Sports, like wrestling, hockey, cricket, shooting & table tennis, where India performs well, have been removed from the scaled-back programme for the Games in Glasgow.
In an exclusive interview with ThePrint, Manu Bhaker, who scripted history by winning 2 medals at Paris Olympics, talks about newfound fame, shooting as a sport & taking a break to catch her breath.
Bhaker won a bronze each in women’s 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team event — where she had paired with Sarabjot Singh — to script Olympic history for the country.
Pune-based shooter becomes first Indian to win a medal in 50m Rifle Three Positions event at Olympics. All three medals in Paris have come from shooting so far.
Babuta shot a total of 208.4 in the air rifle individual final. A last shot of 9.5, in response to Croatian Miran Maricic's 10.7, put paid to his hopes of finishing on the podium.
Bhaker is India's 1st female shooter to win an Olympic medal, ending a 12-yr drought for India in the sport. She will now compete for bronze in the 10m air pistol mixed team event.
Mumbai Crime Branch says Choudhary had done a recce of Salman Khan’s apartment building on 12 April & sent a video of it to Anmol Vishnoi, who played a key role in motivating shooters.
For the last 3 years, Mauris Noronha had been branding himself as a politician. It was this political ambition that’s believed to be at the root of Thursday’s shooting.
Mauris Noronha shot former Mumbai corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar, with whom he had a running feud, dead on Facebook Live Thursday. Incident has led to political row in Maharashtra.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Understandable.
Indian athletes hardly win any medals in the Olympics or even the Asian Games. It’s only in the Commonwealth Games, that they manage to get a bountiful harvest.
Understandable.
Indian athletes hardly win any medals in the Olympics or even the Asian Games. It’s only in the Commonwealth Games, that they manage to get a bountiful harvest.