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Badminton Saina Nehwal will continue her quest for a maiden title of the season to boost her confidence ahead of Rio Olympics when she begins her campaign at the USD 900,000 Indonesia Open.

Shooting Continuing their impressive run in international competitions, India''s junior shooting squad, including Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore''s son Manavaditya, returned with an impressive haul of four gold, six silver and 10 bronze medals from two top international competitions held in Europe. India''s Kirti Gupta won the individual gold as well as team gold medal in trap event at the 8th International Junior Shotgun Cup shooting 2016 at Orimattila, Finland.

Tennis Top seeds Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis were tested by Russian girls Daria Kasatkina and Alexandra Panova before getting through to 2nd round of women doubles event in French Open

Chess Steadily climbing the rating charts, GrandB Adhiban will spearhead the Indian challenge in the Asian Continental Chess Championship, where five places are up for grabs for the World Chess Cup

Squash India''s leading squash players Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal won their opening round matches to reach the quarterfinals of the PSA HKFC International at Hong Kong

Snooker India earned a shot at Pakistan in the semifinals of the Asian Snooker Championship taking place in Abu Dhabi

Basketball All India Basketball tournament for Nachimuthu Gounder Cup for men is back after a gap of eight years.

Isnt this unethical?

Snooker Spearheaded by recently crowned continental 6-red champion Pankaj Advani, India defeated Sri Lanka and Qatar 3-0 to enter the knockout stage of the Asian Team Snooker Championship being held in Abu Dhabi. India today entered the knockout stage of the Asian Team Snooker Championship with a second-place finish in Group B after going down to Thailand in their last group league match in Abu Dhabi.

Golf Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri will play his eighth successive Major next month after confirming his place for the US Open from June 16 to 19

Boxing Previous edition''s silver-medallist and second seed Sarjubala Devi (48kg) advanced to the quarterfinals along with Seema Poonia (+81kg) as India rounded off a reasonably good day at the AIBA Women''s World Boxing Championships

India''s javelin sensation Neeraj Chopra produced his best form since the SAF Games to clinch the silver medal but still missed the Olympics qualification mark at the Zygmunta Selesta Memorial in Warsaw, Poland

Hockey Defender Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam will lead a 17-member Indian women''s hockey team in a four-nation tournament in Darwin, Australia starting May 30

It is feared that Narsingh may be attacked by goons.

Feeling sad for Mary Kom

Golf Feroz Singh Garewal shot three-under 69 and made the cut at the halfway stage of the Ambassador ADT Golf in Taipei Anirban Lahiri endured a testing day at the USD 7.3 million AT & T Bryon Nelson golf tournament as he was one-over through 16 holes when darkness stopped play at Irving , Texas Playing in extremely cold conditions in the morning, SSP Chawrasia managed to do well to card one-over 73 with two birdies in last three holes of the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Kildare, Ireland.

Uber Cup Semfinals Saina Nehwal lost the 3rd set 17-21 . At one point she was leading 13-11 India lost the 1st match 1-2. The good news is that it seems Saina Nehwal is back in form before Rio. She is peaking at the right time.

Uber Cup Semifinals Saina Nehwal won 2nd set 21 - 12 against Li Xuerui of China . At one point Saina was trailing 2- 6. Nice come back and a boost of confidence.

Uber Cup Semifinals Saina Nehwal lost 1st set 15-21 against Li Xuerui

A very beautiful article on how much Leander Paes is trying to qualify for Rio and make India proud. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/leander-paes-eyes-record-seventh-olympic-appearance/1/672332.html

Sad day for Dutee yesterday . According to her, she had nicely warmed up in the 4 X 100 m relay event. and she was feeling confident to attain the Rio qualifying mark in the individual 100 m event. As she was moving up the blocks , some other athlete from US replaced her for some unknown reason. Entire story in the following link http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/dutee-chand-olympic-dream-stutters-at-starting-block-2807760/

Golf Anirban Lahiri will resume his journey on the PGA Tour when he tees off at the USD 7.3 million AT&T Byron Nelson this week amid a very strong field including World No. 2 Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Zach Johnson and defending champion Steven Bowditch.

Snooker Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta continued their winning streak to be on course to qualify for the knock-out stage of the Asian Six Red & Team Championship 2016, being played in Abu Dhabi.

Wrestling The disciplinary committee of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has recommended pardon for all the wrestlers, who forfeited their bouts during the recent Olympic qualifying events, citing that they are all first-time offenders.

Our expectations have reached so high that we are overlooking a gold medal in sprint by India in an international event. Good for India. Congrats Dutee for her gold medal performance today .