DC Cartoon, 'Here & Now' by Sudhir Tailang: Indian Sports needs Anna!

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Cabinet Rejects Sports Bill, 5 ministers present with conflict of interest!

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NDTV Correspondent, Updated: August 30, 2011 20:23 IST.

New Delhi:  The cabinet has not cleared the new Sports Bill, which is meant to increase considerably the transparency of all sports bodies, including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).  Sports Minister Ajay Maken has been asked to revise the bill.

At least five of the ministers present at the cabinet review today have a conflict of interest because they head sports bodies.  They include Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Farooq Abdullah, and CP Joshi.  Concerns voiced reportedly centred upon whether the Bill would impinge too far upon the autonomy of sports bodies

The bill's headline lay its attempt to increase the financial accountability of the BCCI, one of the richest sports organizations in the world.  To enable that, the Sports Ministry wanted the Right to Information (RTI) Act to apply to the BCCI, allowing the public to request financial and other details of the cricket board.

This morning, Mr Maken said he wanted the National Sports Development Bill 2011 to be introduced in Parliament during this current session which ends on September 8. That is no longer possible.  "We need reforms in sports, which we hope the National Sports Bill will bring. I am hopeful that the Parliament will be unanimous on this Bill," he had said.

In addition to its firm stand on the BCCI, the bill wanted administrators of all sports bodies to be 70 or younger; it introduced a limit of two terms for all sports administrators.  Features like these have met with stiff resistance in the past by sports federations who are often headed by politicians cutting across party lines. More than 50% of the country's cricket associations are led by politicians.  

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Anglo-Indian schools pioneers of modern education: N. Ram!

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Staff Reporter, The Hindu /  COIMBATORE, July 30, 2011.

N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu lighting the olympic torch at the inauguration of ' The Anglo- Indian Schools Tamil Nadu State Athletic Meet,2011' in Coimbatore on Saturday. Photo: K. Ananthan - The Hindu.

Anglo-Indian Schools have a proud place in education as they are the pioneers of modern education, said N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, while inaugurating The Anglo-Indian Schools Tamil Nadu State Athletic Meet - 2011, here on Saturday.

They brought in values of enlightenment, rationality and science. India is a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society. The Constitution guarantees equality for all, which means no group is more or less equal than the other. It also does not mean that the majority is more equal than the minority.

Sports is a great leveller which brings everybody together. Nothing except individual skill and technique matters in it, he said.

Mr. Ram commended the students who took out a march past. “It was wonderful watching the students march by. They were smart, marched aesthetically and the whole thing appeared as if it were a choreographed event.”

India's record in sports was a mixed bag. Though the country had performed reasonably well in the past decade, compared to China, South Korea it had a long way to go. “We have a chess champion in Viswanathan Anand, our cricket team enjoys the number one ranking among Test playing nations and Abhinav Bindra has performed well in shooting. But in track and field events and football, India has a long way to go.”

It is necessary and crucial to lay a broad-based foundation for development of sports in the country.

Referring to the Common Wealth Games scam and the doping scandal, he said it was a matter of shame that the athletes had resorted to such unethical practices. The blame game was on and the malaise was deeprooted.

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INDIAN SPORTS & DOPING: Athletes have told me they knowingly take banned drugs: Saina!

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July 6, 2011 / PTI, Mumbai / DC.

Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal an event in Mumbai - PTI.

Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal today gave a stunning twist to the raging dope scandal by saying that many athletes and weightlifters had told her in the past that they knowingly consume banned drugs.

"I also know many athletes and weightlifters who themselves tell me that 'we take it'," Saina told reporters during an event in Mumbai.

India was rocked by doping scandal recently with eight top national athletes who got training in NIS failing dope tests.

There were also reports that banned drugs were widely available in chemist shops near the national institute of Sport in Patiala.

Asked if she was aware about the availability of banned drugs at medical stores, the world number six said, "I don't know whether it is available or not. I don't take it."

Around 300 Athletes were found to have taken performance enhancement drugs, whose files have been kept as State Secret by the Indian Sports Authorities speaks volumes of a National conspiracy that brought shame to us!

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INDIAN SPORTS & DOPING: More Indian athletes in doping scandal!

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A second member of the Indian women's 4x400 metres Asian and Commonwealth Games winning team has failed a dope test, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said on Thursday.

A day after gold-medallist Mandeep Kaur was banned, teammate Sini Jose also tested positive for the same banned anabolic steroid methandienone, AFI director ML Dogra said.

Juana Murmu and Tiana Mary Thomas, who are also 400m runners, shot putter Sonia and long jumper Hari Krishna Muralidharan also returned positive results for the same drug.

Murmu had failed the dope test conducted by the world governing body of athletics (IAAF) at a training camp in India last month.

India's medal prospects in the London Olympics will be severely dented in the women's 400 metres relay as two of the four runners from the triumphant Asian Games team will be ruled out.

Why they indulge in such silly acts as anyway they would be subjected to the doping tests and caught?

Sportspersons who were caught of doping would be punished with suspension but, shouldn't they also be prosecuted under THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT, 1985?

Coaches and the doctors who prescribed such drugs and / or drug dealers who supplied them such banned drugs too should be prosecuted under the above Law!

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