Kabaddi  

Responding to supplementaries during the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the minister of state for youth affairs and sports Kiren Rijiju said kabaddi is an indigenous sport and that the government would make efforts to take it to the Olympics

The Government of India Takes Various Initiatives to Popularise Kabaddi. The sports facilities of Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior and Guwahati have been made available free of cost for sports including Kabaddi for organizing training programmes and sporting events.

Sports presenter and the man behind Pro Kabaddi League, Charu Sharma spoke on Indian cricket team’s success under Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni’s future and Sourav Ganguly’s new innings as BCCI president. Watch this exclusive interview on MyNation

Rohit Sharma continued to break records as a Test opener. He struck his maiden Test double ton in the third Test against South Africa in Ranchi. Bengal Warriors won their maiden Pro Kabaddi title. All this and more in MyNation’s Sportstop weekly review show (October 14 to 20)

It was an evenly matched contest in the first five minutes of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) 2019 as both teams were tied at 3-3. Rajnish and Athul MS opened their teams’ account with a raid point each in the first minute. U Mumba defence marshalled by Fazel “Sultan” Attrachali kept Telugu Titans’ star man Siddharth “Bahubali” Desai quiet for majority of the first half

On the screening days, between 7 pm and 10 pm, two back-to-back matches will be screened for the viewers on a single ticket. The matches will be screened live in INOX multiplexes in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Vadodara and Surat

The Haryana Steelers franchise, which has appointed former India captain Rakesh Kumar as their head coach, also named the vastly experienced Dharmaraj Cheralathan as captain, and will count on the 44-year-old’s immense experience and understanding of the game to lead them to the playoffs and beyond this season

The seventh season of Pro Kabbadi will start in July. The organisers have announced the start date and also a new match time. Last season was won by Bengaluru Bulls. This time too 12 teams will participate

With the year drawing to a close, let us turn the pages backward and look at instances when our favourite teams from different sports bit the dust 

Kabaddi coach in Karnataka was accused of peeping into the girl's room when they were changing clothes. He was recently suspended. The coach committed suicide. Cops found a death note where he apologised to his wife and son.

Shailaja watched her Iranian team standing at the top of the podium, receiving their gold medals at the Asian Games 2018.

Indian women missed out on kabaddi gold as they went down narrowly in a pulsating final against Iran in the ongoing Asian Games on Friday

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It was a nerve-wracking gold medal match with fortunes fluctuating and in the end Iran emerged on top and India had to be satisfied with silver