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The Economic Times
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India to criminalise doping supply chains to boost bid to host Olympics

NEW DELHI: India plans to amend its anti-doping law to make peddling banned substances a crime, Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday, in a potential boost to the country's bid to host the 2036 Olympic Games in Ahmedabad.

India has topped the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of offenders for three consecutive years, underscoring the scale of the challenge facing the world's most populous nation.

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