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Sports Ministry announces internship programme with Rs 5.30 crore annual outlay, 452 paid positions across key sports bodies

December 25, 2025 9:36 am

The internship programme will follow two recruitment cycles every year, scheduled in January and July. Selected interns will undergo structured onboarding, receive mentorship from domain experts and gain exposure to policy formulation and implementation within the sports administration framework.

Country No 1 on doping list must clean up

India is No 1 on global doping list. It must clean up

December 22, 2025 7:21 am

This is a systemic failure that threatens to impact India’s ambitious bid for the 2036 Olympics.

The WADA report comes months after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) raised the doping issue when an Indian delegation visited Lausanne to make a pitch to host the 2036 Olympics.

India's dubious hat-trick: Country No. 1 in the world for dope cheats

December 18, 2025 8:36 am

A total of 260 athletes tested positive in 2024 out of 7,113 samples collected by NADA

Reetika medal: Wrestler Reetika Hooda poses with the 'Paris Olympics Qualifier' medal at her home in Rohtak. (Credit: Gajendra Yadav)

Reetika Hooda, who made history as India’s top heavyweight wrestler, suspended for doping

July 08, 2025 7:40 pm

Reetika Hooda was handed a provisional suspension on July 7 after her sample, collected by the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) during the selection trials in New Delhi, returned positive.

'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.

100m runner who ran alone in infamous Delhi meet now fails dope test

December 06, 2023 6:31 pm

All other runners in 100m final had fled after seeing NADA officials and now the only one to appear has failed a drug test

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Doping is not the seedy underbelly of Indian sport — it's an open secret

September 27, 2023 10:57 pm

Express View: At the core of this corruption is encouragement of coaches and parents for quick-fixes, and the lethargy of India's anti-doping machinery

NADA Test: Jadeja most tested Indian cricketer so far in 2023, 58 samples collected in first 5 months

August 09, 2023 5:05 pm

Altogether 55 cricketers (male and female, 58 samples) underwent dope testing in the first five months of this year, with more than half of the samples taken 'Out Of Competition' (OOC), according to a recent list put up by the NADA on its website

Dipa Karmakar is currently serving a doping ban

Dope offender Dipa Karmakar's return to training camp as per WADA rules, says gymnastics federation

May 19, 2023 12:09 am

Regulations allow Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth at the Olympics, to join two months before suspension ends.

Banned Botswana runner Nijel Amos says selling 'famous' Olympic silver medal

May 11, 2023 2:39 pm

The Athletics Integrity Unit said it banned Amos for three years on May 3 after an out-of-competition test detected a banned metabolite in his urine sample. The ban was reduced from four years after Amos signed an admission, it added.