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CWG medallist shuttler Sumeeth Reddy retires
The 33-year-old from Hyderabad, who formed the men’s doubles pair with Manu Attri and also played mixed doubles with several shuttlers, including his wife N Sikki Reddy, made the announcement through social media on Sunday
25 March,2025 08:39 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Priyanka walks into new record
India’s Commonwealth Games silver medallist race walker Goswami sets national mark in 35km event at Slovakia
24 March,2025 07:47 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
‘Time to give my racquet and bandana some rest’
He also had the honour of carrying India’s flag at the Paris Olympics last year
06 March,2025 07:55 AM IST | Chennai | PTI
India interested in hosting 2030 CWG; wants to conduct axed disciplines
India last hosted the CWG in 2010. The ministry's push to have the axed events of the 2026 edition in India is a way to ensure that the CWG remains a high medal-yielding competition for the country
21 February,2025 07:12 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Sports budget raised by over Rs 350 crore, Khelo India gets biggest share
The ambitious scheme has been allocated Rs 1,000 crore for the financial year 2025-26. This is Rs 200 crore more than the grant of Rs 800 crore in 2024-25
01 February,2025 02:52 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Exclusion of major sports disappointing but reduced cost of 2026 CWG is good
"Historically, CWG featured around 10 sports and since 1998, programme has expanded to include 15 to 20 sports, and flexibility in future will be crucial for hosts," PT Usha
24 October,2024 05:02 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Very bad decision to exclude badminton from CWG: Chirag
The 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Tuesday unveiled a heavily scaled-down roster, excluding hockey, shooting, cricket, badminton and wrestling from the curriculum, a move which will severely hurt India’s medal prospects at the quadrennial event
24 October,2024 07:48 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Harmanpreet rues hockey’s ouster
It is not in our hands and we can’t think about it and at present, the two matches [against Germany] are important for us”
23 October,2024 06:30 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Very disappointing to see shooting left out, says Gagan Narang
This will be a very different Commonwealth Games with many popular Olympic sports not included in what will be a watered-down version of the Games,” the NRAI said in a statement
23 October,2024 06:30 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
CWG 2026 | "Need time to think about that": Craig Fulton on omission of hockey
Indian men's hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh shared his views on the sport's exclusion from the Commonwealth Games 2026. Field hockey's exclusion means the sport will be missing from the event for the first time since its CWG debut in 1998
22 October,2024 10:16 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent