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With FIFA suspending the AIFF late on Monday, there was chaos as Gokulam Kerala women's team had already reached Uzbekistan to participate in the AFC Women's Club Championship.
It was a voluntary move by the national team head coach, who ensured that team's only Olympic medallist pugilist is in good mental frame with her coach around with her.
Thakur said being the main financier of Olympic sports in the country, the government has every right to take call on matters of national representation.
Nambiar, who coached P T Usha to glory, is battling Parkinson's disease.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur launched the 'Cheer4India' song of the country's Olympic contingent.
The 46-year-old former BCCI president was given charge of Sports along with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry after he took oath as a cabinet minister.
For Arjuna Award, the Board will send the names of senior batsman Shikhar Dhawan, who was ignored last year, K L Rahul and pacer Jasprit Bumrah.
The remark came in the backdrop of Bengaluru FC's AFC Cup play-off against Eagles FC in Male being postponed after the visiting team had to tender an apology for violating quarantine protocols in the host city.
The decision to appoint Hima as DSP was taken in an Assam cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Dispur on Wednesday.
The government's flagship Khelo India programme was handed the biggest reduction -- of Rs 232.71 crore -- among all sports heads for the 2021-22 budget.
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