Modi on Saturday hosted the Indian contingent at his residence to felicitate the players in New Delhi.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal's heroics went in vein as India went down to China 1-3 in the quarter-final to bow out of men's team event on the third day of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Diya Chitale and Manush Shah had also sought the HC's intervention in the matter.
Coaches Jayanta Pushilal and S Raman have been nominated for the Dronacharya honour.
Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag, Paralympic silver-medallist Deepa Malik and hockey stalwart Sardar Singh were on Friday included in a 12-member committee constituted by the sports ministry to select this year's National Sports Awards winners. Just like last year, the ministry opted for a single selection committee to pick the awardees among both athletes and coaches and it will be headed by Retired Supreme Court Justice, Mukundakam Sharma.
Olympian Neha Aggarwal and Soumi Mondal moved into the semi-finals after thumping victories in the table tennis competition at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Wednesday. In the boys' singles, sixth seed Soumyajit Ghosh and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran also stormed into the semi-final league.
Both the teams registered identical 3-0 victories in their respective matches.
Achantha Sharath Kamal surrendered 1-4 to Austria's Chen Weixing in the second round of the men's singles at the Beijing Olympics.
Sreeshankar said featuring consistently at top international events, like the Diamond Leagues, will be his focus going forward.
The 37th All India Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championships is scheduled to kick off in New Delhi on Saturday.
Gao Ning was India's nemesis as Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and his compatriots went down to Singapore 1-3 and finished runners-up in the men's team event of the 18th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship in Glasgow on Saturday. The Indian team, which put up brilliant efforts to notch seven consecutive wins and enter the final, failed to live up to expectations when it mattered most.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal went down fighting to Gionis Panagiotis of Greece in a third round match as India's campaign in the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, ended on Friday. World number 85 Sharath lost 12-10, 9-11, 11-13, 13-11, 8-11, 8-11.
It was another golden day for India's shooters at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday as Samaresh Jung claimed a fourth gold medal.
All the Indian players in contention qualified for the main draw at the Chile Open Table Tennis championships.
Top seed Achanta Sharath Kamal overcame a stiff resistance from unseeded Sanil Shetty of Air India to emerge champion in the Inter Institutional Table Tennis Championship at Ajmer on Sunday.
A budding table tennis player suddenly died after being allegedly beaten up by his father, who was not happy with his recent performances.
Top Indian Achanta Sharath Kamal received a mauling from Dimitrij Ovtcharov in a lopsided semi-final and the German then downed Korean Seo Hyun Deok to lift the men's singles title in the ITTF Indian Open Pro Tour Table Tennis tournament, which concluded on Sunday.
Family members and friends of paddler Bhavina Patel broke into the traditional 'garba' dance, burst firecrackers and smeared each other with 'gulal' at her native Sundhiya village in Gujarat's Mehsana district to celebrate her historic silver medal at the Paralympic Games.
Kiren Rijiju exuded confidence that India would put up a better show in the 2024 Games but the main focus remains on the 2028 edition.
Neha Aggarwal and Soumi Mondal were beaten in the semi-finals in straight games in the girls' singles of the table tennis competition of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Thursday. Neha was beaten by Isabelle Li 5-11, 6-11, 6-11, 9-11 in just 28 minutes, while Soumi Mondal was victim of another Singaporean, Kai Xin Zena Sim, losing 14-16, 10-12, 4-11, 4-11.
R Praggnanandhaa was far from realising the enormity of his achievement in the FIDE World Cup but reckoned his incredible run could force people to "start noticing" Indian chess.
The National champions, both representing PSEB, won the men and women's singles titles respectively in the Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Championship.
The ace Indian paddler got the better of Spain's Spaniard Alfredo Carneros 6-11, 12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7 at the Peking University Gymnasium in Beijing on Tuesday morning.
Reader Bharath sent us this picture from Hyderabad.
'The win will change a lot of things in Praggu... the confidence in his potential will be one of them. The win has ensured a lot of visibility which will give him a lot of opportunities.'
Indian men beat Scotland 3-1 in the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
India were ousted from the men's championship division when England beat them 3-2 in the pre-quarterfinals
Indian junior paddlers won three silver and five bronze medals in the STIGA Canadian Junior Open table tennis tournament.
India's top paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal beat Segun Toriola of Nigeria 11-6, 15-13, 11-8, 11-3 in the semi-final
India pulled off a huge upset, beating Nigeria 3-2 in the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games.
The shooters bagged three gold and one silver medal in five events that took India's tally to four gold and three silver after two days.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal is hoping for a good showing in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships that get underway in Lucknow on Monday to boost his ranking.
India's national champion beat the Brazilian to advance to the quarter-finals of the inaugural Indian Open table tennis championships.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) on Tuesday termed Manika Batra's decision to not take the help of national coach Soumyadeep Roy during her matches at the Tokyo Olympics as a brazen 'act of indiscipline'.
Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta begin their campaign in the men's badminton tournament.
Achanta Sharath Kamal is pitted against Mohamed Boudjadja of Algeria in the first round of the men's singles while Mouma Das faces Nanthana Komwong of Thailand in the women's singles.
Indian athletes are undergoing rigorous training sessions to acclimatise themselves to the conditions in this historic city.
India's leading table tennis player Sharath Kamal, who was ignored for Padma Shri, feels the existing awards application system makes the athletes beg for the honour.
The Indians had to make the 5-1 lead count in the first game to have any chance in the match but Lin and Cheng won eight points in a row to gain control.
