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India has a total land area of 3,166 lakh hectares, out of which 15% is categorized as wasteland. As per the report of the Wastelands Atlas of India (2011), Rajasthan tops the chart with about 84,929 sq.km as wasted land. These wastelands are mainly transformed into dumping grounds, as in India, nearly 91% of the collected waste is dumped...
India finish at the top for the first time in an ISSF conducted world shooting event
“Indian shooting in safe hands,” declared Abhinav Bindra, the only Olympic gold medallist for India, after India’s young shooters performed stupendously in the year-opening ISSF World Cup. India topped the medals tally for the very first time in an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) competition, after finishing the World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage held in Mexico with four gold, one silver...
Akhil Sheoran wins the 4th gold for India in ISSF Shooting World Cup
India continue to shine brightly in Mexico as young shooter Akhil Sheoran clinched the 4th gold in the year-opening ISSF World Cup. Akhil's triumph came in Men's 50m Rifle 3 position when he shot 455.6 in the final to leave behind Austria’s Bernhard Pickl in second place with 452. Akhil won in such an event that included 38-time ISSF...
Tribal boy Gora Ho stars in India’s gold win in Men’s Team Recurve at Asia Cup Archery
Gora Ho, a teenager from the tribal belt of Jharkhand, won gold partnering Akash and Gaurav Lambe in the team recurve event at the Asia Cup. The trio beat Mongolia’s Adiyasuren Baasankhuu, Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag and Gantugs Jantsan 27-26 in the tie-breaker to clinch the third gold for India. Earlier Muskan Kirar and Promila Daimary won gold in Women's Compound...
Is Mithali Raj or Jhulan Goswami worser than some lowest paid male cricketers?
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced their annual contract by introducing a new ‘A+’ category in men’s cricket and a ‘C’ category in women’s cricket. Five male players who are included in the A+ category are Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Bhubaneshwar Kumar and Jashprit Bumrah. BCCI has ensured the annual contracts worth...
Muskan Kirar and Promila Daimary win gold in Archery Asia Cup
17-year old Muskan Kirar won the gold medal in the Women’s Compound event at the Archery Asia Cup stage 1 competition in Bangkok. She was joined by Promila Daimary who won gold in Women's Recurve. Along with them, Madhu Vedwan and Gaurav Trambak Lambe won bronze medals in the Women’s and Men’s Recurve events respectively. Mushkan Kirar, who hails from Madhya Pradesh,...
Its another gold for Manu Bhaker; creates another record
Sensational Manu Bhaker wins her second gold medal in 10m Air Pistol at the ISSF Shooting World Cup held in Guadalajara in Mexico. Partnering with Om Prakash Mitharval, she won the team event by scoring 476.1 points against the German pair of Christian Reitz and Sandra Reitz. "Personally everything is the same for me. But yes, shooters from other countries...
Manu Bhaker strikes at 16; becomes youngest Indian shooter to win a World Cup gold
The Women’s 10m Air Pistol gold in this year’s ISSF World Cup belongs to 16-year old Manu Bhaker, the youngest shooter from India to win it and perhaps the third youngest in the world to achieve this feat. Rifle shooter Gagang Narang and pistol shooter Rahi Sarnobat were India’s previous youngest World Cup medallist at 23 in 2006 and...
The shooter-turned-coach, Yoginder Pal Singh, reliving his dream through ‘Shoot To Win’
Yoginder Pal Singh and his Shoot To Win-it is a skillful combination. A combination that has been established by the sportsperson to give back to the sport that he loves so much. Yoginder had been passionate about sports from his early childhood and he used to play any and every type of sport at school. Incidentally, he came across shooting...
3:59.4 – that was all for Sir Roger Bannister to remain on athletics tracks forever
64 years on, 3:59.4 is a number recognisable to every athletics folower. And the man who created it had assured a name in the history book. Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88 in his hometown in Oxford. “Sir Roger Bannister, died peacefully in Oxford on 3rd March...