Indian shooter Anjum Moudgil praised the recently passed National Sports Governance and the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill in the Parliament last week.
The championships will be held from August 16th to 30th at Shymkent in Kazakhstan, with India sending the largest contingent, consisting of 182 shooters across pistol, rifle and shotgun in both Olympic and Non-Olympic events.
In the latest episode of the House of Glory podcast, an initiative by the Gagan Narang Sports Foundation, Junior French Shooting Team manager Eric Egretaud spoke about his visit to India and his experience observing Indian shooters from across the country.
Varun Tomar, a prominent Indian shooter who won a gold medal at the 2022 ISSF World Cup in Cairo, is poised to be one of the flagship players in the tournament and has expressed his excitement for the inaugural edition of the Shooting League of India (SLI).
Indian shooters concluded their ISSF Shooting World Cup 2025 campaign with four medals as Arjun Babuta and Arya Borse secured a gold in the 10 m air rifle event on Saturday.
Indian shooter Adriyan Karmakar continued his sublime form at the ISSF Junior World Cup 2025 and bagged a bronze medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event on Friday.
The young Indian shooter was constantly hunted down by the great and in-form Hungarian rifle shooter Istvan Peni, fresh from a men's 3P gold a couple of days back, but pulled out the big shots when it mattered in a sharp performance
A total of 35 Indian shooters will compete in all 15 medal events on schedule including 12 individual and three mixed team events. Double Paris Olympics medalist Manu Bhaker is the only athlete to have made the cut in two individual events. The remaining members of the squad depart on March
Manu Bhaker has been open about how life has changed since her remarkable double-bronze achievement at the Paris Olympics. She longed for a third medal, she understands the value of staying realistic.
"I know how difficult it is to finish fourth," Manu told Boria Majumdar at Trailblazers
Indian shooters earned 22 quotas for the 2024 Olympics, and a 21-member strong contingent participated in the multi-sporting event with seven shooters making it to the final, and three (including Swapnil Kusale and Sarabjot Singh) winning a medal with Manu Bhaker winning a historic double.
Former Indian shooter and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) vice-president Gagan Narang has expressed his disappointment at shooting and some other disciplines, where India has high medal hopes, not being part of the Commonwealth Games 2026 itinerary and said it amounts to "watering down"