The 23-year-old para-athlete from Haryana sent the spear to 68.55m in his 5th attempt. Australian Michal Burian & Sri Lanka's Dulan Kodithuwakku won silver & bronze respectively.
The other Indian golfer in fray, Diksha Dagar remained in the lower half of the leaderboard after an erratic one-over 72, her third successive over-par card of the week.
In an interview with ThePrint, badminton champ PV Sindhu talks about importance of mental health, the difference between training under Gopichand and Park, and how she trained for Tokyo.
In another wrestling match, Anshu Malik bowed out of the women's freestyle 57kg competition after losing her repechage round 1-5 to Russia's Valeria Koblova.
India scored three field goals through Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh and Hardik Singh to seal a 3-1 victory, and will face Belgium in the semifinals Tuesday.
Sindhu defeated China's He Bing Jiao in straight sets in the women's singles third-place play-off to add a bronze medal to her silver that she had secured at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Five-time Paralympian shooter Naresh Sharma said that the plea would be infructuous if it is heard on 6 August as the last date of selection for shooting in Tokyo games is 2 August.
Panghal bowed out of the Olympics with a stunning 1-4 loss to Rio Games silver-medallist and Atanu Das lost to Takaharu Furukawa 6-4 in an intense five-setter on Saturday.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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