The Indian paddlers marched steadily in the preliminary rounds in the individual events of the SAF Games.
Indian men beat Scotland 3-1 in the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
Commonwealth and national champion Sharath Kamal turned in a smart display to defeat Boudjadja Mohamed in the first round of the men's singles table tennis competition.
India celebrated a rare moment of success in international table tennis as Soumyajit Ghosh clinched the Under-21 men's title while Manika Batra bagged the Under-21 women's trophy at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour Brazil Open at Santos.
India went down 1-3 to the Czech Republic in the women's division of the World Table Tennis Championships.
Mouma Das played a stellar role in a 3-2 victory over Canada in the play-off at the Commonwealth Games
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.
Their men's and women's teams won the gold medal in the National Games table tennis team event.
The top women's table tennis player Zhang Yining broke her tailbone during a training session in Zhengding in Hebei province.
They respectively claimed the sub-junior boys and girls' titles in the 66th Nat. Sub-Junior and Inter-state Table Tennis championships.
Paralympic gold-winners Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil, Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Manish Narwal were also given the Khel Ratna at a dazzling awards ceremony on Saturday.
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
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 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.
Achanta Sharath Kamal lost his second round match to 25th ranked Lai Chak Ko of Hong Kong.
In an embarrassment to India, the country has been warned of heavy penalty by the Olympic Council of Asia if it withdraws from sending teams in a few disciplines in the upcoming Asian Games, a development which led to the IOA slamming some government officials for "ruining sport".
Batra will now take on Singapore's Jian Zeng in the last eight-clash later tonight.
Thakur lauded her and all others who finished on the podium, presenting them with mementos to honour their feats.
Left bed-ridden for close to 10 years after falling off a cliff, Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar scripted an astonishing tale of resilience by clinching a bronze medal in the men's F52 event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday but a protest has put his celebrations on hold for now.
Olympics-related cases rose by 19, organisers said, bringing the total number of disclosed cases to 106.
All these male politicians are unlikely to risk their sinecures to speak up in support of a bunch of women wrestlers who have chosen to challenge a politician who appears to have the ruling regime in a stranglehold, points out Kanika Datta.
Also seen in action for India will be the shuttlers, boxers, the women's hockey team and the table tennis players among others.
This was due to the fact that they had already won the Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honour.
Shah recently visited the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
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.
The Chennai paddler feels that it's about time that he changes colour of the medal to gold during the upcoming edition in Gold Coast.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
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.
Soumyajit Ghosh has married his accuser after his career nose-dived owing to the crisis.
Rediff.com introduces you to the athletes who have brought India glory in Birmingham.
Asian Games gold medal-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Tuesday donated a total of Rs 3 lakh to the central and Haryana state relief funds to combat the coronavirus pandemic in India. Chopra is currently in self-isolation at the National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala after flying back from a training trip in Turkey.
Virat Kohli sent the shutterbugs into a clicking frenzy as he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
Results of the Indian athletes on Day 1 at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
It was largely made possible by Manika Batra, who ended up winning four medals, the most by an Indian in Gold Coast.
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.
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.
