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Delhi High Court sets aside TTFI order suspending Kamlesh Mehta; sets up Enquiry Authority

The High Court of Delhi on Monday set aside the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) order of January 28 last suspending Kamlesh Mehta as its Secretary-General and declaring him…

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Delhi HC’s bitter-sweet judgement sharpens focus on NSF governance issues and legal spends

The High Court of Delhi on Monday allowed the results of the election to the All India Tennis Association (AITA) Executive Council to be made public 19 months after the…

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Yashodhara Raje Scindia set to make history as Chair of EFI Ad Hoc Committee

Former Madhya Pradesh Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia has been named by the Indian Olympic Association to head the four-member ad hoc committee to run the…

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Delhi HC allows appointment of ad hoc panel to govern Equestrian sport in India

The High Court of Delhi allowed the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’ application to write to the Indian Olympic Association to appoint an ad hoc committee to run the…

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Posted in Governance Sport in India

Team India urgently needs to implement Task Force suggestions on coaching

Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Mansukh Mandaviya told the Lok Sabha on Monday that the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Unified Framework for Development of…

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Posted in Governance Sport in India

Kamlesh Mehta challenges suspension by TTFI with a petition before Delhi HC

The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) finds itself in the High Court of Delhi yet again. Unlike the last time when a player sought and got its intervention,  now it…

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MYAS seeks ad hoc panel to run beleaguered EFI instead of asking for elections

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has urgently sought approval of the High Court of Delhi to let it direct the Indian Olympic Association to form an ad hoc…

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Posted in Governance Sport in India

India must take steps to make Safeguarding of athletes at grassroots levels a reality 

News report: Two teenagers, a track and field athlete and kabaddi player, were found dead in a room in the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Training Centre (STC) hostel in…

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Posted in Asian Games Equestrian Governance

MYAS seeks to facilitate direct travel of horses from India to Japan for Asian Games

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has initiated steps to facilitate Equestrian riders transport their horses based in India to Japan for the Asian Games later this year. It…

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Fewer Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit will have votes in National Sports Bodies now

The drastic reduction of athlete representation in the General Body of a National Sports Federation and in its Executive Committee, as notified in the National Sports Governance (National Sports Bodies)…

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