Tag: Arjuna Awardee

Similarly, hockey players from the State and members of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bronze medal-winning Indian team Birendra Lakra and Amit Rohidas were conferred with the Arjuna Award from the President of India.

New Delhi: Former Indian football skipper Subrata Paul has refused to appear for a confirmatory ‘B sample testing in the stipulated time frame and has sought more time to prepare his defence before the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). Paul, who had flunked an out-of-competition dope test on March 18 in Mumbai, was set a deadline […]

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has approved the names of five eminent sportspersons, including cricketer Harbhajan Singh, as members of the state’s sports institute’s governing council. All sportspersons, to be part of the Punjab Institute of Sports’ (PIS) governing council are from different disciplines of sports, an official spokesperson said on Saturday. Other sportspersons, […]

Rourkela: Legendary hockey player and Arjuna Awardee Michael Kindo passed away at the age of 74 at Ispat General Hospital (IGH) here in the steel city on Thursday. Just when people thought that the year 2020 could not be any ominous, Kindo, a member of the Indian hockey team that won the World Cup in […]