Tokyo should remain the benchmark and source of inspiration till at least Paris 2024. In the shorter run, India's preparations for the Asian and Commonwealth Games next year must begin based on lessons learnt now, asserts Raj Kishore Mishra, former joint secretary at the sports ministry.
Anjali Bhagwat was way off the mark, finishing a disappointing 20th in the women's 50 metres rifle prone competition on Monday.
Suma Shirur won bronze in the women's 10m air rifle event at the international Air Gun Competition.
Bollywood celebrated Raksha Bandhan with their siblings over the weekend, and posted lovely pictures on Instagram.
India bagged three gold, one silver, and two bronze medals at the Asian Air Gun Shooting championships.
With an objective of increasing the state's share in IT business, Kerala government would set up a technocity as part of the fourth phase of expansion of technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Wednesday.
India's medal rush at the shooting range in Melbourne continued
Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu scored 500.6 points and 500.2 respectively to equal the Commonwealth Games' record.
India's shooters struck it rich at the Commonwealth Games on Friday morning, winning three gold medals and a silver.
His comments a day after a ruling Congress MLA demanded that Siddaramaiah be made the chief minister again.
Ace shooters Anjali Bhagwat and Suma Shirur failed to hold on to their place in team for air rifle event at the Commonwealth Games
India now have three gold, three silver and three bronze medals after four days of competition.
India's unhindered supremacy in the kabaddi competition at the Asian Games continued as both the men's and women's teams successfully defended their respective gold medals with hard-fought final triumphs over Iran in Incheon on Friday.
A look at the hits and flops of the week.
As ceasefire violations by Pakistan continued unabated, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on said Islamabad does not seem to learn any lesson.
The focus is firmly trained on teen sensation Manu Bhaker as the fancied Indian shooting team eyes a head start at the 21st Commonwealth Games
Check out the complete schedule of Indian athletes at the Tokyo Olympics
Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai and young Mehuli Ghosh failed to make the Indian shooting squad for the upcoming Asian Games, even as a few unheralded faces were picked for the quadrennial extravaganza, starting in Indonesia, from August 18.
Hitting the target with monotonous regularity, Indian shooters' dominance in a phenomenal 2019, at times, made world events look like domestic tourneys. Indian shooting's best show at the Olympics remains the two medals won at London in 2012, but if the shooters' exploits in recent months are anything to go by, the country can easily emulate or better that in Tokyo.
The 26th edition of the Pune Festival kick-started on Friday evening with a host of celebrities from Bollywood and Maharashtra politics in attendance.
His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage, set in the backdrop of the civil war.
The 10-day Ganpati festival has commenced with devotees welcoming home Lord Ganesha with much fanfare!
India thus remained on top of the medals tally with eight medals, while China is in second with two gold, two silver, one bronze.
Apurvi Chandela won the gold in the women's 10 metres air rifle event on the concluding day of the 58th National Shooting Championships.
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Tejaswini Gowda, a former Congress leader in Karnataka who is now with the Bharatiya Janata Party, lambasted her old party, saying it rewarded women leaders in the party only if they danced to the tune of the male politicians.
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Six-time champions India notched up their third win on the trot with a 23-11 victory over arch-rivals Pakistan to top their group and storm into the semi-finals of the men's kabaddi competitions at the Asian Games in Incheon.
The Indian men ended their campaign in the pistol events on a winning note, shooting down a silver medal in the 25m centre fire event even as the women's team exited from the 50m three-position competition without success at the Asian Games, on Friday. The men pistol shooters - spearheaded by London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar - clinched second place with a total score of 1740, two behind gold medallists China.
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Desipite good reviews, Baby and Dolly Ki Doli don't work at the box office.
Manika Batra cruised to the semi-finals of the women's singles even as experienced paddler Mouma Das ended her campaign in the Commonwealth Games table tennis event.
Check out India's schedule on Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Thursday.
A look at the star arrivals.
'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.' 'But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the purity that shines behind that daftness?' asks Sreehari Nair.
