Paris 2024 will mark the first time that India will have representation in the team events at the Olympics. Both the men's and women's team events were introduced in the Olympic programme at Beijing 2008
Each country can secure a maximum of one quota per weight category for the Olympics. India, which secured four quotas at Asian Games last year in Hangzhou, can grab as much as nine more in Italy.
The Indian men's and women's teams secured their spots in the round of 16 stage of the ongoing World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea on Wednesday, with both sides just a victory away from Paris Olympics 2024 quota.
During the course of men's and women's events, up to eight Paris Olympics quotas each are at stake, given to the teams who will reach the quarterfinals and have not secured any team quotas before.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that UGC's new draft was a conspiracy to end the reservation benefit extended to the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC), adding that the Congress "will never let this happen."
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that they will demand the ruling Congress government to implement a hike in quotas for the Scheduled Tribes.
A total of 16 Paris 2024 Olympic Games quotas will be available in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the Asian Olympic Qualification Rifle and Pistol event is scheduled between January 5-18, 2024, while as many as eight Paris spots will be up for grabs in the Asia Olympic Qualification Shotgun, sche
Ganemat Sekhon and Anantjeet Singh Naruka, arguably India's number one women's and men's skeet shooters on Wednesday, added another feather to their cap, winning a maiden individual senior national title at New Delhi's Dr Karni Singh Shooting range