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Wrestling World Championship Trials: Sujeet Kalkal brings sharp counter-attacking speed to stacked 65kg field ahead of Worlds
August 05, 2025 3:10 pm
Channeling his disappointment of missing Paris Olympics into building a game of increased strength and speed at Sonepat, 22-year-old has taken over the baton from Bajrang Punia after success at Budapest ranking series
Bajrang Punia joins Hulk Hogan's Real American Freestyle wrestling promotion
July 10, 2025 7:21 pm
Bajrang will be fighting in the debut event of the promotion called 'Real American Freestyle 01' or 'RAF01' in Cleveland on 30th August.
Vladimir Mestvirishvili, the Georgian coach who devoted his life to Indian wrestling and produced four Olympic medalists, passes away
June 24, 2025 9:01 am
Twice Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, bronze winners Yogeshwar Dutt and Bajrang Punia, and Tokyo Games silver medallist Ravi Dahiya were his products.
Bajrang Punia issues unconditional apology to wrestling coach Naresh Dahiya amid defamation case
May 29, 2025 7:33 pm
The Tokyo Games bronze medallist Bajrang, along with Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik, had led a protest against Singh, accusing him of sexual harassment of several junior women wrestlers.
'If I join the BJP then I think all my bans will be lifted': Bajrang Punia reacts to NADA suspension
November 27, 2024 6:49 pm
The wrestler also said that this was the government's way of getting back at him for his involvement in the protest against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP politician.
NADA suspends Bajrang Punia for four years for violation of anti-doping code
November 27, 2024 11:06 am
NADA had first suspended the Tokyo Games bronze medallist wrestler on April 23 for the offence following which, the World Governing body UWW had also suspended him.
‘No ad hoc committee formed to run WFI despite order’: Bajrang Punia, wrestlers move Delhi High Court
November 13, 2024 1:47 pm
The wrestlers have now sought directions to appoint an independent administrator to run the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). The plea comes after the Delhi HC directed the reconstitution of the ad hoc committee of the Indian Olympic Association.
Sakshi Malik on Wrestlers' Protest: 'People close to Vinesh and Bajrang started filling their minds with greed'
October 22, 2024 8:45 pm
Sakshi Malik also alleged former Commonwealth Games gold medallist-turned-BJP politician Babita Phogat for not having the best interests of the wrestlers.
In Bajrang Punia's village, people unimpressed about his politics debut but Vinesh finds sympathy
September 23, 2024 5:23 am
Villagers, fellow wrestlers feel Punia should have worked to “guide” youngsters instead of joining the Congress, say his entry will not “add any votes” to the party’s kitty.
Julana welcomes their bahu, 'In Vinesh, we will elect a minister not an MLA'
September 09, 2024 8:41 am
On Brij Bhushan's claims that India could have won more medals, Vinesh said, “If I could, I would have brought the medal.
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Breakfast with Modi: Indian Olympians meet PM day after attending Independence Day celebrations
August 16, 2021 2:38 pm
A day after praising them from the ramparts of the Red Fort in his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the Indian athletes who participated in the Olympics and made India proud.
A notch above others: Standout Indian athletes of the decade
December 31, 2019 3:44 pm
The 2010s were arguably Indian sport's most successful decade ever as they registered their best ever medal tallies at various respective sporting extravaganzas.
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