The duo accounted for Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulami Ghatak respectively to lift the men's and women's table tennis singles gold medals.
The team, comprising National champion Achanta Sharath Kamal, Soumyadeep Roy and Subhajit Saha, routed Pakistan 3-0 in the final.\n\n
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 2 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:
Indian women thrashed Spain 3-0 to win a promotion to the first division of the next edition of World Team Table Tennis championship.
The Indian women blanked Austria 3-0 in their final league encounter at the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
He beat Portugal's Tiago Apolonia at the Chile Open table tennis tournament.
Athletes and officials from eight disciplines of archery, badminton, table tennis, hockey, judo, gymnastics, swimming and weightlifting landed in Tokyo
China has expelled four table-tennis players in accordance to an unwritten law in the country that bans romance while training.
Mountaineer Bachendri Pal was, on Friday, conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, while Gautam Gambhir, BajranG Punia and Sunil Chhetri, among others, received the Padma Shri.
Nandita Saha and Sourav Chakraborty went down tamely in the quarter-finals.
Chinese Taipei pulled of an upset, beating China in the boys' semi-finals in the Asian Jr TT championships.
Vijay Rao and Hasit Zatia won the men's doubles at the event.
All four who made the main draw of the World TT meet were beaten by higher-ranked opponents.
Nandita Saha and Visakha Vijay lost in straight games
Table tennis player Manika Batra, who will be conferred with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award this year, said that the accolade would spur her to bring more laurels for the country.
Pint-sized 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya took gold in street skateboarding -- new to the Olympics in Tokyo -- while in one of the Games's staple sports a "Terminator" hunted down a dominator to set the swimming pool alight.
Soumyajit Ghosh has married his accuser after his career nose-dived owing to the crisis.
Korea's Ryu Seung-min upset Wang Hao to win gold in the men's singles final and disrupt China's domination of Olympic table tennis.
Zhang Yining whipped North Korea's Kim Hyang-mi to win the women's table tennis final and give China its 100th gold medal since joining Olympic competition in 1984.
China's Wang Nan took her third gold medal, teaming up with Zhang Yining to beat Lee Eun-sil and Seok Eun-mi of South Korea 4-0 in the women's table tennis doubles.
Achanta Sharath Kamal lost his second round match to 25th ranked Lai Chak Ko of Hong Kong.
Shah recently visited the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Andy Roddick said on Saturday he was honoured to have played in the era of the Big Four, but also acknowledged that they caused him no end of frustration during his career.
Calls from athletes and federations for a delay in the Games, which is scheduled to run from July 24 to Aug. 9, have intensified as the flu-like virus has brought sport to a grinding halt across the world.
Indian paddlers continued their impressive run as they outshone Malaysia to cruise into the semifinals of both men's and women' team events on day three of competitions in the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
India's lone Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Saturday criticised the selection panel for not nominating seasoned coach Jaspal Rana for the Dronacharya Award.
Heptathlete Swapna Barman added a dash of heroism to her historic gold medal
Flag bearer Tek Chand will lead the Indian contingent -- India will be represented by 54 para athletes, the biggest ever contingent in the history of the Games.
The nation of 1.3 billion people was glued to television sets as early as 5am, following the fortunes of Aditi Ashok, who after three days, was lying second and in line for an unprecedented medal in golf at the Olympics.
Virat Kohli sent the shutterbugs into a clicking frenzy as he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
If only the shooters had found their targets, the story would have been so different! sighs Raj Kishore Mishra.
A summary of Indian athletes' performances on Sunday, August 7, Day 10 of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
India's leading player Sharath Kamal overcame a sluggish start to beat Portugal's Tiago Apolonia in the men's singles second round, while the women challenge ended with Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee losing to their superior opponents at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
Two athletes residing in the Olympic village tested positive for COVID-19.
The sheer diversity of medal winners was a heartwarming aspect of the Games for India. There were medals from squash, although not gold, there were nine medals from boxing, 12 from wrestling, 16 from shooting and nine from weightlifting.
China will host the third edition of the Asian Youth Games in Shantou in November next year, the Olympic Council of Asia said. The OCA has decided to hold the Asian Youth Games from November 20 to 28. The host city was decided by the OCA in 2019 but the dates of the multi-sporting event was announced on Wednesday.
For the 12th successive time, none could match up to India's regional might but the host country's record-breaking medal haul of 308 can hardly hide the fact that the standard of competition in the South Asian Games has failed to rise significantly.
The Azlan Shah Cup is the latest sporting event to be hit by the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives and infected 86,000 people across the world.
A look at the historic achievements by India's athletes in 2022.
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