CHANDIGARH: Announcing a 15 day long sports mega event "World Cup Kabaddi", Punjab Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal said that this would begin in the end of March and continue up to first week of April.

He said that to encourage this traditional game of Punjab, the state Government has announced a record prize of Rs 1 crore for the winner of world cup with Rs 51 lakh and Rs 25 lakh respectively for the teams scoring second and third position

KILA RAIPUR : Bias apparent as women participants get smaller prize money

OF the nearly 600 participants in the Kila Raipur Rural Olympics this year, not more than 100 were women. Only four women’s teams came to take part in the hockey event. Similar was the case with kabaddi. When it came to athletics competitions, only five women participants were seen in the 800m race while in the 5000m women’s race too there were no participants until the afternoon of the day of the event and hence it was delayed until the evening.

Kila Raipur (Punjab), Feb 21 (ANI): Several unique and daredevil sporting events at the Rural Olympics 2010 drew over hundreds of tourists in Kila Raipur here.

Tourists gathered to witness the four-day Rural Olympics held in Kila Raipur, around 11 miles from Ludhiana, which kept alive the traditional sports.

The Rural Olympics also attracted the local youth from the villages, who turned up to witness the event as it inspired them towards physical activities.

KILA RAIPUR: The 75th Kila Raipur Sports Festival got off to a exciting start on Thursday. The jokeys shouted battle cries goading their bulls to streak through the tracks in the preliminary bullock cart races as quite a sizeable crowd held their breath in the open-air stadium at Kila Raipur, 17 km from Ludhiana.

Villagers from all over the region had started trickling in from early morning to occupy vantage seats for crowd-pulling bullock cart race. Total 103 bull carts participated in the time trial race.

BANGALORE: There's fresh trouble ahead for Hockey India officials. The Union sports ministry on Friday hinted that it may withdraw the
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conditional recognition given to the interim body and instead look for 'people with credibility' to run the show until the elections. Of course, it will take this step after the World Cup is over.

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Raipur: A three-member team of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Wednesday visited the Chhattisgarh capital to assess the facilities at a 60,000-seating capacity cricket stadium here.

"The team led by Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament director Dhiraj Malhotra inspected the facilities at the stadium at Parsada village (on the outskirts of Raipur)," Baldev Singh Bhatia, president of the Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh (CSCS), told IANS.

Chhattisgarh offers to host IPL matches
BS Reporter / Raipur March 16, 2009, 1:01 IST

Chhattisgarh has offered to host some matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament at a time when some states have expressed their reservations to do so as the tournament would clash with the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.
The state goes to the polls on April 16, the first phase of the elections.

Raipur: With several states expressing their inability to hold Indian Premier League (IPL) matches during the Lok Sabha elections due to security problem, the tournament organisers reportedly considering a proposal of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh to shift a couple of matches to Raipur''s newly built International Cricket Stadium (ICS).
According to official sources, the Chief Minister had a discussion with IPL chairman Lalit Modi over phone yesterday and have reportedly assured fool-proof security for the Twenty-20 matches, if alloted to Raipur.