India are grouped with China, South Korea, Oman and Bangladesh at the Asian Games in Doha.
The ace Indian pair rallied from the brink to beat the Ratiwatana brothers, Sanchai and Sonchat, of Thailand in a thrilling two-hour 43 minute final.
The women's 4 x 400 relay team comprising Sati Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, K Chitra and Pinki Pramanik was the only one to win a gold medal.
By late Saturday evening the Chinese had amassed 103 golds from 244 on offer at the Asian Games.
India has been placed in Group D along with Iran, Hong Kong and the Maldives for the football\ncompetition at the Doha Asian Games, later this year.
National champion Devendra Joshi beat Kwao Oo of Myanmar 4-2 in the semi-finals of the Asian Billiards Championships.
The Indian ace had three bogeys in the front nine to shoot two-under 70 in the final round that gave him a 15-under 273 overall and his third title of the season.
Holland missed out on a podium finish as South Korea upset them 2-1 in the Rabo Trophy hockey tournament.
Bihar's Niraj Kumar beat last year's quarter-finalist Rupesh Shah to enter the last 16 in the National snooker championship.
"All other bidders have decided to support our bid and stepped out of the race," IOA president Suresh Kalmadi said.
The two are leading with 198 each, a 12-under for three rounds, after the penultimate round of the MCG Open Golf championship.
OCA secretary-general Randhir Singh returned the athlete's Asiad gold and bronze medals at a grand ceremony.
They won the women's discuss throw and men's shot put respectively at the Afro-Asian Games.
Diwakar Prasad and Harpal Singh progressed into the semifinals of their respective boxing events.
She can expect to have her Asian Games medals returned soon, an Indian athletics official said.
She covered 6.40 metres in the long jump event at the World Indoor athletics.
Middle-distance runner said athletes from India should be prepared to take such allegations in their stride.
The medical commission of the International Olympic Committee has reportedly cleared India's ace middle distance runner of doping charges.
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The Thai lass beat Iroda Tulyaganova in the final to avenge her defeat at the Asian Games.
A grand 'Restoration of Medals'ceremony is being organised by the AAFI in Delhi.
The said OCA 'appropriate measures should be taken regarding the laboratory' at Seoul where the dope tests were carried out.
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The Asian Games 400m gold medalist said she is recovering well from the toe injury she suffered recently.
Ace high jumper Bobby Aloysious on her training stint in England.
I am totally out of practice, Sunita said after finishing fifth in the 1,500 metres.
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India continued their stranglehold in women's 4x400m relay event in the Asian Games as its quartet ran a brilliant race to win the gold for the fourth time on the trot in Games record time in the 17th edition in Incheon on Thursday.
In the case of Iran, the lifting of sanctions has paved the way for direct relations.
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Swapna Barman, on Wednesday created history by becoming the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold in Jakarta, a feat he achieved despite competing with pain due to a toothache.
Brian Hung of Hong Kong was his conqueror in the first round of the ITF Satellite tournament.
US Olympic medallist Dawson was born in South Korea's Busan where, at the age of three, he was separated from his mother in a bustling marketplace.
Olympian Ankita Das lost to China's Chen Meng 0-4 in the pre-quarters while national champion K Shamini and seasoned Mouma Das made third round exits as the Indian challenge in the women's singles event came to end at the Asian TT Championships, in Busan, Korea on Friday.
India entered the Davis Cup World Group play-offs after a historic away triumph over South Korea following Somdev Devvarman's victory over Yong-Kyu Lim in the reverse singles of the Group I Asia/Oceania second round tie, in Busan, on Sunday. Somdev won the first reverse singles 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to make the overall scoreline 3-1 in favour of India, rendering the second reverse singles inconsequential, leading to its cancellation.
Yuki Bhambri returned to India's Davis Cup squad for the World Group play-off tie against world No 2 Serbia, as the selectors named a six-member squad on expected lines. Somdev Devvarman, the country's No 1 singles player, will lead the squad.
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