Poonia or Punia or Puniya is a clan (or gotra) of Jats. [1] [2]
The Khel Ratna Award, officially known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award or formerly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is the highest sporting honour of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.
Aulakh is a Jat clan in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
Sangwan is a surname of the Jat people found in the Indian states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Malhotra is a Punjabi surname of the Dhai Ghar sub-group of Khatris from Punjab. Malhotra is a modified Punjabi language version of Mehrotra. Families with last name Malhotra can be Hindu or Sikh.
Seema Punia-Antil is an Indian discus thrower.Her personal best throw is 64.84 m,achieved in Kyiv in 2004.
Prabhu means master or prince in Sanskrit and many of the Indian languages; it is a name sometimes applied to God.
Ahmed Khan may refer to:
Krishna Poonia is an international gold-medalist Indian discus thrower, track-and-field athlete, 2 times Olympics participant, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award recipient, politician from the Congress party and the former MLA from Sadulpur constituency in Rajasthan. She participated in 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. In 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, she won a gold medal. She was appointed the President Of the Rajasthan State Sports Council in February 2022.
Bindra is a Punjabi surname found among Hindu Khatris and Sikh Jatts. Many Bindras, along with many other Hindu Khatri clans were native to the Rawalpindi district of West Punjab before the Partition of India.
Gagarwas is a small village in Rajgarh (Sadulpur) tehsil of Churu district in Rajasthan, India, it is situated approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from Sadulpur.
Sohal is a Principal clan found among the Malwai speaking lineage of Jat Sikh, which were originated from Sohal township both settled by Hari Singh Dhillon, they were primarily related to Deo, hayer as well Aulak and avoid intermarriage among them. In modern time Sohal is a chiefly found in Amritsar and Doaba region.
In India, the Athletics was introduced during the period of the British Raj. The sport is governed by the Athletics Federation of India, which was formed in 1946.
Bidhwan is a village and administrative unit with a democratically elected panchayat samiti in the Loharu, Siwani Tehsil of Bhiwani District under Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency and Hisar Division of Haryana state, India.
Sandhu or Sindhu is the second largest clan of Jats in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. The Sandhus played an important role in the Sikh history. During the period of the Sikh Confederacy, Sandhus ruled several sovereign states (misls) including the Nakai Misl, Shaheedan Misl and the Kanhaiya Misl.
Bhardwaj is a surname used by Brahmins relating to sage Bharadwaja gotra and Vishwabrahmins in India.
Navjeet Kaur Dhillon is an Indian track and field athlete who competes as a Discus thrower. Her current world ranking in the Women's Discus Throw category is 46, and in the Women's Overall ranking is 4165. She was the bronze medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, with her final throw of 57.43 m and became the second Indian to win a medal at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in 2014. She holds a personal best of 59.18 m, set in 2018 in Indian Grand Prix in February, 2018.
Kamalpreet Kaur is an Indian athlete from Punjab. She is the first Indian woman to breach the 65m barrier in discus throw. She is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. Her best performance came when she finished 6th in discus throw at Tokyo 2020.
Antil may refer to:
Seema also spelled Sima, Sema is an Indian feminine given name meaning 'limit/boundary/frontier'.
The two groups of Jats involved in the marriage belonged to the Punia and the Sangwan got.