Olympics

Following her retirement, Usha decided to change the lack in sports system and envisioned an institute dedicated to advancing promotion and practice of sports at possible levels with state-of-the-art facilities in athletic skill development.

M. Bhavani is among the 26 girls who got selected to be a part of the National Hockey Academy.

Four special-needs girls have overcome great odds and difficult circumstances to represent India at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria, and win medals too. Barnali Das finds out more about these intrepid sportswomen.

Freestyle wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt publicly denounced the practice of dowry for his upcoming wedding, winning hearts of people across the country.

With Bollywood undergoing a biopic boom of sorts, its time the incredibly inspiring stories of these 8 Indian sports heroes were told on the silver screen.

Olympic athlete Krishna Poonia recently turned into a superhero when she chased down men who were harassing two girls in Churu district of Rajasthan.

Not many of us would know much about a sport like fencing in India. A few others probably wouldn’t even have heard of it. For Bhavani Devi, the 22-year-old resident of Chennai who is India’s National Fencing Champion, it is more than a sport.

Tenith Adithyaa, an 18-year-old innovator has written an open letter to the Prime Minister talking about the crucial steps that can help improve the condition of sports in India, and how he wants to contribute.

The Indian Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has announced that athletes winning gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics will receive the same cash prize from the government as Olympic medallists.

A tiny village called Nibi in UP is nurturing the dreams of 18 young girls who, inspired by Sakshi Malik's bronze medal winning performance at the Rio Olympics, hope to bring laurels to India too some day.