Haryana Police to give Rs. 51 lakh to Yogeshwar Dutt
August 23rd, 2012 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 23 (IANS) Haryana Police will give a cash reward of Rs.51 lakh to wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt who recently won a bronze medal at the London Olympics in ... Read more...
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President felicitates Olympic medal winners
August 18th, 2012 - 5:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee congratulated India's Olympic medal winners at a felicitation ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Saturday, hoping for a 'medal spring' at the ... Read more...
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Lok Sabha hails Olympic medal winners
August 13th, 2012 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Monday congratulated Olympic medal winners Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt and MC Mary Kom for bringing glory to the nation.While ... Read more...
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Prince Henry plays volleyball in Brazil
March 11th, 2012 - 8:53 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 11 (IANS) Prince Henry of Wales participated in a flurry of sporting activities Saturday in his first visit to Brazil.His activities began by introducing the Sport ... Read more...
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Youth Olympic medal winners to get cash rewards
August 28th, 2010 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) announced cash rewards of Rs.400,000 for silver medallists and Rs.200,000 for bronze medal winners of the inaugural edition of the Youth Olympics ... Read more...
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Stringent, transparent norms for national sports awards
March 17th, 2010 - 8:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The sports ministry Wednesday made sweeping changes in the process of selection for national sports awards, making the norms more stringent and transparent. At the same ... Read more...
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Indian Army winds up its ‘Mission Olympics’
April 5th, 2009 - 5:19 pm ICT by IANS
By Ritu Sharma
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Indian Army's ambitious sports initiative launched three years ago to groom youngsters into potential Olympic medal winners has bitten the dust.The army's 'Mission Olympics ... Read more...
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Learning judo with Vladimir Putin
October 7th, 2008 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
St. Petersburg, Oct 7 (RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has presented his judo tutorial video, 'Learning Judo with Vladimir Putin,' here.The instructional video released Tuesday is a supplement to a ... Read more...
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Sports ministry awards Olympic medal winners with cash prize
September 18th, 2008 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Olympic medal winners Abhinav Bindra, Sushil Kumar and Vijender Singh were awarded cash prizes by Union Sports minster M.S. Gill here Thursday.Shooter Bindra, who became India's first ... Read more...
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Indian Olympic medal winners’ tryst with children
September 8th, 2008 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) "How did you feel after winning the Olympics medal?" "Are you getting help from the government?" - these posers came not from journalists, but from school children Monday. ... Read more...
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Olympic medal winners receive tumultuous welcome at airport
August 26th, 2008 - 2:36 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Thousands of wildly cheering fans descended on the Indira Gandhi International Airport to give Olympic bronze medal winners, wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Vijender Singh, a tumultuous ... Read more...
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Haryana doubles prize money for Olympic medal winners
July 29th, 2008 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, July 29 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Tuesday announced that the award money for medal winners from the state in the Beijing Olympic games would be doubled. Any sportsperson ... Read more...
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Limca Book of Records launches special Olympic edition
May 20th, 2008 - 8:36 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) With the Beijing Olympics slated to be held in August, the Limca Book of Records Tuesday launched its 19th edition with a special section on the four ... Read more...
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