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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Sunday presented the Ramineni Foundation's outstanding person award to badminton coach Pullela Gopichand.
He also presented special awards to Telugu literary wizard Garikapati Narasimha Rao, film director Nag Ashwin Reddy and writer C Venkata Ramana.
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Top shuttlers including Olympic medallists PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, world champion Carolina Marin and former world no 1 Victor Axelsen will headline the players' auction in the fourth edition of the Vodafone Premier Badminton League here Monday.
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India opened its Para Asian Games campaign in style by bagging two silver and three bronze medals on the opening day here Sunday.
The men's badminton team opened the country's medal account after narrowly losing to Malaysia 1- 2 in the semifinals to settle for a bronze.
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Meghana Reddy and Tasnim Mir won the girls doubles crown as Indian shuttlers bagged five medals in the Badminton Asia Junior U-17 and U-15 championships which concluded at Mandalay, Myanmar on Sunday....
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Reigning Asian junior champion Lakshya Sen will spearhead India's campaign at the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships, to be held in Markham, Canada from November 5-18.
A 24-member squad including 13 boys and 11 girls will represent India in the tournament with junior world No.
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Lone surviving Indian Ajay Jayaram bowed out of the men's singles event of the Chinese Taipei BWF World Tour Super 300 badminton tournament after suffering a straight game loss in the quarter-finals here on Friday.
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Pune was on Friday named as the new franchise of the Premier Badminton League, making the event a nine-team affair from this season.
In its endeavour to make PBL a much bigger affair, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) has introduced the new team for the fourth edition of the league.
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Cornwall’s top badminton players took part in the annual county championships over 2 days at St Austell Leisure Centre at the weekend, with an exciting display of talent from over 40 players of all ages ranging from 14 to veteran.
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Actor Shraddha Kapoor, who is all set to portray Saina Nehwal on the big screen, says the ace badminton player's journey mirrors her own.
The biopic, titled "Saina", will be directed by Amol Gupte, who has helmed movies such as "Stanley Ka Dabba" and "Hawa Hawaai".
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After garnering immense appreciation for her latest quirky drama 'Stree', Shraddha Kapoor is all set to treat her fans with Bhushan Kumar's biopic on Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal.T- Series has released the first look of Shraddha as Saina.
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These village teenagers were playing an incredible game of keepy-uppy - kicking the ball across a net on dusty jungle court.
The shirtless lads were seen in a remote village in Yangon, Burma, taking part in traditional South East Asian sport Sepak Takaw on September 11.
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Former national badminton coach Vimal Kumar Thursday lauded Saina Nehwal for not letting her relationship with fellow shuttler Parupalli Kashyap affect her game, amid reports that the two are tying the knot in December.
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National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand feels Indian athletes no longer have to worry about the basic facilities that he had to struggle for in his playing days.
"All my life I have struggled to get basic sports facilities.
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The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) in presence of actor Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday gave a rousing send-off to the athletes ahead of the third Asian Para Games, slated to be held from October 6 to 13.
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Badminton player and Olympian PV Sindhu is the only sportsperson featuring in the Forbes India's maiden 'tycoons of tomorrow' list of 22 young achievers in the fields of business, acting and sports.
