Asian Games 2018  

'Prior to the Commonwealth Games, his father was serious but after he came back, he was more serious. His father was referred to Army Hospital in Delhi for chemotherapy. He was there for 10-15 days,' Dhillon said

'Hopefully, I won't take that long to finish college. I don't have a job also, so education is important for me. It also gives me social acceptance,' Rajat Chauhan said after winning silver at Asian Games

In five matches at the ongoing Games, India have scored a whopping 76 goals and conceded only three, against Korea. They are on top of Pool A with 15 points

In the final on Tuesday at the GBK Stadium, 28-year-old Manjit took gold in a time of 1:46.15. He was fourth behind Johnson in the last 90 metres but produced a great run to clinch gold. Johnson was second in a time of 1:46.35

India won the first set 25-21. But Pakistan came back strongly in the next three sets

Neeraj won gold in javelin throw at the Asian Games. Nadeem had to settle for bronze.

This is for the first time that the nation has managed a table tennis medal at the Asian Games. Since the sport was introduced in 1958, China, Japan and South Korea have dominated. China has claimed a whopping 61 gold medals

When Chopra won the gold at Carrara Stadium in Gold Coast, he became the third man to win gold for India in Commonwealth Games athletics after sprinter Milkha Singh in 1958 and discus thrower Vikas Gowda in 2014

In the shoot-off, Koreans had one inner 10 (closet to bull’s eye), a 10 and a 9. Indians managed two 10s and a 9. Korea triumphed as it was so near yet so far for India

PV Sindhu, who is world number three, is the first-ever Indian woman to bag a badminton individual silver medal at Asian Games.

Apart from Neeraj’s glittering golden effort, India had three silver from athletics. Sudha Singh (women’s 3000 steeplechase), Neena Varakil (women’s long jump) and Dharun Ayyasamy (men’s 400m hurdles) bagged silver

In long jump, 28-year-old Neena cleared a jump of 6.51m to win silver. Bui Thi Thu Thao of Vietnam claimed gold (6.55m) while Xiaoling Xu of China took bronze (6.50m)