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

The doping controversy at the ongoing World Cup Kabaddi Meet seems far from over with five more players being tested positive for banned substances taking the list of dope offenders to 12.

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Leading Indian 400 metres pair Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu have failed doping tests, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said on Wednesday.

The urine samples of the two women, collected at a tra

New Delhi: Doping continued to dog the Commonwealth Games as Nigerian runner Folashade Abugan was today stripped off her women's 400m and 4x400m relay silver medals in the just-concluded event after t

An Indian athlete has flunked the dope test for steroid Nandrolone but the disgraced competitor's name has been withheld by the Commonwealth Games Federation as per the anti-doping code, Federation pr

New Delhi: An Indian athlete has failed the dope test at the Commonwealth Games, CWG Federation president Michael Fennell said on Wednesday.

"We got the reports of the doping test late last (Tuesday

New Delhi: The doping scandal that has rocked the Commonwealth Games today grew in proportion as a second Nigerian athlete flunked dope test for the same banned stimulant, barely a day after one of hi

Dope tainted weightlifter Sanamacha Chanu was staring at a life ban after her 'B' sample test conducted by Nada also turned out to be positive for a banned stimulant.

The 'A' sample of 31-year-old C

Embarrassment piled on India ahead of next month's Commonwealth Games with three swimmers, two of them part of the country's team for the mega-event, flunking dope tests here on Sunday.

Richa Mishra