I’m closing in on world-beater Zhou: Russian weightlifter
August 16th, 2012 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian weightlifter Tatiana Kashirina Thursday said she is satisfied with her Olympic silver medal because her performance took her one step closer to beating her ... Read more...
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Russian lifter mysteriously pulls out of Olympics
August 4th, 2012 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian weightlifter Dmitry Klokov has withdrawn from the Olympics for unspecified medical reasons, the country's sports minister said Saturday.Klokov, a Beijing silver medallist, was expected ... Read more...
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Olympic weightlifting: Polish underdog bags gold
August 4th, 2012 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 4 (IANS) Poland's Adrian Edward Zielinski has won the gold medal in weightlifting men's 85kg category with a total of 385kg.Zielinski, 23, standing in the third place ... Read more...
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Olympic weightlifting: Podobedova lifts Kazakhstan to gold
August 4th, 2012 - 12:52 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Svetlana Podobedova won Olympic gold for Kazakhstan by the narrowest of margins here Friday, edging out Russia's Natalya Zabolotnaya in the women's 75 kg weightlifting ... Read more...
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Olympic weightlifting: Record-breaker Lu lifts gold
August 2nd, 2012 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) China's Lu Xiaojun broke two of his own world records as he took the Olympic gold in the men's 77 kg weightlifting category here.Lu Xiaojun ... Read more...
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China’s Li lifts Olympic gold in 58 kg, breaks record
July 31st, 2012 - 1:44 am ICT by IANS
London, July 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) China's Li Xueying won women's weightlifting gold in the 58kg category Monday, setting two Olympic records.Li, twice former world champion, set records in the snatch ... Read more...
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Olympics: North Korea’s Om wins gold with record lift
July 30th, 2012 - 2:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Korea's Om Yun Chol took men's 56 kg weightlifting gold at the London Olympics Sunday after joining a small group of athletes who have ... Read more...
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Albanian lifter banned from London for steroids
July 28th, 2012 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku has been excluded from the London Olympics after testing positive for steroids, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Saturday.The 20-year-old failed ... Read more...
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FDI in multi-brand retail will lift mood: Economic advisor
June 13th, 2012 - 12:05 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, June 12 (IANS) Opening up the multi-brand retail sector to foreign direct investment(FDI) would lift the economic mood and largely benefit farmers and small exporters, the government's top economist said ... Read more...
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Police bust bike-lifter gang in Gurgaon
June 1st, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, June 1 (IANS) The Special Cell of Gurgaon police arrested four people, including two final year college students, on charges of lifting two-wheelers, police said Friday.The police also recovered ... Read more...
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South Korea aims 10 gold medals at London Olympics
April 19th, 2012 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
Seoul, April 19 (IANS) South Korea aims to capture more than 10 gold medals for a top-10 finish in the London Olympics, with hopes running high after the country's superlative ... Read more...
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Mob protests woman’s rescue, three killed
October 19th, 2011 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Oct 19 (IANS) Three villagers in Bihar were killed in a clash with police as they were protesting the rescue of a suspected woman thief by the police, authorities ... Read more...
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Overlooked for Arjuna, lifter Renubala returns CWG gold
July 25th, 2011 - 10:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Disappointed at being overlooked for an Arjuna Award, weightlifter Renubala Chanu Monday returned her 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) gold medal to the sports ministry saying ... Read more...
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Chinese village kids dream of Olympic weightlifting
April 19th, 2011 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 19 (IANS) In an age when most teenagers in China spend their spare time playing football or ping-pong, a group of village school kids have chosen weightlifting as ... Read more...
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I bowled my best ball to dismiss Tendulkar: Rampaul
March 21st, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, March 21 (IANS) West Indies fast bowler Ravi Rampaul says he bowled the best ball of his cricketing career to get rid of Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar ... Read more...
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Punter can’t keep gambling on costly hook: Roebuck
November 19th, 2010 - 5:47 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Nov.19 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting would need to be mindful of not repeating his weakness for impulsively hooking the short ball when he squares up against England in the ... Read more...
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Chinese lifter Li breaks two world records at Asian Games
November 14th, 2010 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Gunagzhou, Nov 14 (IANS) Chinese lifter Li Ping broke the snatch and total world records in the women's 53kg event at the 16th Guangzhou Asiad.Li snatched 103kg in her third attempt, one ... Read more...
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CWG Weightlifting: Chanu, Kumar win gold, set Games record (Roundup)
October 6th, 2010 - 10:56 pm ICT by IANS
By Bharat Sharma
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Weightlifters Renu Bala Chanu and K. Ravi Kumar won gold medal in the 58kg and 69kg category respectively and made the victory sweeter by setting ... Read more...
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Silver medalist Chanu sad after missing the Gold in CWG
October 5th, 2010 - 8:07 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi. Oct. 5 (ANI): Indian weightlifter Soniya Chanu, who won silver medal in the 48-kilograms women's weightlifting category on the first day of the Commonwealth Games, is dejected since she failed ... Read more...
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Indian weightlifting coach rues missing gold
October 5th, 2010 - 1:06 am ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Weightlifting coach Harnam Singh is not a happy man despite India winning four medals on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games Monday and feels ... Read more...
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Bag-lifter caught in Delhi shopping mall
September 23rd, 2010 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) The Delhi Police's "Eyes and Ears Scheme" bore fruit Thursday when a woman accused of bag-lifting was arrested from a mall in Saket locality here.
"Her photographs were ... Read more...
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Mentally challenged woman lynched in Bihar
August 4th, 2010 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Aug 4 (IANS) A mentally challenged woman, suspected of being a child lifter, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks, bricks and stones by a mob in Bihar's Munger district Wednesday ... Read more...
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Suspended weightlifting coach denies allegations of sexual harassment
July 26th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
By Sunil SharmaPatiala (Punjab)/ New Delhi, July 26 (ANI): Suspended Indian weightlifting coach Ramesh Malhotra has denied the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by Olympic bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari.The ... Read more...
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Police hunt for alleged truck-lifter lawmaker
January 20th, 2010 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Jan 20 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh police Wednesday carried out searches at various places to arrest a Samajwadi Party legislator, Sultan Beg, the alleged mastermind of a truck-lifters' gang.
Searches were carried ... Read more...
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Third lifter fails dope test, Indian federation in soup
October 13th, 2009 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was in deep trouble Tuesday after it turned out that a third lifter, Priyadarshini, too has tested positive in a screening test ... Read more...
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Indians assaulted in Nepal over kidnap fears
April 22nd, 2009 - 2:40 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 22 (IANS) About a dozen Indians were detained by locals in southern Nepal Wednesday and thrashed severely on the suspicion that they were kidnappers.
Six of the victims were taken to ... Read more...
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First woman co-pilot to fly largest aircraft of Indian Air Force (Repeating for all needing)
March 5th, 2009 - 2:46 pm ICT by IANS
Nagpur, March 5 (IANS) One more gender barrier fell to the determination of women as Squadron Leader Veena Saharan became the first woman co-pilot to fly one of the mightiest and heaviest ... Read more...
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NASA may struggle to afford new space missions
November 30th, 2008 - 1:51 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 30 (ANI): A new report by a US National Research Council panel has indicated that the huge tag prices attached to NASA''s proposed space missions will make it difficult ... Read more...
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Report on Monika Devi’s dope test issue submitted
September 12th, 2008 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Retired chief election commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy Friday submitted his findings into the dope test issue of weightlifter Monika Devi to Sports Minister M.S. Gill.Krishnamurthy was appointed by ... Read more...
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Manipur students protest dope charge against wrestler Monika Devi
September 11th, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Imphal, Sept 11 (ANI): Hundreds of students took to the streets here on Wednesday to demand a fair probe into the doping charges against weightlifter Monika Devi, who was denied a ... Read more...
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Pak, the world leader in stolen cars business!
August 18th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug 18 (ANI): On an average cars worth Rs one billion are stolen every month in Pakistan, said a report of the countrys Interior Ministry, and added that cars of ... Read more...
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Lifter Jaroenrattanatarakoon attributes her gold to name change
August 10th, 2008 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Aug 10 (Xinhua) William Shakespeare might have said "what's in a name", but Thai weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon who won her country's first gold medal at the Olympics Sunday thinks otherwise. In ... Read more...
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Monika cannot compete in Beijing:IOA
August 9th, 2008 - 11:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Saturday stressed that Monika Devi cannot join the Olympics contingent even as it was reported that she has been cleared of the ... Read more...
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Indian contingent against replacement for Monica
August 6th, 2008 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
By V. Krishnaswamy
Beijing, Aug 6 (IANS) The Indian contingent in Beijing is in no mood to have a replacement for the withdrawn weightlifter Monica Devi, despite pressure from some quarters to rope ... Read more...
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Weightlifter Harpreet banned for testing positive
July 24th, 2008 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Thursday banned Harpreet Singh, who tested positive for a banned substance nandrolone. The Punjab weightlifter, in the 85 kg category, is the ... Read more...
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