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A 'medal-at-all-costs' mentality, lack of funds, broken anti-doping mechanisms: Why the integrity of Indian sports is under a cloud
April 23, 2026 4:21 pm
This high-risk, high-reward mentality creates a breeding ground for shortcuts. It robs clean, hard-working athletes of glory
WADA to collaborate with CBI as Sports Ministry looks to criminalize doping suppliers
April 16, 2026 9:34 pm
Operation Upstream, a joint CBI-WADA action plan, will target supply chains that move prohibited performance enhancing drugs, and punish coaches, physios of doping athletes
India top the list of suspended track and field athletes due to doping, surpasses Kenya
April 03, 2026 6:05 pm
The Athletics Integrity Unit is an independent anti-doping watchdog established by World Athletics.
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.
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.
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 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
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
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