Published On: August 24, 2018 09:04 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 24: Nepal’s badminton team build on their success against Pakistan as they beat Mongolia in men’s doubles and Maldives in women’s singles to reach the Round of 16 in the 18th Asian Games on Thursday.
Published On: August 23, 2018 09:40 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 23: Gold medalist of the 10th South Asian Games (SAG) weightlifter Kamal Bahadur Adhikari has improved all his previous national records at the 18th Asian Games. At the JI Expo in Jakarta, Adhikari was successful in making new national records on Wednesday, but was limited to the sixth place among eight players.
Published On: August 22, 2018 10:11 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 22: Nepal’s Sanju Chaudhary has improved on three national records in weightlifting at the 18th Asian Games on Tuesday. At the Weightlifting Hall in JI Expo, Chaudhary set three new national records in snatch, clean and jerk, and on total score in the women’s 53 kg weight category.
Published On: August 22, 2018 10:05 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 22: Taekwondo head coach Deepak Bista has blamed Nepal’s lack of preparations for failure to get any medal at the ongoing Asian Games.
Published On: August 21, 2018 08:54 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
Jakarta, Aug 21: Nepali siblings Mayanka and Mahika Rana reached the quarterfinals of tennis in the women’s double category on Monday at the ongoing Asian Games in Indonesia. The duo overcame the Maldivian duo Irfa Mahir and Jina Abdul Rashid 6-4, 6-1.
Published On: August 20, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 20: The Nepali lawn tennis and shooting teams have continued the country’s unsuccessful run in the 18th Asian Games.
Published On: August 20, 2018 11:07 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
JAKARTA, Aug 20: Nepal does not really hope to win a gold medal in the Asian Games. However, it has been participating in the Asian sports jamboree with a faint hope of getting a bronze medal or two in martial arts.
Published On: July 23, 2018 09:09 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, July 23: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is organizing the Martyr’s Memorial A-Division League after a halt of five long years.
Published On: January 30, 2018 08:52 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, Jan 30: The National Sports Council (NSC) Member Secretary Keshav Kumar Bista on Monday claimed that the long-running dispute in Nepali cricket is likely to be resolved soon saying that their talks with the representatives of the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made significant progress following the ICC members arrival in Kathmandu on Saturday.
Published On: January 28, 2018 09:55 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
COLOMBO, Jan 28: The last Wednesday morning brought a special excitement for Sri Lankan footballers- male or female. There was no training like any other day. A rare opportunity for football lovers was waiting for them in Colombo’s Independence Square. They got to see the trophy and feel the goosebumps they wouldn’t be winning any time soon.
Published On: January 3, 2018 07:00 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, Jan 3: The Supreme Court (SC) has again given its verdict recognizing the Rukma Shamsher Rana-led Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC), scrapping all writs filed against it. With the decision, the court has upheld its previous decision to deny legitimacy to the committee of NOC led by CPN-UML leader and lawmaker Jeevan Ram Shrestha.
Published On: January 2, 2018 04:59 PM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, Jan 3: Supreme Court (SC) has decided to re-recognize the Rukma Shamsher Rana-led Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) and has scraped all the writs filed by different petitioners including Jeevan Ram Shrestha.
Published On: August 4, 2017 07:35 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, Aug 3: All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) has summoned its working committee meeting on August 16 to discuss Three Star’s compensation issue.
Published On: July 1, 2017 12:40 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, July 1: National Sports Council (NSC), which has failed to make any notable progress regarding the preparation to host the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) despite postponing the date by 20 months, has formed a new committee under Lama Tendi Sherpa on Friday, assigning it to expedite infrastructure development works.
Published On: February 20, 2017 09:40 PM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Nepal is set to take part in the ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2017 scheduled from March 25 to April 5 in Bangladesh.
Published On: January 2, 2017 08:44 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
DHARAN, Jan 2:The biggest sports festival of the country, National Games, is three and a half decades old. The event that began in 1981 and supposed to be organized on biennial basis should have seen 17 editions of the games in 35 years.
Published On: December 30, 2016 09:25 PM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
DHARAN, Dec 30: With promises to hold the next edition of the National Games in Mid Western Region after two years, the week-long Seventh National Games concluded on Friday in Dharan amidst poor management, weak infrastructure, political clash and serious issue of discipline violation.
Published On: December 30, 2016 09:15 PM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
ITAHARI, Dec 30: Former national football team striker Surendra Tamang's house is nearly 200 m away from Itahari Satadium in Itahari. The very ground where Surendra learned to kick ball during his childhood days and later mastered his skills of football organized athletics, volleyball, taekwondo among other games under the Seventh National Games.
Published On: December 28, 2016 08:31 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
BIRATNAGAR, Dec 28: Expressing dissatisfaction over referee decision, a volleyball player of Western Region manhandled the referee on Tuesday.
Published On: December 27, 2016 09:08 AM NPT By: AJAY PHUYAL
BIRATNAGAR, Dec 27: Karateka Mukunda Maharjan made a hat-trick of gold medals in the National Games on Monday as his team Armed Police Force (APF) maintained its domination in the martial arts games.