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The ambitious Khelo India programme 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.  

This story of Indian player will inspire every woman of the country to fight against sexual harassment. This woman cyclist went to Slovenia with a team of Indian players for cycling coaching. During this training camp, the coach of the team misbehaved with her several times.

SAI has now sought a report from the Federation by the end of the day, asking if the sailor had approached them earlier, and if so why the matter was not taken seriously. 

SAI has terminated the contract of the Indian cycling coach RK Sharma with immediate effect. The complainant claimed that the coach forced her to sleep with him.

The complaint alleges that when she resisted, the coach threatened to destroy her career by “removing her from the National Centre of Excellence (NCOE)”, and making sure she would “sell vegetables on the road”

The Cycling Federation of India (CFI) Chairman Onkar Singh told PTI that SAI has made the decision to cut short the training trip. 

The female cyclist has complained against the chief coach The Cycling Federation of India (CFI) stand with the complainantSAI initiates probe into female cyclist's complaint of inappropriate behaviour by chief coach

Abdul Aala Fazili had penned the highly controversial article titled “The shackles of slavery will break” which was published in the Monthly Digital Magazine “The Kashmir Walla” on 6th November 2011. 

Neeraj Chopra will start his preparation for the 2022 World Athletics Championships, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games at the training centre in Chula Vista, San Diego. The state-of-the-art centre, spread over 155 acres, is one of the world's finest training and competition venues.  

Dutch tactician Sjoerd Marijne played a key role in guiding the Rani Rampal-led Indian women's hockey team to a historic fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics recently.

Aditi Ashok on Tuesday became the first female Indian golfer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics.

SAI had conducted Covid-19 RT-PCR tests both in Patiala and for the National Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. Of the 313 tests done in Patiala, 26 were positive while 428 tests were conducted in Bengaluru, and four returned positive. All five athletes are in isolation and will undergo 14 days of quarantine.

The three shuttlers -- Parupalli Kashyap, HS Prannoy and Pranaav Jerry Chopra -- recently attended Guru Sai Dutt's wedding which took place on November 25 in Hyderabad.

Indian shooter Divyansh Singh Panwar has gone into home isolation after being tested positive for the deadly coronavirus that continues to threaten the world.

Indian Army has launched a secure messaging app for its soldiers The newly developed app has been named SAI The new App is safe and has similar features like WhatsApp

Stressing on the importance of fitness among coaches and the decision of SAI to implement the fitness tests, SAI said in a statement, "Sports Authority of India is primarily responsible for the training of athletes through expert coaches. Fitness of coaches is one of the essential ingredients for them to impart fruitful training on the field. Coaches need to maintain a certain level of fitness so as to show the path of progress to the athletes. Therefore, coaches have been advised to undertake the physical fitness assessment as per the protocol twice a year." These fitness tests have been drafted by a committee of experts, who after a detailed discussion and review finalised the fitness protocols for each age group.

Speaking about the significance of the new SAI logo, Rijiju said that SAI has been the leader in the sports ecosystem and the primary agent of promoting sporting excellence. "It has given athletes necessary support so that they have their sporting careers can take-off smoothly and they can fly towards a life of achievements and sporting glory - that is what the flying figure indicates - the freedom an athlete gets to leapfrog his/her career in SAI," expressed Rijiju. Many eminent athletes, coaches and other sports enthusiasts joined the event from across the country through video conference.

Organised by the Sports Ministry, Fit India Freedom Run is the largest country-wide run, which began on August 14 and will go on till October 2. Chirag Shetty's comments came during a recent online interaction organised by he Sports Authority of India (SAI) regional center in Mumbai. The 23-year-old was among 27 sportspersons who were honoured with the prestigious Arjuna Awards in 2020 at the virtual National Sports Awards ceremony last month.

Narsingh has already been named for the national camp, scheduled to begin from September 1 in Sonepat Sushil Kumar and Narsingh may lock horns again for the 74kg category in Olympic qualifiers' trials The Tokyo Olympics is slated to take place from July 23, 2021 to August 8, 2021

The training camp for men will take at the SAI centre in Sonepat and the women training will be held in Lucknow Deepak Punia, Ravi Kumar, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 26 wrestlers in eight weight categories - 5 in freestyle and 3 in Greco-Roman will take part in Sonepat camp