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NEW DELHI: India's star javelin thrower Chopra is likely to get a promotion in the Indian Army for creating history by ending the country's agonising wait for the first athletics gold medal…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday congratulated Neeraj Chopra for winning India's first Olympic gold medal in athletics. Chopra, who is a Subedar with 4 Rajputana Rifles in the…

'Koi kasar nahin chodenge’ -- will spare no effort. That was the last text Neeraj Chopra exchanged with one of his support group at Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS) in Vijayanagar,…

Family used to live in a shack near a drain once, archer picked up a bow to escape povertyNEW DELHI: For most of his life, archer Pravin Jadhav lived in a shack near a drain in the…

It was the race of his life but at the end of it, Milkha Singh was simply "distraught". The 91-year-old 'Flying Sikh', who passed away in Chandigarh on Friday after battling COVID-related…

NEW DELHI: As Milkha Singh took position on the track that unforgettable summer day of 1960 when the Olympics were underway in Rome, theatre artist and actor Prithviraj Kapoor organised a…

NEW DELHI: The track, to him, was like an open book in which Milkha Singh found the "meaning and purpose of life". And what a life he made for himself. Before his 91-year-old body lost to…

In our countdown to the Tokyo Olympics we are regularly profiling some of the biggest Indian medal contenders. Today we feature a young wrestler and a race walker who finished in the top 10…