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Sports stars hail govt's training initiative for athlete ahead of Olympic Games

New Delhi, Oct 29 (ANI): Sports stars hailed Modi government's initiative of better training programme for athletes ahead of Olympic Games in a bid to enhance their performance to bag more medals for the country. The Sports Ministry has decided to start a "Target Mission Olympic Podium Scheme", an initiative promoted by National Sports Development fund to identify sports personnel and train them for Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics and other major sporting events up to 2020 games. Appreciating the government's plan, Cricketer Rahul Dravid said the initiative will not only encourage the sportspersons but will also play a major role in increasing the medal tally of India in the future events. Olympian boxer Mary Kom said she being part of the planning committee would help in structuring a better programme for sportspersons, which would in turn help to boost their performance on the international platforms. Oct 29, 2014
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Hope SC will rise and do the needful: Jethmalani on black money

New Delhi, Oct 27 (ANI): Senior Lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Monday said that the case of black money account holders is a case of mountain in labour producing a mouse. He further hoped that Supreme Court will rise to the occasion and do the needful. The Supreme Court has revealed three names of foreign bank account holders. Oct 27, 2014
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Modi govt clears defence projects worth Rs 80,000cr

New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): Defence Minister Arun Jaitley led Defence Acquistion Council gave approval to the defence procurements of worth Rs. 80,000 crore. Major long pending proposals have just seen the light with the defence ministry giving clear signal to the navy's Project 75 India i.e construction of six new submarines with the cost of approximately Rs. 50,000 crore. Oct 26, 2014
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Asian Games medalists felicitated

New Delhi/ Manipur, Oct 23 (ANI): The medal winners of the recently-concluded 17th Asian Games met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. The Prime Minister congratulated the sportspersons and expressed hope that they will continue bringing laurels for the country. The medal winners were also felicitated by the Sports Ministry at an event in the Capital. Union sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Union minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and other MPs were present at the event. While the gold medal winners were awarded Rs.20 lakh each, the silver and bronze medalists got Rs 10 and 6 lakh each respectively. The recently concluded Asian Games held in Incheon in South Korea saw India finish at the eighth position in the medal's tally. At a separate felicitation programme boxer MC Mary Kom was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of India's Incheon Asian Games campaign. The pugilist was awarded a cash prize of Rs.10 lakh by the organizers. The Manipur government also felicitated the Asian games medal winners and participants from the state at an event at the Khuman Lampak sports complex. Oct 23, 2014
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