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Madhya Pradesh was named Best State for Promotion of Sports at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2025, recognising its strides in talent development and infrastructure. In 2024, the state celebrated three Paris Olympics medallists and four national champions, backed by a robust Rs 586 crore sports budget. Major investments included Rs 10 crore for the SAI…
Indian hockey legend P.R. Sreejesh and ace shooter Manu Bhaker hogged the limelight in the 2025 Sportstar Aces Awards held at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai on Friday. Sreejesh, who played a key role in the nation’s bronze medal win at the 2024 Paris Olympics, won the ‘Sportstar of the Year (male)’ award. Sreejesh received the award from Binod Mishra, Deputy Managing Director, State Bank Of India, and tennis…
Hockey legend M. M. Somaya stressed the importance of honouring athletes for their year-round achievements ahead of the seventh annual Sportstar Aces Awards. “These stories are inspirational and need to be told. Winning an Olympic medal is truly outstanding,” he said. Somaya, who had won a gold medal with the Indian team at the 1980 Moscow…
Olympic gold medal-winning shooter Abhinav Bindra hailed the power of sport towards the exercise of nation-building ahead of the seventh annual Sportstar Aces Awards. A member of the jury panel for the honours, Bindra acknowledged a widening of his own perspective in his assessment of the impact athletes have on society. “When I was an…
Saurashtra cricket team won the 2024 Sportstar Aces Popular Choice Award for Club of the Year at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. “I should thank Mr. Niranjan Shah, who has been the father in making the infrastructure world-class. That has helped the team and it will get better and better. We will…
Mohammed Shami won the Sporstar Aces Award for Sportsman of the Year (Team Sports) at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai on Thursday. Shami received the award at the hands of India’s batting great and chairman of the Sportstar Aces Awards jury, Sunil Gavaskar. “I am from a place that has no facilities. The awards…
Indian paraarcher Sheetal Devi won the Sportstar Aces Award for the Sportstar of the Year (female) at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. “My life changed when I went to the Shrine Board. I met my coach, Shri Kuldeep Kumar Vedwan. When I first saw archery, I never thought I could do it….
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board won Sportstar’s Sports for Social Good award at the Sportstar Aces Award in Mumbai on Thursday for using the power of sports to make a difference in the communities we are a part of. Nirmala Lakshman, Chairperson, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited presented the award to Anshul Garg,…
Australian Open men’s doubles champion Rohan Bopanna won the ‘Ace of Aces award’ at the Sportstar ACES Awards 2024 held at the Taj Mahal Palace here on Thursday. Bopanna received the award from fellow tennis player and grand slam champion, Leander Paes. “I always wished I could play doubles with Bopanna,” Paes said. Bopanna recently…
The SRM Institute of Science and Technology was awarded the Best University for the Promotion of Sports at the 2024 Sportstar ACES Awards at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. For the past two decades, SRM has dominated the inter-university, state, and national-level tournaments in and around India. In the previous Olympics, SRM-IST…
