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India storm into Badminton Asia Junior Team Championships quarter-finals

India storm into Badminton Asia Junior Team Championships quarter-finals

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India booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Badminton Asia Junior Mixed Team Championships with a commanding 2-0 victory over Kazakhstan in their Group C opener in Yatsushiro, Japan, on Saturday. The Indian team outclassed Kazakhstan 55-31, 55-21 to seal qualification for the knockout stage ahead of a crucial group-stage clash against Chinese Taipei, which will determine the Group C winners. India made a strong start in the doubles, with Durga Esha Kandrapu and Keerthy Manchala giving the team early momentum. The pair defeated Alissa Kuleshova and Diana Namenova 11-5 to put India in control. Puneeth Suresh and Deepti Raj Aditi were tested in the second doubles match by Mustafa Malikzhan and Alissa Kuleshova but edged a closely fought contest 11-10 to extend India’s advantage. After the hard-fought second doubles match, India asserted complete control by dominating the remaining three disciplines to comfortably wrap up the opening set 55-31. The second set proved to be even more one-sided as the Indian shuttlers maintained their intensity throughout. None of the Indian players conceded more than …

India top ISSF Junior World Championship medal tally with 24 medals

India top ISSF Junior World Championship medal tally with 24 medals

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India emerged as the most successful nation at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2026 in Suhl, Germany, finishing on top of the medal standings with an impressive haul of 24 medals. The Indian contingent ended its campaign with seven gold, eight silver and nine bronze medals, underlining the country’s growing depth in junior shooting across rifle and pistol disciplines. India’s campaign began on a high with Sejal Kamble winning gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event, while Himanshi claimed bronze. Sejal then teamed up with Vanshika Choudhary and Navya Bishnoi to secure another gold in the women’s team competition. The gold medals continued to flow as Sameer triumphed in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol, Rohit Kanyan won the men’s 50m rifle three positions title, Pritam Kendre topped the podium in the men’s 10m air rifle, Abhinav Deshwal claimed the men’s 25m standard pistol crown, and Shambhavi Shravan Kshirsagar and Abhinav Shaw struck gold in the mixed 10m air rifle event. India’s success was spread across individual, team and mixed team competitions, highlighting the …

Neeraj Chopra-fan Pritam Kendre becomes junior air rifle world champion

Neeraj Chopra-fan Pritam Kendre becomes junior air rifle world champion

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4 min readJun 21, 2026 11:07 PM IST Back in 2021, when Pritam Kendre along with his father Tukaram Kendre watched Neeraj Chopra win the Olympic gold in Tokyo Olympics on TV, Pritam would sit down with his father with a notebook making a list of Olympic sports. The father-son duo would narrow down their choice to shooting. On Sunday, when the 16-year-old won the men’s 10m air rifle title in ISSF World Junior Championships in Suhl, Germany, Kendre Sr was looking at the same list. “When Neeraj Chopra won the Olympic title, Pritam was motivated to take up sports and sat down with me to make the list of sports and chose shooting. Prior to that, apart from studies, he loved watching cartoons like Shin Chan, Doraemon and Chota Bheem. As he won the world junior title today, I am sure Pritam would once again watch Neeraj’s video of winning the Olympic title and dream about winning an Olympic gold some day,” shares Tukaram Kendre while speaking with The Indian Express. Kendre Sr, then …

India men’s junior team win bronze at Asian Gymnastics C’ships

India men’s junior team win bronze at Asian Gymnastics C’ships

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The Indian men’s junior artistic gymnastics team clinched a historic bronze medal at the 2026 Asian Gymnastics Championships in Zunyi, China. It marked India’s best-ever performance in the artistic team event in the competition. Harschit Damodaran, Nishad Narvane, SK Nabigh Ali, Akshat Bajaj, and Mohd Zaid Ansari accumulated a total of 224.493 to win the bronze medal behind China (241.458) and Japan (239.461). Damodaran emerged as India’s best performing gymnast in the competition, qualifying for the individual vault and floor exercise finals. Bajaj also made it to the individual vault final. 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

Sameer Gulia becomes junior world champion, dedicates title to Jaspal Rana

Sameer Gulia becomes junior world champion, dedicates title to Jaspal Rana

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3 min readJun 20, 2026 12:13 AM IST Upon becoming the world junior champion in men’s 25m rapid fire pistol on Friday, Sameer Gulia’s first thoughts were about his gun’s grip. A couple of years ago, Jaspal Rana had advised the Haryana shooter to get his grip changed from Germany. Last week, Rana breathed his last and the 19-year-old chose to dedicate his maiden world title to the legendary coach. “Jaspal Rana sir was the guiding force for all juniors in the Indian team in recent years and earlier too. Every time I shot with this gun, his motivating words, ‘Aur mehnat kar Sameer beta aur dhyan na bhatkana’ (Work harder and don’t let your focus waver) would ring in my ears,” Gulia tells The Indian Express after triumphing at the ISSF World Junior Championships in Suhl, Germany. An only child, Gulia grew up in Purkhas village near Sonepat, eyeing his mother Anita Devi’s medals at home. Devi, who became the 25m pistol national champion in 2013, quit shooting to concentrate on making her son …

Parth smashes junior World Record in 10m air rifle

Parth smashes junior World Record in 10m air rifle

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Teenager Parth Rakesh Mane, finished seventh in the 10m air rifle men’s final at the hallowed Olympic Shooting range in Munich, as India took many positives on Day 1. The youngster from Maharashtra had earlier shattered the junior national record with an effort of 633.6 in qualification, which gave him third spot in the classy 149-strong field. Korea and China shared the two gold medals on the day. Parth’s qualification score was bettered only by the eventual gold medallist and former 50m rifle three positions (3P) Olympic champion Zhang Changhong (636.3) of China and Paris silver medallist Victor Lindgren (633.9) of Sweden. Mane began the final with a solid 10.8 and even finished the first five-shot series with the same score, finding himself in fourth at that stage with just 0.7 separating the leader Chang from fifth placed Peter Gorsa, the Croatian legend. Korean Shin Minki then shot a perfect 10.9 to begin the second five-shot series and Mane found himself sliding down to eighth after a high-scoring second series. Going into his 12th shot …

Biometric attendance system likely to begin in junior colleges: State | Mumbai News

Biometric attendance system likely to begin in junior colleges: State | Mumbai News

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2 min readMumbaiMay 25, 2026 10:06 PM IST The state government is considering introducing a centralized biometric attendance system in junior colleges across the state to tighten monitoring of student attendance and curb manipulation of records. The Directorate of School Education (Secondary and Higher Secondary) has submitted a proposal to the government seeking approval for installation of biometric systems in more than 9,000 junior colleges. Officials estimate the project could cost over ₹100 crore. The move comes amid increased scrutiny of integrated coaching institutes following the NEET paper leak controversy and allegations involving a coaching institute in Latur. The controversy renewed demands for stricter regulation of tie-ups between coaching centres and junior colleges. Under the integrated coaching model, private coaching institutes partner with junior colleges, allowing students to focus primarily on entrance exam preparation for tests such as NEET and JEE while attendance records are managed through the colleges. Critics allege the system enables manipulation of attendance records and weakens classroom teaching in colleges. Officials said the proposed biometric mechanism could help prevent tampering of …

How Indian teen Shriyanshi Valishetty scalped Chinese Junior World champion

How Indian teen Shriyanshi Valishetty scalped Chinese Junior World champion

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Shriyanshi Valishetty is part of the great Indian Jostle to take over from PV Sindhu in women’s singles. Of the 9 Indians ranked in Top 51, she is the 8th at World No 49. But this last week, while most of the chasing pack was at the Super 500 Malaysia event, Valishetty was at a Super 300 at Baoji, China, a smaller grade event comparably, but boasting China’s upcoming threats – notably World Junior and Youth Olympic champion Xu Wen Jing. The Chinese stepping onto the seniors circuit is 18, while Valishetty, 19 with many Indians taking the step up early to ease transition into the open events. Significantly, Valishetty defeated the Chinese shuttler touted to be their next big thing, 21-13, 21-17 in the semifinals. A reality check was swift, as she lost to fellow 19-year-old Yuan An Qi in the final, 21-14, 21-6 as her endurance let her down and she was drained by the time she reached the final. But it was a big learning on playing in hostile arenas with partisan …

Why Hockey India moved on from Sreejesh as junior coach, and why both sides have a point

Why Hockey India moved on from Sreejesh as junior coach, and why both sides have a point

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PR Sreejesh’s desire to become a coach came from the right place. A modern-day great, the former goalkeeper had learnt the sport a certain way, only to realise midway through his career that much of what he had been taught was completely out of sync with global trends. For instance, he was told to keep his palms open, chest high and constantly move inside the goal. Modern goalkeeping, he discovered during tours of Europe, was almost the opposite: Stay still, ration movement, react late. “We never had former goalkeepers who learnt modern techniques and imparted them to us. They learnt 1+1 is 4 and taught us that. But no, 1+1 is 2,” he had once said. After the 2012 London Olympics, Sreejesh did two things — first, he relearnt goalkeeping from scratch; then, he resolved that the next generation of Indian goalkeepers would not face the same hurdles he did. In his head, there was never any doubt that coaching would be his Plan A after retirement. Last week, that plan received a jolt. Sreejesh …

Frederic Soyez to lead India junior men’s hockey team

Frederic Soyez to lead India junior men’s hockey team

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Hockey India on Thursday announced the appointment of decorated Frenchman Frederic Soyez as the Coach of the Indian Junior Men’s Hockey Team, reinforcing its long-term vision of building a sustainable high-performance ecosystem aligned with India’s ambitions for the 2036 Olympic Games. One of the most accomplished coaches in European hockey, Soyez brings over three decades of elite hockey experience, including 15 years as an international player for France and over 15 years as a Head Coach at the highest level of world hockey. Soyez, who enjoyed an illustrious playing career with France from 1995 to 2010, earning 196 international caps and scoring an impressive 195 goals for the team, coached the national men’s hockey teams of both France and Spain. He boasts experience at three Olympic Games, having guided Spain at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics before leading France at the Paris 2024 Olympics. During his tenure with Spain, he guided the team to a Silver Medal at the 2019 European Championships, while also steering them to quarterfinal finishes at the Rio and …