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PM Modi inaugurates Param Pragya, presents gold medals at IIT Delhi convocation

PM Modi inaugurates Param Pragya, presents gold medals at IIT Delhi convocation

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Participating in the 57th Convocation Ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, PM Modi conferred the Institute’s most prestigious honours, including the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, and Perfect Ten Gold Medals, to the meritorious students Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

How the lifter’s relationship with the Games evolved

How the lifter’s relationship with the Games evolved

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5 min readUpdated: Jul 26, 2026 08:54 PM IST When Mirabai Chanu walked into Glasgow’s SEC Arena as a 20-year-old in 2014, the Commonwealth Games felt enormous. They were her first major multi-sport Games, and perhaps her first chance to announce that India had another weightlifting star ready to emerge. Every lift carried consequence. Every kilogram mattered. Twelve years later, she leaves the same city and same venue with her fourth consecutive Commonwealth Games medal – and a golden hat-trick. With nobody to challenge her, Mirabai spiced things up by failing to lift in her first attempts in the snatch as well as clean and jerk sections. Once she got her bearings, she continued to rule the 48kg category in the Commonwealth like a monarch. Her yet another dominant run on Sunday, lifting a total of 190 kg (85 in snatch and 105 in clean and jerk) to win the gold medal, completed a remarkable streak unmatched in Indian weightlifting. It also underscored how Mirabai’s relationship with the event had fundamentally changed over her four …

Everything you need to know about India’s lawn bowls campaign

Everything you need to know about India’s lawn bowls campaign

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The Commonwealth Games 2026 are set to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 23 to August 2. Lawn bowls returns as one of the sports to watch after India scripted history at Birmingham 2022 by winning its first-ever Commonwealth Games medals in the sport. The 2026 edition will feature only 10 sports after the original host, the Australian state of Victoria, withdrew from hosting the Games in 2023 due to financial concerns. Glasgow later stepped in to host a smaller, more cost-effective edition of the Games, with lawn bowls among the sports retained for the competition. At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, India created history by winning its first-ever medals in lawn bowls. The women’s fours team clinched a historic gold medal, while the men’s fours team followed it up with a silver. What is lawn bowls? Lawn bowls is a precision sport played with biased bowls and a smaller target ball called the jack. The objective is to roll the bowls as close to the jack as possible. At the end of every …

A sweet box maker’s daughter won world gold with a second-hand bow

A sweet box maker’s daughter won world gold with a second-hand bow

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Anil Manohar Mohod makes cardboard boxes for sweet shops in Amravati. It is how the family gets by. Last Sunday, when his 17-year-old daughter Kumkum won the women’s team gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai — India’s first women’s team gold since 2021 — he picked up the phone and called Raghuvir Mithaiyan, one of his clients, to order sweet boxes. Not to deliver them. To receive them. “Sweet boxes banane se hi ghar charta hai aur Kumkum ki archery bhi (It is the sweet boxes that run our home, and so does Kumkum’s archery),” he told The Indian Express. “She was shooting in Shanghai with a second-hand bow, which she has been using for the last five years. And when she won the team gold, I called Raghuvir Mithaiyan sweets — for whom I once made boxes — to order sweets to celebrate. Kumkum’s passion has been archery and what more can we ask than to see her shining on the world stage.” The bow is five years old. It …

Palak and Mukesh win gold with a world record at the ISSF World Cup

Palak and Mukesh win gold with a world record at the ISSF World Cup

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5 min readChandigarhUpdated: Apr 7, 2026 11:40 PM IST India’s Palak Gulia and Mukesh Nelavalli broke the world record en route to winning a gold medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team competition at the ISSF World Cup for rifle and pistol in Granada on Tuesday. The win was impressive, as the field included the world champion Chinese pair of Kai Hu and Qianxun Yao, along with Paris Olympics bronze medallist Veronika Major and Akos Nagy of Hungary. With Nelavalli, making his senior debut, shooting a score of 294 as compared to Gulia’s score of 287, the Indian pair qualified in second spot behind the Chinese pair. An hour later, the Indian pair won the title, with a 2.9-point lead over the second-placed Chinese pair, setting a new world record and junior world record score of 487.7. As per the new mixed team final format, the top four teams will fight for medals, instead of just the top two as it was earlier. The new final format sees a mixed team firing five shots …

French Paralympian Bauchet’s golden end to a ‘tough’ day

French Paralympian Bauchet’s golden end to a ‘tough’ day

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Arthur Bauchet may already be a multiple Paralympic champion but after badly injuring his hand in a crash and then falling asleep in an MRI machine on Monday, little did he expect to find himself atop the podium the following day. However, that is just what happened to the French skier as he pulled off a remarkable comeback to seize the fourth gold medal and 10th overall of his Paralympic career at the men’s alpine combined standing event on Tuesday in Cortina. “I think it’s one of my favourite gold medals,” the 25-year-old told reporters after winning France’s first gold in alpine skiing at the Milan-Cortina Games. “Because it was hard to believe I could do it in the first place. “And on top of that, my family is here. It’s the first Paralympic gold medal I’ve won in front of them,” Bauchet, who has a neurological condition called spastic paraplegia, which causes severe spasms in his legs, added. The omens looked ill for Bauchet earlier in the day as he came in two seconds …

Norway wins its 17th gold medal, breaking record for most golds won in a single Winter Olympics | Sport-others News

Norway wins its 17th gold medal, breaking record for most golds won in a single Winter Olympics | Sport-others News

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Johannes Dale-Skjevdal of Norway was the only biathlete to hit all 20 of his targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race Friday and skied his way to gold — Norway’s 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — breaking the record for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics. Norway had set the record at the 2022 Beijing Olympics with 16 gold medals. “It’s quite a good ending to my first Olympics, and it is also my first time shooting 20 out of 20,” Dale-Skjevdal said. “What a day to do it on. It’s real, and I can’t find the words, but it’s just amazing, of course.” Dale-Skjevdal had taken the lead after the first standing bout with clean shooting and completed the five laps on newly packed snow and gusty winds in 39 minutes, 17.1 seconds. His teammate Sturla Holm Laegreid only missed one target and finished 10.5 seconds back for silver. It was his fifth medal of these Olympic Games: three silver and two bronze. …

Report: Clayton Keller among newcomers on T

Report: Clayton Keller among newcomers on T

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A trio of NHL players Utah Mammoth captain Clayton Keller, Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson and Florida Panthers defenseman Seth Jones will make their Olympic debuts with Team USA at February’s Winter Games, ESPN reported on Wednesday. Olympic rosters had to be submitted by Wednesday. USA Hockey plans to announce its roster Friday morning on NBC’s “Today.” This is the first time in 12 years that NHL players will compete in the Olympics. The tournament begins in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 11. The U.S. is scheduled to oppose Latvia on Feb. 12, Denmark on Feb. 14 and Germany on Feb. 15. The aforementioned trio joins six players previously named to the U.S. team forwards Jack Eichel of the Vegas Golden Knights, Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Brady Tkachuk of the Ottawa Senators and Matthew Tkachuk of the Panthers and defensemen Quinn Hughes of the Minnesota Wild and Charlie McAvoy of the Boston Bruins. Except for Hughes, who was injured at the time, those players were part of the 4 Nations Face-Off team that …

Sift Kaur Samra wins stunning gold medal at Shooting World Cup

Sift Kaur Samra wins stunning gold medal at Shooting World Cup

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It was a late Friday night to remember for Indian shooting as Sift Kaur Samra pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory in the women’s 50m Rifle 3-Positions (3P) final at the Tiro Federal Argentino de Buenos Aires shooting range. It was her first individual ISSF World Cup gold and also India’s first gold of the season-opener in Argentina. After 15-shots in the first Kneeling position, Sift was stage 7.2 points behind Anita Mangold of Germany and eventual silver medalist, but staged a dream comeback in the second Prone and final Standing positions to win by a canter in the end. She eventually finished with 458.6 at the end of the 45-shot final, while Mangold ended 3.3 behind on 455.3. Junior World Championship medalist Arina Altukhova of Kazakhstan was third, bowing out after the 44th shot with a tally of 445.9. Sensational Sift Sift qualified for the final in top spot with a strong 590, when the likes of reigning Olympic champion Chiara Leone and the previous Olympic champion Nina Christen, both from Switzerland, could not …

Lawn bowls triumph breaks Bihar’s gold medal drought

Lawn bowls triumph breaks Bihar’s gold medal drought

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Bihar won a gold medal at the National Games for the first time in 25 years, clinching the women’s triple lawn bowls gold in Uttarakhand on Saturday. The trio of Payal, Khushboo Kumari, and Nikhath Khatoon combined to help Bihar edge past the team from West Bengal by a slender 15-14 margin in the gold medal match. Earlier in the day, they had defeated Delhi 19-18 in the semi-finals to make their way into the gold medal match. ‘Single goal’ “We played as one unit with a single goal and that propelled us to the gold medal,” said Payal in a conversation with The Bridge. While Payal works as a HR in a private sector bank, Khatoon is a post graduate student and Kumari – a graduate – who dedicates all her time to the sport. The trio trains at Gulzarbagh Stadium in state capital Patna. They don’t have a bowling green in the state but practice using mats and carpets to level up in the sport. “We don’t have a ground to practice (bowling …