<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">India today bagged four Silver and two bronze medals at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia. Two silver medals were bagged in Equestrian and two in Athletics. India got two bronze medals in Men's Team and Mixed team event in Bridge.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">Equestrian is a sport related to Horse riding. Fouaad Mirza finished second on the podium in the Eventing Individual, with the Indian team, comprising Fouaad, Jitender Singh, Ashish Malik and Rakesh Kumar, claiming Silver in the Team category of the event. In Athletics, Hima Das got silver in Women's 400 metre final. Muhammed Anas Yahiya bagged silver in men's 400 metre final.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">India now have 35 medals in its kitty - </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en-in">7 Gold, 9 Silver and 19 Bronze.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en"><br />''Meanwhile, Dutee Chand secured a place in the Women's 100-metres Final. Lakshmanan Govindan will be in action in the Men's 10,000 metres Final, with Sreeshankar competing for the Men's Long Jump Gold.<br />''            Anu Raghavan and Jauna Murmu have qualified to the Final of the Women's 400 metres Hurdles.<br />''            In Badminton, PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal have sailed into the semi-finals with superb victories. Both are now assured of medals. India had never won a Badminton singles medal at the Games.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">In Hockey, India beat South Korea 5-3 in their fourth Pool-A match to make it to the semis.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In Archery, India were assured of at least two more silver medals after its men and women progressed to the final of the compound team events. The Indian men are the defending champions and they lived up to their reputation by getting the better of Chinese Taipei 230-227 in the semi-finals.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">             Earlier in the day, Indian women bettered their last edition's performance by entering the summit clash of the compound team.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Indian women, who had returned with a bronze medal from Incheon four years ago, too, beat Chinese Taipei 225-222 in the semi-finals to progress to the gold medal match.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The two medals from the compound teams have come as a welcome relief for the Indian archery contingent after the recurve archers drew a blank from the Games.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">In Shooting, none of the Indians qualified to the Finals of Men's and Women's Skeet events.<br />''In Boxing, Manoj Kumar lost his pre-quarterfinal bout in the 69 kg category. Sarjubala Devi beats Madina Ghaforova of Tajikistan in Women's Fly (51kg) Round of 16 bout.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en">In Table Tennis, the Women's team has won its opening group match against Qatar, 3-0. The Men's team will begin its campaign against UAE.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Indian men's team lost narrowly to Chinese Taipei in a group 3 match of the Handball competition. India, who had earlier defeated Malaysia and Pakistan in group 3, lost 31-35 to Chinese Taipei. India will next face Indonesia in the last group match on Wednesday.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:en-in">India is currently 9th in the medals tally. China continues to maintain a substantial lead at the top, with Japan second, and South Korea third.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 21.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>