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The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) will collect samples from all medal winners at the ongoing National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships instead of taking random samples for testing

The clause 19 of Bill provides NADA power of 'entry, search and seizure by any person authorised by agency for purpose of determining if any anti-doping rule violation has been committed'

Satnam Singh Bhamara, the first Indian player to be drafted into an NBA team in 2015, has been handed a two-year ban by the NADA disciplinary panel for failing a dope test last year

The suspension prohibits the NDTL from carrying out any anti-doping activities, including all analyses of urine and blood samples

The app aims to create a bridge between athletes and the Nada by providing easily accessible information on various aspects of sport

Five centrally contracted Indian cricketers including Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul have been issued notices by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for failing to disclose their whereabouts as the BCCI cited "password glitch" as the reason for delay. The other players to have received the notice include women stars Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma, who are among the five cricketers in the 110 strong National Registered Testing Pool (NRTP). Speaking to PTI, NADA DG Navin Agarwal confirmed that BCCI has sent an official explanation for their five NRTP players' failure to submit whereabouts. "There are two ways to fill up the whereabouts form in the ADAMS (Anti Doping Administration & Management Systems) software. Either athlete does it himself or association fills it up on his or her behalf," Agarwal said. "Now athletes in some discipline aren't educated enough or do not have access to internet and find themselves unable to handle the whereabouts clause of the ...

There was no sample collection during the lockdown phase but Nada had to follow the guidelines and sent notices to all those athletes who failed to submit their 'whereabouts' three months in advance

Nada has also issued notices to athletes who failed to provide their whereabouts, adding that if an athlete fails three such notices, he/she can be suspended for a period of up to four years

Nada has yet to officially announce its decision, but Amritpal Singh is learnt to have accepted a provisional suspension effective from May 19

More than 150 athletes from various sports such as athletics, hockey, boxing, shooting, archery, badminton, tennis and wrestling will be tested

The BCCI was earlier this month forced to come under NADA's ambit, a landmark development that has opened up possibility of cricket board becoming a National Sports Federation as per government norms

The NDTL has been instructed to stop all testing procedures with immediate effect and all the samples need to be safely moved to an accredited lab

Having stalled the ministry's near decade long attempts to bring BCCI under the NADA fold, the Board finally relented on Friday, a move that could have far-reaching implications in the near future.

Nada will hit the Tamil Nadu coast on December 2, resulting in very heavy rainfall in the northern part of the state

IMD said Wednesday's depression over Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm Nada