Players of the state, who won medals in the Olympics, Asian and Commonwealth Games, will no longer have to apply for the state's highest Vikram award.

Main objective of starting the Mukhya Mantri cup is to identify the rural talent, affiliate them with our Sports Academy and prepare them for national and international level competitions.

Students from various schools of the state have made it among the top 3 in the National Medal Tally with their remarkable performance in the national level school sports competitions.

Games are important to move ahead in life. It was possible to win so many medals in international, Olympic and Asian games due to the high morale and dreams of the Indian players.

Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (I/C) has approved the participation of Kho Kho team from India at the First International Kho Kho Championship in England from 1st to 4th September, 2018

participation of maximum students must be ensured in sports competitions to be held in the schools on Khel Diwas.

The BCCI, as expected, has rewarded Kuldeep Yadav for his consistent performances in limited-overs cricket and named him in India's 18-member squad for the first three Tests of the England series.

It may be highlighted that 10 meter, 25 meter shooting range, technical building and 3rd trap besides skeet shooting range have been constructed in Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy located at Bishenkhedi of Bhopal.

The games will mark the onset of a long summer for the Indian team, with sterner tests against England to follow this short series in Malahide on the outskirts of Dublin. England have just hammered Australia in an ODI series and most of their top players are in sublime form.

Four male players of the Madhya Pradesh Water Sports Academy namely Mangal Singh, Nitish Bhardwaj, Rohit Sedhant and Vijaypal Singh will represent India in Junior Asian Rowing event to be held at Chungju, Korea from June 25.

Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country which has made separate arrangements for conducting examination for disabled students.

The battle for the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) home media rights has finally ended with the e-auction coming to a close after a three-way fight between Star India, Sony Pictures Network and Reliance JIO for the past two and half days.

“I want to do well in the Asian Games and win a gold medal there next,” Mirabai Chanu told reporters after bagging gold in women’s 48kg.

The incident took place during the afternoon session and was picked up on by TV cameras. A small, yellow object was seen in Bancroft's hands after he had worked on the ball, and he was also captured taking it from his pocket and placing it down his trousers.

IPL fixtures were announced by the BCCI with the first game being Mumbai Indians taking on Chennai Super Kings.

“Mukhya Mantri Cup” competition is being organized to make better opportunities in national and international competitions available for rural talents of the state and to promote traditional sports.

The Khelo India School Games are being held from 31st January to 8th February, 2018 in New Delhi. Under-17 athletes have been invited to participate across 16 disciplines: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Shooting, Swimming, Volleyball, Weightlifting, and Wrestling.

A total of 90 players from Madhya Pradesh have been selected for the competition. Online application procedure was adopted by the Directorate of Public Instructions to select the players.

"As far as the double headers on weekends are concerned. The 4 pm game will now be played at 5.30 pm. There will be an overlap but the broadcaster says it has enough channels to show the games simultaneously,"

The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, for the overall World Cricketer of the Year, passes from one Indian to another.

Life is like a sport, we should lead life with sportsmanship spirit. Sportsmanship spirit is all right in politics but politics in sports is not good.

India squad: Virat Kohli (c) Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur

England needed to bat close to 70 overs to have any chance of clinging on to the Ashes. They managed to hold on for less than half of that. It was hardly surprising, for the cracks on the pitch made batting really challenging.

Rohit smashed his another double hundred while Chahal grabbed three wickets as India beat Sri Lanka by 141 runs in Mohali.

Rajan said that increasing development in the world has reduced greenery bringing to the fore challenges like global warming, climatic changes etc. Our effort is to make the Earth green once again so that the coming generations find a proper place to live in on the Earth.

The 15-member squad, led by Virat Kohli, sees the return of Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami, while no new faces were introduced as the rest of the team is largely what it was for the last ODI series played by India, against England in January 2017.

Former English women's cricketer Isa Guha made history by becoming the first woman to be on the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) board.

India's spinner produced some special all-round performances in the voting period and finished 2016 as the top ranked Test bowler

India completed a remarkable victory over Australia in the fourth Test by chasing down the 106-run target inside the first session. KL Rahul scored an unbeaten half-century and led India to win with Rahane who made an aggressive 37 runs.

All possible efforts will be made at government level to provide good coaches and resources to refine local talent. He said that MLA is entitle for praise and compliments for organising local game like Kabaddi. He announced for construction of indoor stadium for Kabaddi in Sirmore.

The ICC took a view that the matter was dealt with at the time by umpire Nigel Llong, who ordered Smith leave the ground. No player was charged by match referee Chris Broad despite a number of heated run-ins. Gavaskar was shocked, making frank comments that have extended an acrimonious postscript to India's series-levelling win in Bangalore.

Jadeja’s seven wickets in the match, which included a crucial six for 63 in the first innings, have helped him move up one rank to reach the top position for the first time in his career. The last time two bowlers shared the top spot was in April 2008 when Dale Steyn and Muttiah Muralidaran were at the top.

BCCI sincerely hopes that the rest of the matches are played in the true spirit of cricket.

Ravichandran Ashwin picked 6/41 as India defeated Australia by 75 runs to level four-match series 1-1 in Bangalore on Tuesday. Chasing 188 for win, Australia were all out for 112 in the fourth innings. R Ashwin broke and created more records durin g his 25th five-wicket haul in Tests. He also overtook Bishan Singh Bedi's wickets tally in the longest format.

OPPO Mobiles India, the smartphone manufacturer, has won the Indian team sponsorship rights for a five-year period, starting April 1 2017. OPPO Mobiles will pay INR 1079 crore for five years.

The route of Go Heritage Run has been fixed for 5,10 and 21 kms. The run will start from Chousath Yogini temple and back to the same place. Participants can complete their run as per their choice either by running, walking or jogging.

The Fifth Asian School Hockey Championship will be held in Bhopal from April 3. Around 200 players of eight countries and 75 office-bearers will participate in the championship. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, UAE, Bangladesh and China have given approval for the championship.

On a pitch so dry it resembled the surface of Mars to Shane Warne, which looked unlike any Ravi Shastri said he had seen in India, it was a fast bowler who came away with the richest haul. Umesh Yadav's combination of pace and reverse swing fetched him four wickets as Australia managed 256 for 9 in Pune.

"I am pretty confident of where my game stands and pretty comfortable with myself as a person now. People writing articles or speaking about certain things, that's their job. I have no control over it, they have to write or criticise or not criticise, that's not in my control.

Initially an attempt is being made to organise talent search in all schools in the academic session and prepare a data bank. On this basis, talented players will be included and trained in academies run by the Sports Department for international competitions.

England all-rounders Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes, Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews and Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins are the rest of the players in this bracket. The IPL auction is scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on February 20.

Chases can be tricky. And when you're chasing a big total under lights, the equation tends to become all the more skeptical. In their first match of 2017, a rejigged England side playing a different format, in order to erase the painful memories of the Test defeat, did whatever one could have asked of them. They put up their highest score in the country - a daunting 350/7 - and yet it wasn't enough to stop India, who on the back of match-winning centuries from skipper Virat Kohli and Kedar Jadhav, pulled off a miraculous chase to take a 1-0 lead in the series. In fact, it was the fourth-highest successful chase of all-time.

Gujarat, who won their first Ranji Trophy title, were chasing 312 to win on Day 5 . Mumbai scored 412 in their second innings, riding on half centuries by Abhishek Nayar and skipper Aditya Tare.Get highlights from Day 5 of the Gujarat vs Mumbai Ranji Trophy Final here.

Following the mishap, the former Pakistan cricket captain had asked the driver to pull over. A heated discussion had ensued and the suspect, who was sitting in the back seat, came out of the car and fired a shot which hit Akram's vehicle.

Wrestling is the new form of traditional game ‘Kushti’ which is struggling for existence due to emergence of other sports that are over-glamorised. Achievement of women wrestlers and inspirational movies based on success story of women wrestlers proved a big morale booster for girls and brought a ray of hope for desired promotion of Kushti in India.

Youths get an opportunity to show their skills and improve personality because of youth festival being organised continuously. She appealed youths not be upset in case of not getting success in competition. What is needed is courage. Courage ensures victory.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has resigned as India’s cricket captain. He was leading the Indian team in ODIs and T20 ever since he retired from Tests on December 30, 2016. Just like he did with his Test retirement in Australia, Dhoni caught everyone by surprise by announcing his retirement from the limited overs format of the game.

The court said a committee of administrators will be appointed on January 19 to oversee the business operations of the BCCI. The composition of the committee will be finalised by a pair of amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium and Indian constitutional jurist Fali S Nariman.

Azhar’s unbeaten 139 pushed Pakistan to 310 for six at the end of day two of the second test against Australia on Tuesday and was a triumph of patience and determination in t he face of frustrating rain delays and a world class pace attack.

The 25-year-old, who hit a six with his first scoring shot when he made his test debut against Australia in July, brought Sri Lanka within 105 runs of South Africa’s first innings total of 286 before bad light stopped play for the day.