khelo india tribal games 2026

Jagdalpur, April 3 – Just 48 hours after writing her Class 12 board exams, the 17-year-old Alish Ekka found herself on the podium with a silver medal around her neck at the Khelo India Tribal Games (KITG) 2026 in Chhattisgarh. For the teenager from a nondescript village in Odisha’s Sundargarh...

Raipur, April 2 Odisha concluded its impressive campaign by winning both the men’s and women’s hockey gold medals at the Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 in Raipur, held at the Vallabhbhai Patel International Hockey Stadium. The men's final saw Odisha beat Jharkhand 4-1, while the women’s final was...

Raipur, March 31 – Shiv Kumar Soren and Prithvi Oraon, both from Jharkhand, were crowned the fastest men and women athletes in the inaugural edition of the Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 at the Kreeda Parisar ground in Jagdalpur on Tuesday. Furthermore, Siddharth Nagesh won gold and silver in the...

Raipur, March 29 – Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh each won two gold medals on the opening day of the wrestling competition in Ambikapur, while Mizoram secured two gold medals to conclude the weightlifting competition on the fifth day of the Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 here in Raipur on Sunday...

Raipur, March 28 Weightlifter Nikita ended Chhattisgarh’s hosts’ wait for a gold medal, while Odisha’s women swimmers clinched all three gold medals on offer on the fourth day of the Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 here on Saturday.Nikita dominated the women’s 77kg weightlifting event to...

Raipur, March 28 Weightlifter Nikita ended Chhattisgarh's wait for a gold medal, while Odisha's women swimmers clinched all three gold medals on offer on the fourth day of the Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 here on Saturday.Nikita dominated the women's 77kg weightlifting event, comfortably...

Raipur, March 27 – Karnataka extended their lead in the medal tally at the international swimming competition, while Chhattisgarh had its best day so far at the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games (KITG) 2026, winning one silver and two bronze medals in Raipur on Friday.Manikanta L. once again...

Raipur, March 27 “Perhaps he’s busy at the construction site,” Monikha Sonowal quipped as she tried calling her father again. Moments earlier, Monikha had won the gold medal in the women’s 48kg weightlifting category at the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 here and wanted to convey the...

In Raipur, March 26, swimmer Manikanta L. single-handedly led Karnataka to the top of the medal table as he won three more gold medals on Thursday, bringing his individual gold tally to five, while Odisha’s Anjali Munda secured a hat-trick of gold medals in the swimming competition on the second...