Despite India's success in Archery arena at Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, where the country has won 19 and eight medals, respectively, including three Asiad gold medals and two CWG golds, a medal at Olympics has eluded Team India so far in their journey.
After registering a direct berth in the quarterfinals of the men's team archery event in the Paris Olympics, which is set to begin on Friday, archer Dhiraj Bommadevara expressed his feelings, saying that the team has been preparing for this event for the last two years and that they are o
India's archery team, comprising Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai, and Pravin Jadhav, directly qualified for the quarter-finals of the event at the Paris Olympics 2024 by securing a third-place finish with 2013 points in the Men's Archery Ranking Round on Thursday.
For the first time since London Olympics 2012, India will be fielding their full team of six archers, putting up a challenge in all five medal events in men's team/individual, women's team/individual and mixed team categories, as per Olympics.com.
Former Olympian and the High Performance Director of the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) National Centre of Excellence Sanjeeva Singh said India's quest for an archery medal at the Summer Games should end at Paris 2024.
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar inaugurated the Mediclinic project at Grand Bois in Mauritius on Wednesday with Indian grant assistance, calling it the "newest expression of our friendship."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed India's consistent and continued support for Mauritius in its quest for progress, and expressed pride in being a partner of Mauritius in its journey towards modernity.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday called on Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jagnauth in Port Louis and appreciated further broadenning of the special and enduring partnership between both the nations.
He thanked Mauritius Foreign Minister Maneesh Gobin for warm welcome and stated that he looked forward to productive engagements to take forward the special relationship between the two nations.
This comes around a month after PM Jugnauth visited India for the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his new cabinet and Council of Ministers