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Sharad Pawar & team out, Bombay HC hands reins of Maharashtra wrestling body to BJP affiliate

Bench concluded that Pawar-led Maharashtra Wrestling Association was validly disaffiliated due to 'substantial' findings of misconduct, including embezzlement & administrative failures.

An IIT PhD scholar is fighting to save Varanasi’s Tulsidas Akhada. ‘We need to make it cool’

Wrestlers from the Netherlands, France, and Portugal are now coming to the 400-year-old Tulsidas Akhada in Varanasi. Behind it is a mahant’s engineer son — ‘If we don't adapt, this tradition won't survive.’

18 months after Olympic heartbreak, Vinesh Phogat announces return to the mat. ‘The fire never left’

Following her disqualification from the Paris Olympics, Phogat contested the 2024 Haryana elections & won the Julana seat as the Congress MLA. She hopes to bag the gold medal in the 2028 Olympics.

From Delhi’s Golf Links to Uttarakhand’s hills, 2 Indians chase glory in Mixed Martial Arts arena

Jason Solomon & Angad Bisht represent contrasting journeys shaping India’s future in MMA, a sport that hasn't picked up much pace since it was first televised in the country 13 yrs ago.

In Maharashtra, the wrestling mat is political turf, and Rohit Pawar’s bout has just begun

With wrestlers often being local celebrities and politicians tapping them regularly, Maharashtra's wrestling scene has been on the boil; 3 'kustigir' bodies are fighting over which one is the official federation.

White House to host UFC next yr, courtesy Trump’s ties to league dating back to Taj Mahal casino days

Tump’s plan is to hold a high-profile ‘championship fight’ on the White House lawns, with a live audience of up to 25,000.

Jonty Bhati has put Greater Noida on wrestling map. Haryana has competition

Greater Noida: A 250 gm container filled with homemade ghee, four kg milk and a kg of curd have traveled nearly 50 km on...

‘Setback, conspiracy’, Indian sports community reacts after 2026 Commonwealth Games roster shrinks

Sports, like wrestling, hockey, cricket, shooting & table tennis, where India performs well, have been removed from the scaled-back programme for the Games in Glasgow.

Haryana’s akhadas rally behind Vinesh making her political debut. ‘Want her to win for pehelwan betis’

Vinesh Phogat will contest from Julana on Congress ticket & seems to have backing of wrestlers, coaches from across the state, which has seen a drop in girls participating in wrestling.

Shirdi’s Sai Baba practised wrestling. Then he lost a match and gave it up forever

In 'Shirdi Sai Baba', Chandra Bhanu Satpathy explores the fusion of Sufi and Bhakti traditions in Sai Baba's teachings.

On Camera

Most GenZ people are not even GenZ. It’s a state of mind

Gen Z stopped being a birth year and became a state of mind. Saif, Bebo, Rakhi, and Robert Pattinson prove you don't need a 2000s birth year to be a patron saint of internet culture.

Gen Z prefers betting online, so casinos are reinventing the real-world experience

With Gen Z more likely to gamble online than visit casinos, operators are adding sports, spas, street food and social spaces to turn gaming venues into lifestyle destinations.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Munir’s latest power grab is proof of his paranoia. Dictatorship and delusion go together

At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.