India's overall tally of 107 medals accounted for 6.7% of the total medals up for grabs. But its 29 medals in athletics made up 20.1% of the total track & field medals on offer.
Jena speaks about his Asian Games 2023 experience, 1st encounter with javelin throw, relationship with Neeraj Chopra, training regime & plans for Paris Olympics.
Punia, who lost out at Asian Games, was supported by fellow wrestlers & INDIA alliance. The Oppn bloc lauded him for ‘facing a goon, while demanding justice for women wrestlers’.
This was India’s third gold in women’s kabaddi. India won gold in the 2010 and 2014 editions but settled for a silver in 2018 after losing to Iran in the final.
Kim's lift, achieved with the 20-year-old's third snatch of the women's final, eclipsed the previous record of 110kg set in 2021 by Taiwan's star weightlifter, Kuo Hsing-chun.
MP and besieged former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh questions ad-hoc committee's decision to give direct entry to Asiad to Bajrang Punia & Vinesh Phogat.
Cui only took up skateboarding in 2020 when China's Covid restrictions meant she could not practice rollerblading, which she began as a three-year-old.
The triumvirate of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan totaled 1759 to finish on top of the podium and help the country clinch its fourth gold medal at the Asian Games.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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