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Indian Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol team bags silver medal at ISSF World Cup

The Indian men’s 25m rapid fire pistol team of Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu and Sameer clinched the silver medal at ISSF World Cup Changwon 2022 in South Korea. With this medal, India retained the top spot on the medals table with five gold, six silver and four bronze. South Korea has finished with four golds, five silver and three bronze medals. This is the […]

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Harshada clinches gold at Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship

Harshada Garud has clinched the gold with an aggregate of 157kg (69kg+88kg), in the women’s 45kg gold at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Soumya Dalvi has bagged the bronze in the 45kg category of the youth event. In the men’s 49 kg youth event, L Dhanush has won the bronze with an 85 kg effort. Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports: Anurag Thakur

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West Indies Cricketers Lendl Simmons & Denesh Ramdin Announce Retirement

Former West Indies skipper Denesh Ramdin announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. He played his last match for West Indies in a T20I in December 2019. However, he will continue to play franchise cricket. He has played 74 Tests, 139 ODIs and 71 T20Is. He started out in Test cricket, making his debut against

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Indian Grandmaster, Aravindh Chithambaram wins tournament in Spain

Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram has won the 41st Villa De Benasque International Chess Open title, after defeating Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenia) and Raunak Sadhwani on the basis of tie-break score. Chithambaram, Hovhannisyan and Sadhwani finished on eight points from 10 rounds along with seven others. Raunak Sadhwani has finished in third place behind the Armenian. Chithambaram is also a former national champion. Chithambaram

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Mairaj Ahmad Khan becomes first Indian to win gold in men’s Skeet at ISSF

Two-time Olympian, Mairaj Ahmad Khan has created history by becoming the first Indian shooter to win the gold medal in the men’s skeet event at 2022 ISSF World Cup in Changwon, South Korea. He has recorded 37 hits out of a possible 40 in the final to win gold. Minsu Kim from South Korea has bagged silver medal, while Ben Llewellin of Great Britain won bronze.

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Australia Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt inducted into Hall of Fame

Two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one, Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Before Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic ascended to the top of the sport, Hewitt held the top spot for 80 weeks, good for 10th-most in history. Even when those stars made their mark. The Aussie icon won

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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wins 5th World 100m Title in Eugene, Oregon

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) has clinched her record fifth world 100m title in Eugene, Oregon. She has previously won the blue riband event in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019, won in a championship record of 10.67 seconds. Shericka Jackson (Jamaica) won silver in a personal best of 10.73sec and four-time Olympic sprint champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) has claimed bronze (10.81). Fred Kerley from

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British Parliament felicitated BCCI President Sourav Ganguly

Former India captain and current BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly was felicitated by the British Parliament. The Indian cricket legend was felicitated on the same date July 13 when he led India to Natwest final win in 2002 and exactly 20 years later on the same day he was honoured in the same city. He was elected as the President

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Singapore Open 2022: PV Sindhu wins first Super 500 title

Indian badminton star PV Sindhu won the women’s singles title at the Singapore Open 2022 BWF Super 500 tournament after beating Chinese shuttler Wang Zhi Yi in the final on Sunday. PV Sindhu, seventh in the badminton world rankings, took 58 minutes to defeat world No. 11 Wang Zhi Yi 21-9, 11-21, 21-15. In men’s Single: Anthony Sinisuka Ginting won the

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Mehuli Ghosh and Shahu Tushar Mane clinch second gold in ISSF World Cup

The duo of Mehuli Ghosh and Shahu Tushar Mane bagged second gold medal for India in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup stage in South Korea. Indian team defeated Eszter Meszaros and Istvan Pen from the Hungary by 17-13. Another Indian duo of Palak and Shiva Narwal bagged bronze in the 10m Air Pistol mixed

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