Vikas Gowda

A 23-year-old Youtuber was arrested for allegedly entering the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, recording a video and later falsely claiming that he spent an entire day there, police said today.

In the backdrop of its alliance with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, the Congress on Wednesday said there could be more such "pragmatic formations" in other parts of the country as it was imperative for all parties to come together to halt BJP's march.

Manpreet Kaur won the gold medal for India on the opening day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar in the women's shot put event.

P R Sreejesh along with Indian cricket team's celebrated Captain Virat Kohli, Olympic medal winning wrestler Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and athlete Vikas Gowda were short listed for the national award.

The injury means that Vikas Gowda will go straight to the discus throw event in the Olympics without having taken part in any preparatory competition

Vikas Gowda, who won the gold medal in the 2012 Commonwealth games, has said he will compete in less events in the build-up to the Rio Games as he wants to be fresh

The cut off mark for the men's discus throw for Rio Games was 66.00 meters but a few days back the IAAF Council decided to lower it to 65.00 metres, which Vikas Gowda had crossed in the Jamaican Invitational Athletics Meet in May.

Vikas Gowda, the reigning Asian and Commonwealth champion, had an off day in office as he could come up with a best effort of just 62.24m, well below his season's best of 65.75m and personal as well as national record of 66.28m. He had made it to the final round with a best effort of 63.84m in the qualification round on Thursday.

Vikas Gowda, India's best medal hope at the field events of he World Athletics Championships, qualified for the discus final with a poor throw of 63.86m.

Saina Nehwal's personal coach Vimal Kumar will get a remuneration of Rs 1 lakh from the sports ministry from the National Sports Development Fund (NSDF).

India's squad for the IAAF World Championships comprises 10 women and seven male athletes. The athletes will compete in nine events in the biennial event at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing from August 22 to 30.

Discus thrower Vikas Gowda and woman steeplechaser Lalita Babar won gold medals, while India's G. Lakshmanan won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 metres race at the Asian Athletics Championships.

Ace India discus thrower Vikas Gowda won a bronze medal in the second leg of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League series on Sunday. The 31-year-old Gowda hurled the disc to a distance of 63.90m, which he achieved in his fifth and penultimate attempt to finish third behind 2013 World Championships silver medallist Piotr Malachowski (64.65m) of Poland...

Vikas Gowda came up with an effort of 65.14m in discus throw to beat Chad Wright of Jamaica and Jared Schuurmans of United States.

Commonwealth Games gold medallist discus thrower Vikas Gowda

A 23-year-old Youtuber was arrested for allegedly entering the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, recording a video and later falsely claiming that he spent an entire day there, police said today.

In the backdrop of its alliance with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, the Congress on Wednesday said there could be more such "pragmatic formations" in other parts of the country as it was imperative for all parties to come together to halt BJP's march.

Manpreet Kaur won the gold medal for India on the opening day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar in the women's shot put event.

P R Sreejesh along with Indian cricket team's celebrated Captain Virat Kohli, Olympic medal winning wrestler Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and athlete Vikas Gowda were short listed for the national award.

The injury means that Vikas Gowda will go straight to the discus throw event in the Olympics without having taken part in any preparatory competition

Vikas Gowda, who won the gold medal in the 2012 Commonwealth games, has said he will compete in less events in the build-up to the Rio Games as he wants to be fresh

The cut off mark for the men's discus throw for Rio Games was 66.00 meters but a few days back the IAAF Council decided to lower it to 65.00 metres, which Vikas Gowda had crossed in the Jamaican Invitational Athletics Meet in May.

Vikas Gowda, the reigning Asian and Commonwealth champion, had an off day in office as he could come up with a best effort of just 62.24m, well below his season's best of 65.75m and personal as well as national record of 66.28m. He had made it to the final round with a best effort of 63.84m in the qualification round on Thursday.

Vikas Gowda, India's best medal hope at the field events of he World Athletics Championships, qualified for the discus final with a poor throw of 63.86m.

Saina Nehwal's personal coach Vimal Kumar will get a remuneration of Rs 1 lakh from the sports ministry from the National Sports Development Fund (NSDF).

India's squad for the IAAF World Championships comprises 10 women and seven male athletes. The athletes will compete in nine events in the biennial event at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing from August 22 to 30.

Discus thrower Vikas Gowda and woman steeplechaser Lalita Babar won gold medals, while India's G. Lakshmanan won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 metres race at the Asian Athletics Championships.

Ace India discus thrower Vikas Gowda won a bronze medal in the second leg of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League series on Sunday. The 31-year-old Gowda hurled the disc to a distance of 63.90m, which he achieved in his fifth and penultimate attempt to finish third behind 2013 World Championships silver medallist Piotr Malachowski (64.65m) of Poland...

Vikas Gowda came up with an effort of 65.14m in discus throw to beat Chad Wright of Jamaica and Jared Schuurmans of United States.

Commonwealth Games gold medallist discus thrower Vikas Gowda