Volleyball Player Attacked

A 24-year-old national level woman volleyball player hailing from Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district died of heart attack at a hospital here on Wednesday.

A teenaged girl was hacked to death in Barasat near Kolkata on Friday. A young man allegedly attacked her with a cleaver as she was playing volleyball with 30 other girls.

The volleyball players were gunned down in the eastern province of Laghman by attackers riding on a motorbike.

A teenage girl, who is a state level volleyball player, was hospitalised with serious injuries after two motorcycle-borne youth threw acid on her while she was going for practice on Saturday evening, police said. 18-year-old Ritu Saini was taken to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak with burn injuries on her face and...

The Italian volleyball federation says 1996 Olympic silver medalist Vigor Bovolenta has died after he was stricken with a heart attack while playing a match. He was 37.

When Arunima Sinha boarded a train to Delhi from Lucknow, the 23-year-old volleyball player was thinking of her future. The national-level volleyball player wanted to join a recruitment drive for the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) that was to take place in Noida. Instead, after being attacked by three men on the train, she is now in hospi...

Twenty three-year-old national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha lost her leg after she was pushed out of a train in Uttar Pradesh by three men who were trying to rob her. Her attackers are still at large. "Now my dreams will never be fulfilled," she said speaking to NDTV from her hospital bed today. (Watch)Sports Minister Ajay Maken has announ...

A 24-year-old national level woman volleyball player hailing from Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district died of heart attack at a hospital here on Wednesday.

A teenaged girl was hacked to death in Barasat near Kolkata on Friday. A young man allegedly attacked her with a cleaver as she was playing volleyball with 30 other girls.

The volleyball players were gunned down in the eastern province of Laghman by attackers riding on a motorbike.

A teenage girl, who is a state level volleyball player, was hospitalised with serious injuries after two motorcycle-borne youth threw acid on her while she was going for practice on Saturday evening, police said. 18-year-old Ritu Saini was taken to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak with burn injuries on her face and...

The Italian volleyball federation says 1996 Olympic silver medalist Vigor Bovolenta has died after he was stricken with a heart attack while playing a match. He was 37.

When Arunima Sinha boarded a train to Delhi from Lucknow, the 23-year-old volleyball player was thinking of her future. The national-level volleyball player wanted to join a recruitment drive for the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) that was to take place in Noida. Instead, after being attacked by three men on the train, she is now in hospi...

Twenty three-year-old national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha lost her leg after she was pushed out of a train in Uttar Pradesh by three men who were trying to rob her. Her attackers are still at large. "Now my dreams will never be fulfilled," she said speaking to NDTV from her hospital bed today. (Watch)Sports Minister Ajay Maken has announ...