Double Asian Games gold-medallist Ashwini Akkunji was on Saturday named in the Indian women’s 4x400M relay squad for next month’s World Championships in Moscow just days after completing a two-year b

New Delhi: Double Asian Games gold-medallist Ashwini Akkunji looked set to make it to the Indian women's 4x400m relay squad for next month's World Championships in Moscow after she finished joint sec

Indian athletes have seldom caught the eye in Olympics and other international events but the country has ignominiously topped the charts in the doping arena.

In the International Association of Athl

India's six top women athletes, including Asian Games double gold-medallist Ashwini Akkunji, were on Friday handed one-year bans for flunking dope tests earlier this year, virtually ending their ch

Two more Indian athletes, Ashwini Akkunji and Priyanka Pawar, have failed their dope tests.

Ashwini, a gold medallist at last year's Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and Priyanka were part of