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  Murlikant Petkar, Sucha Singh to be conferred with Arjuna Lifetime Awards 2024

  Other Sports | January 02, 2025 16:19 IST

  The legendary para-athlete Murlikant Petkar won the historic Gold medal at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg. He was India's first individual gold medalist in the Paralympic Games history,

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  National Sports Awards 2024: Complete list of recipients of Khel Ratna, Arjuna, Dronacharya awards

  Other Sports | January 02, 2025 16:27 IST

  Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced the National Sports Awards 2024 today. Manu Bhaker, Harmanpreet Singh and Gukesh D are among the Khel Ratna award recipients. Here's the complete list of Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dronacharya award winners

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  Sunil Chhetri, football's first Khel Ratna awardee, says it has been a dream journey

  Football | November 03, 2021 18:40 IST

  The first footballer to be conferred with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, Indian maestro Sunil Chhetri on Wednesday said the journey that he has been through in the last 16 years has been nothing short of a dream.

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  Honoured to be awarded Khel Ratna: Neeraj Chopra

  Other Sports | November 03, 2021 17:53 IST

  Named for the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna after winning a historic gold in the Tokyo Olympics, star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra said.

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  Manpreet Singh, Sunil Chhetri to get Khel Ratna

  Hockey | November 02, 2021 23:35 IST

  Manpreet was originally recommended for the Arjuna award but he joined veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh as the second hockey player in the list of awardees for the highest sporting honour.

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  Dope violators eligible for national sports awards if ban period served: sports ministry

  Other Sports | September 08, 2021 15:55 IST

  A decision that will benefit the likes of boxer Amit Panghal, whose 'inadvertent' violation in 2012 has denied him a shot at the honours.

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  Devendra Jhajharia, Venkatesh Prasad named in National Sports Awards selection committee

  Other Sports | September 08, 2021 11:07 IST

  Jhajharia won a silver medal at the recent Tokyo Games, adding to the two gold medals he had won in the 2004 and 2016 editions.

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  List of National Sports Award winners 2020

  Other Sports | August 29, 2020 14:32 IST

  Following is the list of National Sports Award winners for the year 2020.

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  Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju announces increase in prize money for National Sports Awards winners

  Other Sports | August 29, 2020 11:48 IST

  Rijiju made this announcement on the occasion of the 115th birth anniversary of hockey legend Dhyan Chand, which is also celebrated as National Sports Day.

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  Prize money of National Sports Awards set to be hiked: Ministry source

  Other Sports | August 20, 2020 18:20 IST

  Currently, the Khel Ratna comes with a cash prize of Rs 7.5 lakh, while the Arjuna awardees get Rs 5 lakh.

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  National Sports Awards likely to be held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Other Sports | August 17, 2020 23:21 IST

  The National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29, the birth anniversary of hockey wizard Dhyan Chand.

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  Virender Sehwag, Sardar Singh in 12-member selection panel for National Sports Awards

  Other Sports | July 31, 2020 16:32 IST

  Just like last year, the ministry opted for a single selection committee to pick the awardees among both athletes and coaches and it will be headed by Retired Supreme Court Justice, Mukundakam Sharma.

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  National Sports Awards: Ministry extends deadline till June 22; allows self-nomination

  Other Sports | June 03, 2020 15:01 IST

  The relaxation offers a window of opportunities for those athletes who have neither been shortlisted by their national sports federations nor got the backing of previous awardees.

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  Sports ministry invites nominations for national sports awards

  Other Sports | May 05, 2020 15:19 IST

  The last date for filing the nominations for national sports awards is June 3.

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  COVID-19 pandemic delays process of National Sports Awards, ministry to invite applications in May

  Other Sports | April 26, 2020 18:29 IST

  The ministry generally invites the nominations for the awards in April while the ceremony to confer them is held on August 29 on the occasion of National Sports Day celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand.

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates National Sports Awards winners

  Other Sports | September 26, 2018 17:41 IST

  In a series of tweets, the Prime Minister congratulated all the athletes and coaches who have been conferred with the awards.

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  BCCI congratulates Virat Kohli and Smriti Mandhana for bagging national awards

  Cricket | September 25, 2018 22:30 IST

  They were bestowed with the award in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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  From Salman Khan buffs to 'ghar ki lassi', National Sports awardees display candor on fans' questions

  Other Sports | September 25, 2018 20:20 IST

  The National Awardees came together to reply to their fans in on a variety of subjects.

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  President gives away National Sports Awards

  Other Sports | August 30, 2014 7:06 IST

  New Delh: With a Khel Ratna missing for the first time in two decades, President Pranab Mukherjee gave away the National Sports Awards during a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here Friday.For the first

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  Intense lobbying by Poonia delays national sports awards

  Other Sports | August 20, 2013 23:04 IST

  New Delhi: Intense lobbying for getting female discus thrower Krishna Poonia the Khel Ratna, the highest sports award, delayed the scheduled announcement of the national sports awards here on Tuesday.The ministry was supposed to make