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Confident Of Putting Up A Good Show In Tokyo Olympics: Dutee Chand
Bhubaneswar: Ace woman sprinter Dutee Chand, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday on the basis of her world rankings, said she is confident of putting up a good show at the mega…
Jhili Wins Gold In Asian Weightlifting C’ship, Odisha CM Sends Best Wishes
Bhubaneswar: Promising weightlifter of Odisha Jhili Dalabehera won gold in the Asian Weightlifting Championship in women’s event held at Tashkent in Uzbekistan on Sunday.
Jhili won the…
[Watch] Eight-Month Pregnant Athlete Wins Gold Medal In Taekwondo
The video of a Nigerian athlete Aminat Idrees who bagged a gold medal in Taekwondo while eight months pregnant during her country’s National Sports Festival is going viral. The video on…
Real Life Women Sportspersons Who Have Been The Muse Of Hindi Filmmakers
Female sportspersons have been Bollywood's muse in the last few years. This year too, it has set the ball rolling with filmmaker Amol Gupte releasing the biographical film Saina based on…
Eight Members Of Indian Boxing Squad Test COVID-19 Positive In Turkey
New Delhi: Eight members of an Indian boxing squad, including three pugilists, tested positive for COVID-19 during a competition trip to Turkey. They have been quarantined in Istanbul,…
KIIT Student & Tokyo Olympics Fencing Qualifier Felicitated In Odisha Capital
Bhubaneswar: India will be sending its fencers to Olympics for the first time ever. Representing the country in 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Fencing will be CA Bhavani Devi, a product of KIIT…
Tokyo Olympics 2021 To Be Held Sans Foreign Spectators
The Japanese government has decided to stage Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2021 without overseas spectators due to COVID-19, Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday, citing officials with…
Odisha Emerge Runners-Up In National T20 Meet For Blind
Bengaluru: Odisha team went down to Andhra Pradesh by 80 runs in the final of the third Nagesh Trophy National T20 Cricket tournament for the blind to bag the runners-up cup on Tuesday.…
Odisha Naval Tata Hockey HPC Commences Boys’ Resident Programme
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre (HPC) commenced its boys’ resident programme at Kalinga Hockey Complex here on Friday.
Set-up in state capital to groom…
Skier Ranjita Behera To Represent Odisha In 2nd Khelo India Winter Games
Bhubaneswar: The snow girl of Odisha, Ranjita Behera, will be representing the state in 2nd Khelo India National Winter Games, 2021.
She will be participating in the Alpine Ski. The games…