NEW DELHI: The Odisha government has won the Best State Promoting Sports Award at the FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 held here on Wednesday.
Odisha Sports Minister Tusharkanti Behera and Secretary Vishal Kumar Dev received the award on behalf of the state government at a function where sporting icons were honoured for their…
BHUBANESWAR: Indian Super League franchise Odisha FC and Special Olympics Bharat have collaborated for promoting the initiative of inclusiveness in sports via football.
Prakash Rath, area director, SO Bharat - Odisha and Aakash Narula, head, Football Development, Odisha FC, were present to kick-start the one-year partnership…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Following 12 months of research, analysis and testing, the International Hockey Federation has revealed details of the new FIH World Ranking system that will be employed from 1 January 2020.
The fresh approach – which has been approved by the FIH executive board – sees a switch from the existing…
LONDON: At a special meeting held Thursday, Premier League clubs approved the appointment of interim chief executive Richard Masters as its CEO on a permanent basis,
finally filling a vacancy that has been open since the departure of Richard Scudamore in November 2018.
Masters, formerly the organisation's managing…
MUMBAI: The VIVO IPL 2020 Player Auction list is out with a total of 332 cricketers set to go under the hammer in Kolkata on December 19th.
While 997 players had initially registered, the final list has been pruned after the eight franchises submitted their shortlist of players.
With Rs 20 million as the highest…
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar, president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, has named the successor to Sanjay Gupta, till recently, country manager of Star & Disney India, in an internal mail sent out Friday morning.
K Madhavan, managing director (South), Star India, has been appointed Star &…
MUMBAI: "India is not one country in terms of the football market but ‘a subcontinent’ with football markets operating differently everywhere. And given the size of the country, a 20-team league is not impossible in the next 10 years."
This was the one of key points made during the opening Knowledge Session - "The Road Ahead…
MUMBAI: Multi-sport aggregator platform FanCode has entered into a multi-year exclusive streaming partnership deal for showcasing the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in India.
The Bangladesh Premier League, which is being played between Dec 11, 2019, to Jan 17, 2020, is the premier T20 league of Bangladesh comprising 46…
LONDON: The Indian Premier League has gained momentum like never before, with the league attracting ever more fans, high profile investment and international prestige. The Twenty20 cricket tournament has seen its business value grow to an all-time high of $5.7 billion, according to the latest report by independent brand valuation and…
LONDON: Eleven Sports has announced the appointment of Luis Vicente as the group's new CEO.
Vicente, who takes up his new role on 15th January 2020, joins the streaming platform from FIFA where, as chief digital transformation & innovation officer, he worked to champion new technologies, gaming, data and content strategies…