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Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with medal winners who brought glory to the nation at the recently concluded 18th Asian games. Prime Minister Modi congratulated the sportsmen and women as well as their coaches and support teams for the outstanding achievement at Jakarta. India won a total of 69 medals ... Read More »

Closing ceremony of 18th Asian Games will be held in Jakarta today. Women’s hockey team captain Rani Rampal has been named India’s flag-bearer for the closing ceremony of the Asian Games 2018. India ended their Asian Games campaign with a total of 69 medals, including 15 gold, 24 silver and ... Read More »

Boxer Amit Panghal got past the Olympic Champion Hasanboy Dusmatov to win a gold medal in men’s 49kg category. In a tough final bout, the 22-year-old Indian boxer didn’t get bogged down and kept landing his punches even as the Uzbek tried to overpower him. Panghal was the lone Indian ... Read More »

Akashdeep Singh and Harmnapreet Singh scored for India while Mohammed Atiq found the back of the net for the Pak team.  Akash scored in the 3rd minute while Harmanpreet doubled the lea, finding the target in the 50th minute through the 1st penalty corner.  Pakistan pulled one back in the ... Read More »

India enjoyed a productive day at the 18th Asian Games, adding 5 medals to its tally to take their medal count to 59. Gold rush continued in track and field events. Jinson Johnson won a gold in the men’s 1500m race.  Indian women’s 4x400m team clinched their fifth consecutive gold ... Read More »

The 28-year-old Manjit ran his personal best time of 1 minute and 46.15 seconds to win his maiden major international medal. Johnson, who smashed legendary Sriram Singh’s 42-year-old 800m national record in June during the National Inter-State Athletics Championships, finished second in 1:46.35. He holds the national record of 1:45.65. ... Read More »

No Indian had ever reached the final of a singles event at the Asian Games before the 23-year-old from Hyderabad, who lost 13-21 16-21 to Chinese Taipei’s Tai in just 34 minutes. It is the first time that India has won two individual medals at the Asian Games with Saina ... Read More »

Coming into the final, Neeraj had a personal best throw of 87.43m from May this year and his biggest competitor for the gold was expected to be Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Chao Tsun. But just one throw into Monday’s event and it became pretty evident that Neeraj was going to be ... Read More »

Tajinder Pal Singh Toor brought India its seventh gold medal by winning the men’s shot put event with an Asian Games record throw of 20.75 meters in Jakarta on Saturday. Tajinder is the first Indian to win the men’s shot put gold at the Asian Games since Bahadur Singh Sagoo, ... Read More »

Dipka lost her semifnal to defending champion Malaysia’s Nicol David. The 26-year-old suffered a defeat in straight sets against the former World number one 3-0 (7-11, 9-11 and 6-11). Later in the day, Chinappa failed to match up to the level of her 19-year-old opponent Sivasangari Subramaniam losing 1-3 (10-12 ... Read More »

Bopanna and Sharan, who don’t have much experience of playing together, played a solid match against Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Bublik and Denis Yevseyev to bag India’s second gold of the day.’ Less than 20 minutes into the match, the Indians were 4-1 ahead, breaking Bublik and Yevseyev at the very first ... Read More »

He is in 9th standard, just 15 years old and already an Asian Games silver medallist. Indian double trap shooter Shardul Vihan joined the likes of Lakshay Sheoran and Saurabh Chaudhary as the latest Indian teenage shooter on the podium at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. Uttar Pradesh teenager ... Read More »

Putting behind her heart-breaking loss at the Olympics two years ago, Vinesh began her victorious campaign with a revenge win against Chinese Yanan Sun against whom she had suffered that terrible leg injury which cut short her journey in Rio. Indian shooter Deepak Kumar claimed the silver medal in men’s ... Read More »

Indian shooters continued to shine at the Asian Games. Saurabh Chaudhary produced an Asian Games record score of 240.7 to clinch the gold medal in Men’s 10m Air Pistol final at the Asian Games 2018 on Tuesday. Abhishek Verma won the bronze with a score of 219.3 in the same ... Read More »

Deepak shot 247.7 to finish second on the podium behind China’s Haoran Yang, who won the top prize with a Games record 249.1 at the JSC Shooting Range of this port city. Chinese Taipei’s Shaochuan Lu (226.8) bagged the bronze after being beaten by a near-perfect score of 10.9 by ... Read More »

Bajrang Punia snatched the spotlight from fading superstar Sushil Kumar to open India’s gold account at the 18th Asian Games after the shooters delivered just a bronze in a low-key start to their campaign on Sunday. An in-form Bajrang won his maiden Asian Games gold in the 65kg category but a rusty Sushil lost ... Read More »

An in-form Bajrang won his maiden Asian Games gold in the 65kg category but a ‘rusty’ Sushil lost his last chance to add an Asiad gold to his collection of medals after losing his qualification bout 3-5 to Bahrain’s Adam Batirov in the 74kg category. Bajrang came into the Games after winning ... Read More »

India opened its account in the 18th Asian Games with Ravi Kumar and Apurvi Chandela winning the bronze medal in the 10 meter mixed air rifle event on Sunday. The duo of Kumar and Chandela finished third on the podium with a score of 429.9. Chinese Taipei claimed gold with ... Read More »

The Asian Games were declared open by Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo.   Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was India’s flag-bearer in the opening ceremony. The Indian sports ministry had cleared an 804-member Indian contingent, including 572 athletes, for the Asian Games. The sporting extravaganza will see around 10,000 athletes from 45 ... Read More »

A total of 572 Indian athletes will be participating in the event in 36 different sports categories. The contingent will be led by Chef de Mission Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The games in Jakarta will be held at the Bung Karno sports complex, which contains 20 venues and nine training ... Read More »