India’s Asian Games squad for Indonesia is set to go up after the sports ministry asked the Olympic body to ease norms for those events or athletes who have a realistic chance of doing well. read more

Apart from Jitu Rai, the three other shooters dropped from the TOP Scheme are Yashaswini Deswal, Amanpreet Singh and Neeraj Kumar. read more

A surprise bronze medallist at Rio Olympics two years ago, Sakshi Malik is confident she has enough fight in her to compete at world level and mount a strong challenge at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. read more

Indian hockey team will open its Asian Games title defence against minnows Hong Kong China on August 22 followed by games against Japan (August 24), Korea (August 26) and Sri Lanka (August 28) read more

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat outclassed Canada’s Natasha Fox 10-0 in the final to claim her second consecutive gold. She had won a gold at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games too. read more

The Asian Games torch was lit by IOA president Narinder Batra on Sunday, who also said that there will not be any change to the 524-member squad for the quadrennial event. read more

Rani Rampal, who will lead the Indian women’s national hockey team at the World Cup and Asian Games, has used her hockey career to help lift her financially struggling family as well. read more

Talking about the performance of the young generation of women boxers, Mary Kom said it was ‘unfortunate’ that the girls were not able to win medals at Gold Coast. read more

Actor Neetu Chandra is unhappy with the way taekwondo players are being treated. read more

While Rupinder Pal Singh returned to the India men’s hockey side in place of Jarmanpreet Singh, Akashdeep Singh replaced an injured Ramandeep Singh for the Asian Games, scheduled to take place from August 18 to September 2, 2018. read more

Renu, a triple jumper who brought laurels for Punjab by winning medals in athletics at different platforms, never knew that her dreams will be short-lived as the Punjab Athletics Association (PAA) didn’t recommend her name to the Athletics Federation... read more

While the Indian women’s hockey team will be led by Rani Rampal at the Asian Games, experienced goalkeeper Savita has been named as the vice captain. read more

Foreign coaches hired by India will be assessed by the performances of their wards at the Jakarta Asian Games and those not deliveries will be let go, Sports India said on Thursday. read more

The Indian men’s and women’s football teams will not be travelling to the Asian Games in Indonesia because they are “unlikely” to win medals. read more

Harendra Singh, who returned to coach India men’s hockey team for a record fourth time, could not have asked for a better start to his new stint as India excelled in almost all areas before losing to world champions Australia via penalty shoot-out in... read more