Senior Sports Correspondent at @PTI_News. I write on boxing, weightlifting and swimming.
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Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress.
Working hard for something we love is called passion.
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“Ek kachori, do samosa…
In mardon ka kya bharosa..."
How safe is a cricket match in India for women, especially the late-night games?
Several women fans/reporters open up about their thoughts about a topic that hardly (anyone?) Is spoken about.
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A faction of BFI having a press conference, claiming support of 8 of 13 Executive body members, including sec gen Pramod Kumar and treasurer Pon Baskaran on dais. A show of strength against BFI president Ajay Singh.SGM called off on court order but boxing governance is in crisis.
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The condition of Bhagwan Mahaveer Marg, sector B, Vasant Kunj. Please see the quality of pavement work & the adjoining road. The divider is broken too. Under so called repair for months now. Dust all around, #Pollution. @DelhiPwd @MCD_Delhi @p_sahibsingh @CMODelhi @gupta_rekha
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At the rate at which states are awarding crores to bronze winners also in the Asian Games, doping will increase manifold! @NADAIndiaOffice will have to do extra work, not just in "education"!
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News Alert ! Indian boxer Priya Ghanghas signs off with a bronze medal after losing her 60kg semifinal 1-4 to China's Yang Chengyu at the Asian Games
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VIDEO | Patiala: India's women's boxing team head coach Santiago Nieva said that their goal at the Asian Games will be to win an elusive gold medal.
The great MC Mary Kom remains the only Indian woman boxer to win an Asian Games gold, having claimed the 51kg title in 2014.
"Last couple of Asian Games we have not won a gold medal, so that's our goal, to get gold medals. We know it's very tough, but we have a team who is strong enough to be able to be there," Nieva said.
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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STORY | Have I taken away his childhood? Seema's Asiad dream and mother's guilt
Every time Seema Kaliramna's four-year-old son tells her how much he misses being around her, the Indian discus thrower is left wondering if the price of her sporting dreams has been his childhood.
(Report By: Aparajita Upadhyay)
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Let's do a sprint in Monaco: said no driver ever.
Save the date 🗓️
The 2027 FIA Formula One World Championship Calendar is here 🏁
The Portuguese Grand Prix and Turkish Grand Prix return to the calendar, while the number of Sprint events increases to 10!
22 countries. 24 Grands Prix. 10 Sprints. One World Championship 🏆
#FIA #F1
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Asian Games 2026: Parveen Hooda returns to Asiad with lost Hangzhou medal on her mind
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VIDEO | Patiala: Boxer Parveen Hooda is heading back to the Asian Games chasing a medal she once won but can no longer call her own, hoping to replace the bronze taken away from her due to a ban with another podium finish.
The Indian pugilist won that bronze in the 57kg category in the Hangzhou Games in 2023, along with an Olympic quota for India, only to lose both after being handed a suspension.
Since then, Parveen's comeback has involved one adjustment after another -- a new weight class, a coupe of injuries, another move up and a quarterfinal exit at the Commonwealth Games.
"Of course, yes," Parveen told when asked if she has unfinished business at the Asian Games.
The bronze has been gone for nearly two years. The memory of winning it has not, nor has the feeling of what followed.
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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I genuinely don’t understand how we are supposed to casually process that a glacier literally collapsed in Nepal, erasing 19 bridges and killing over 600 people, because the planet is too hot. And instead of stopping it, billionaires are building more data centres. It is completely psychotic.
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#DelhiKoKudeSeAzaadi @MCD_Delhi @CMODelhi @LtGovDelhi. Condition of pavements and road leading up to Chinmaya Vidyalaya and four others schools in Vasant Vihar. It's full of filth thanks to garbage and stray animal waste all around.
From tears after the high jump pull out to historic bronze.
Four days changed everything for Tejaswin Shankar, who became the first Indian to win a Commonwealth Games medal in the decathlon.🥉
#CommonwealthGames #Glasgow2026 #TejaswinShankar
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Pakistan's first female Commonwealth Games boxing medallist Fatima Zahra says India's Mary Kom inspired her to box
My story for @PTI_News
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STORY | The gold her father never saw: Asmita Dey's journey from tragic loss to history
The first person judoka Asmita Dey wanted to tell about her Commonwealth Games gold was the one person she no longer could do it.
READ: ptinews.com/story/sports/the…
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VIDEO | Glasgow, Scotland: Indian boxer Arundhati Choudhary, who defeated defending champion Rosie Eccles of Wales 4-0 to enter the women's 70kg final at the Commonwealth Games, says, "I expected that the 70kg category would have strong as well as technically skilled boxers. My opponents are putting a lot of pressure on me, so that has become a challenge and a target for me. But I am trying my best to perform well in such situations too, and the results have been good."
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)