Sharmila Dhankar (ANI Photo) New Delhi: For Sharmila Dhankar, every throw carries the weight of a life rebuilt. From growing up in poverty in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district and surviving domestic abuse in her first marriage to selling the family home to sustain her sporting dream, the 40-year-old para shot putter has turned adversity into ambition…
Muthupandi Raja (ANI Photo) Chennai: The silver medal that Tamil Nadu weightlifter Muthupandi Raja won on Sunday probably belonged as much to his parents as it did to him. Their years of back-breaking work as daily wage labourers gave their son the chance to chase a dream that found its defining moment in Glasgow. The…
Rishikanta Singh Chanambam (right) with his family in Imphal and (pic right) after winning silver in Glasgow on Sunday. As Rishikanta Singh Chanambam stepped onto the platform for the men’s 60kg weightlifting competition at Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Sunday, his biggest supporters gathered around a mobile phone over 7,000km away in Uttarlai, Barmer, Rajasthan.Although…
Glasgow: India’s Tejas Shirse, second left, Saint Lucia’s Khailan Vitalis, left, and others compete in the men’s 110m hurdles round 1 (PTI Photo) Indian weightlifters are quite literally carrying the weight of expectations in Glasgow. After Mirabai Chanu’s gold and Rishikanta Singh’s silver, Muthupandi Raja, Gyaneshwari Yadav and Bindyarani Devi added two silvers and a…
India’s first-ever para athletics gold medallist Sharmila Dhankar India enjoyed a memorable Day 5 at the Commonwealth Games as Sharmila Dhankar won a historic gold, Sarvesh Kushare, Valluri Ajaya Babu and Gyaneshwari Yadav claimed silver medals, while Shilpa K. Shyla and Bindyarani Devi added bronze medals. The six-medal haul took India’s overall tally to 10…
NEW DELHI: India on Monday enjoyed one of its best days at the Commonwealth Games with six medals overall, with Sharmila Dhankar making history after becoming the country’s first-ever para-athletics gold medallist. On Day 5 of the event, she won the women’s F57 shot put title with a season-best throw of 9.81m, ending India’s 20-year…
Gyaneshwari Yadav during the women’s weightlifting 53kg Snatch during day four of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP) India’s weightlifting contingent added another Commonwealth Games medal on Sunday as Gyaneshwari Yadav clinched silver in the women’s 53kg final.It was India’s fourth weightlifting medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in…
Mirabai Chanu (ANI Photo) There is a gold-winning performance and then there is the Mirabai Chanu way of doing it. In Glasgow on Sunday, the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist lifter made it look like child’s play as she went about completing a hat-trick of Commonwealth Games gold medals. In her very first attempt in the…
Sarvesh Kushare (left) and Tejas Shirse Tejas Shirse will be looking to open India’s medal account in athletics as the track and field events begin at ther Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Monday. Shirse had broken the men’s 110m hurdles national record with a time of 13.27s during Indian Athletics Series in Ludhiana last month, and…
The name ‘Anahat’ came from Guru Nanak’s prayer NEW DELHI: Aad aneel anaad anaahat jug jug ayko vays. This exact line appears once at the close of four consecutive stanzas, Pauris 28, 29, 30, and 31, of Japji Sahib, composed by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, in the opening composition of the Guru Granth…