In Archery, India's Olympic prospect Deepika Kumari won her first World Cup individual recurve gold medal at Antalya in Turkey today. She beat Korea's Lee Sung Jin by six set points to four in the final of the Stage 2 of the championship. Teenager Deepika won the second set 29-27, third 27-26 and the fifth 28-27 while losing the first 27-30 and the fourth 27-29.Deepika, who has already qualified for London Olympics, is the current junior world champion and a gold medallist at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. She had also won the Cadet World Title in 2009.Archery Association of India chief and Indian Olympic Association acting president Vijay Kumar Malhotra congratulated Deepika on her win today.A Parliamentary panel has made a strong pitch for grant of financial autonomy to Airports Authority of India, AAI allowing it to raise funds through tax-free bonds. Headed by CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its latest report, noted that the much-emphasised financial autonomy to AAI to plan and execute its projects has not materialised so far. The AAI, a mini-ratna, has long been awaiting the Finance Ministry's approval to its proposal to raise 3,000 crore rupeesthrough tax-free infrastructure bonds to fund various airport development and modernisation projects.The Committee's 174th report, tabled in the Parliament last week, also asked the government to lend a helping hand to AAI in recovering its outstanding dues from various agencies for the services rendered to them so that its cash flow was maintained at the desired level.Besides undertaking the modernisation of Chennai and Kolkata airports, the AAI is also working on upgrading 35 non-metro airports. The Committee expressed hope that AAI would ensure that it utilised the allocated funds to the maximum extent during the current fiscal.