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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
TopicGold medal

Topic: Gold medal

Women’s kabaddi team beats Chinese Taipei, regains Asian Games gold for India’s 100th medal

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.

India bags gold in men’s 10m air pistol segment at Asian Games

The Indian trio's aggregate score of 1734 was just one better than Chinese team, which settled for the silver medal, while Vietnam, with a score of 1730, bagged the bronze.

Makeshift gym, no money for chicken, odd jobs—What’s behind Achinta Sheuli’s CWG gold

In West Bengal’s Deulpur village, Achinta Sheuli’s mother is happy people are finally ‘enquiring about us’. Brother Alok wants Achinta to ‘win Olympics gold next’.

Hima Das’ ‘gold’ in CWG exposes ignorance about all things not cricket

The ace sprinter’s phenomenal win at the junior world championships in Finland in 2018 is being lapped up as a ‘gold’ in the ongoing CWG.

Haider Ali, the Pakistani gold medalist who bunked classes for long-jump training

PM Imran Khan congratulated the athlete saying, ‘his discus throw of 55.26m won him the medal, making the whole Pakistan proud.’

Shooter Avani Lekhara wins bronze, becomes first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals

Lekhara clinched bronze in the Women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 at the Tokyo Paralympics. Earlier this week, the 19-year-old had become the first woman to win a gold at the Games.

Neeraj Chopra is the crown prince of javelin & Indians should be excited about his future

Chopra’s gold medal winning performance at the Jakarta Asiad is even more heartening because of the distances he’s already achieving at the age of 20.

Indian tennis pair Rohan Bopanna & Divij Sharan win men’s doubles gold at Asian Games

This is India's 6th gold medal at Jakarta Asian Games. 

Snap out of the big fat Greek depression, cut the medal claptrap

Over the century leading up to Athens 2004, India won no more than 15 Olympic medals, 11 of these in hockey. So while competing at Olympics, we must always maintain perspective.

On Camera

Sanjeev Sanyal says UPSC is poverty of aspiration. But it’s more about desperation

The most productive years of Indian youth gets wasted preparing for the UPSC. But they didn't create this system; the government did.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Taiwan reports Chinese military activity around the island

Taiwan has detected a total of 301 Chinese military aircraft and 165 Chinese naval vessels so far in 2024.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.