Olympian Deepika Kumari and and Asian Games champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam will spearhead India's 16-member squad for the upcoming Asian Archery Championships 2025 which will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 8 to 14.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met actor Ram Charan, his wife Upasana Konidela, and his father-in-law, Archery Premier League (APL) co-founder Anil Kamineni, on the sidelines of the ongoing Archery Premier League tournament.
Deepika, representing the Chola Chiefs, which finished fourth in the competition with four wins and six losses, said that she is glad that the nation is hosting some of the world's best archers.
World No.1 men's recurve archer Brady Ellison of the USA was in top form for the Chola Chiefs, even as Indian ace Deepika Kumari remained hot and cold in the opening match on day two of the Archery Premier League (APL) at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi on Friday, which saw the Chola Chie
The evening on Thursday began on a glamorous note, with global superstar Ram Charan, a renowned figure in the cinema world, gracing the opening ceremony as the brand ambassador of APL. Also present on the occasion was another film star, Randeep Hooda, who co-owns the Prithiviraaj Yodhas.
Recurve archer Deepika, who will possibly mark her fifth and last Olympic appearance in 2028, said the APL is the kind of competition she needs to fine-tune her game for the "ultimate target".
Indian archers have won 15 medals in the competition - three gold, nine silver and three bronze. All three gold medals and one bronze were won at the last edition in 2023, hosted in Berlin, where India finished first, according to Olympics.com.
The Upper House of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, on Tuesday passed the National Sports Governance Bill and the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, after it was passed in the Lower House, the Lok Sabha, on Monday.
India's 16-member squad endured a shambolic campaign at the Archery World Cup 2025 Stage 3 after falling short in securing medals across recurve and compound events in Antalya.
India wrapped up their campaign at the Archery World Cup 2025 in Shanghai with a total of seven medals, including bronze medals for Olympian Deepika Kumari and Parth Salunkhe in the individual recurve events, as per Olympics.com.
Starting off with the women's recurve individual event, it was star archer Deepika Kumari beat Gatha Anandrao Khadake in tie-breakers to make her way to the final on Tuesday. Anshika Kumari will join her in the final after pulling off an upset to beat Komalika Bari, as per a press release fr
The 30-year-old archer who also competed in the Paris Olympics, was defeated by China's Li Jiaman 0-6 in the final, as per OIympics.com. Jiaman was also part of the archery team that secured the silver medal at Paris 2024.