India

India’s attempts to secure the hosting rights for the 2019 Asian Games have collapsed after the country failed to meet an extended deadline to submit a bid.

The Olympic Council of Asia has turned down a request from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to extend a deadline for a bid to be submitted to host the 2019 Asian Games.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has welcomed India’s interest in hosting the 2019 Asian Games as it seeks to find a replacement destination for its showpiece event.

The operators of the Indian Super League (ISL) have struck a strategic partnership with the English Premier League (EPL) that will aim to develop the new club football tournament.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has asked its members to offer their thoughts on a bid from the country to host the 2019 Asian Games.

This third annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets takes our research wider and deeper than before. Wider, because the number of territories covered has increased from 10 to 14, with the inclusion this year of important growth markets such as India, Indonesia, Japan and Turkey. Deeper, because we have asked questions designed to burrow down into new areas, such as consumers’ second-screen activities, that have not been properly examined until now.

N. Srinivasan has failed in a second appeal to India’s Supreme Court for reinstatement as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for affairs not relating to the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) is poised to end India’s exile as an officially recognised member of the world governing body after it announced it has approved the creation of a new national organisation.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is keen to bring the 2019 Asian Games to Delhi and is hopeful of securing backing from the country’s next central government to proceed with a bid.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has moved to suspend the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) after former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi was declared the winner of the state governing body’s presidential elections.

India’s Supreme Court has rejected N. Srinivasan’s request for reinstatement as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), revealing that the influential figure is one of 13 individuals named in a secret envelope submitted to it by the Justice Mudgal committee investigating alleged corruption in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The much-hyped Indian Super League (ISL) took another major step towards its launch on Sunday as the likes of Spanish Liga club Atletico Madrid, cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar (pictured) and Sourav Ganguly and Bollywood stars were confirmed as owners of the eight teams that will compete in the new football competition.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed that the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will return to India on May 2, following the opening exchanges of the Twenty20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has been appointed as the interim head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India after the country’s Supreme Court forced N. Srinivasan to step down as president of the governing body.

India’s Supreme Court has proposed that former India cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar temporarily replaces the under-pressure N. Srinivasan as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), adding that the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should not compete in the 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL) amid the spot-fixing and betting scandal engulfing the competition.

India’s Supreme Court has called on N. Srinivasan, the head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), to step down from his role to enable an investigation to take place into illegal betting during last year’s Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.