India opened its Asian Games medal account expectedly in shooting with the trio of Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput clinching the Silver in the 10-m air rifle team event in the Chinese city of Guangzhou today.The three combined for a score of 1783, a point adrift of the Gold medal winning Chinese team comprising Jikang Yu, Qinan Zhu and Yifei Cao. Korea settled for the bronze in this event.However, the women's 10-m air rifle team finished seventh and the men's 50m pistol team could manage only a fifth place finish. AIR correspondent reports the second silver for India was won by Gagan Narang in the 10 meter air-rifle individual shooting. In the Women's team event in Badminton Saina Nehwal thrashed Adriyanti Firdasari of Indonesia 21-16 21-17 in the first Women's Singles match in just 30 minutes.India's women paddlers were also off to brilliant start in the team competition of the Asian Games as they whitewashed Laos 3-0 in their opening group B tie.Kumaresan Shamini provided India a sound start by thrashing Thiphakone Southamavong 11-5 11-7 11-4 in just 12 minutes. Madhurika S Patkar then made it 2-0 in India's favour with a 11-7 11-3 9-11 11-6 win over Sengdavieng Douangpanya in the rubber two. Mouma Das needed just 11 minutes to clinch the tie in India's favour as she drubbed Sengdavy Phiathep 11-5 11-6 11-2 in match three. India are now placed second in four-team group B behind Singapore, who beat Maldives with an identical 3-0 margin.