India today hit gold on the second day of the Commonwealth Games withshooters hitting the bull's eye. While Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narangwon a gold in the 10 metre air rifle pairs event with a new meetrecord, shooters Anisha Sayyed and Rahi Sarnobat have also won a goldin the 25 metre pistol pairs women event. Sarnobat and Sayyed shot animpressive 1158 to finish ahead of Australia's Lalita Yauhleuskaya andLinda Ryan (1148) and England's Gorgs Geikie and Julia Lydall (1122)in the event. Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh brought silver in the 50metre pistol pairs event.Ace marksman Abhinav Bindra, who shot down India's first gold in the19th Commonwealth Games, said he was relieved that he gave the countrythe glory for the second time in two years after his Olympic triumph.Bindra and Gangan Narang fired a Games record of 1193 points in men's10m air rifle pairs event to give the countryits first gold medal in the Commonwealth Games today. Bindra praisedhis partner Narang for the victory and expressed happiness that theywere able to comer over the pressure and emerge victorious Our correspondent reports that shooting is a discipline where Indiais expected to collect the maximum number of medals. Besides Bindraand Narang who have also qualified for the Olympics, India's brightprospects Tejaswini Sawant , is also expected to bring laurels for thecountry.In boxing, India's Amandeep won his preliminary bout 6-2 against WaruiPeter of Kenya. In Tennis, Somdev won against Devin Mullings ofBahamas.On the second day of the competition, all together 54 medals including18 golds are to be decided.Vijendra Singh and Dinesh Kumar are hot favourites while the Men'shockey team will take on Malayasia in their opening match. Cycling andWrestling will also account for three golds each today while two goldsare on offer in the weightlifting category. Yesterday, Indianweightlifters bagged two silver and two bronze medals.With India winning 2 golds, three silver and two bronze today, theposition of the hosts has bounced to second position in theCommonwealth Games medal Tally. Australia is in first position withseven medals, including 4 Golds and 3 Silvers. Canada is in thirdposition with 4 medals including one gold, and 3 bronze.Commonwealth Games Organising committee chairman Mr Suresh Kalmaditoday announced that school children and the poor would be given freeentry to watch the games. Addressing a joint press conference alongwith President of the Games Federation, Mr Mike Fennel, Mr Kalmadisaid there is great enthusiasm among the people to witness the events. Denying charges that the price of tickets are high, Mr Kalmadisaid, 6 lakh tickets have already been sold for different sports. Ourcorrespondent reports big crowds including foreigners were seen liningup in front of central bank of India to purchase tickets for watchingthe sports. To meet the demand for tickets, the organizers havedecided to set up stalls outside the venues, where the general publiccan buy them. Mike Fennel said, messages from different parts of theworld continue to pour about the excellent quality of broadcast andtelecast of the games.Weightlifters Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani who won a silver and abronze respectively in the women's 48 kg class in the CWG todaydedicated their medals to criss-ridden Manipur. They expressed hopethat peace would soon return to the insurgency hit state.Crista Cullen smashed a hat-trick as England posted a 4-1 win overWales in a Pool B women's hockey match of the Commonwealth Gamestoday. The 25-year-old defender put England ahead in the 10th minutebefore scoring her second goal in the 20th to help her side go intothe half-time with a 2-0 lead at the sun-baked Major Dhyan ChandStadium. Wales managed a consolation goal just one minute before the finalhooter through Sarah Thomas, who played an integral part in Britain'sOlympic campaign in Beijing in 2008. Wales will have their task cutout after suffering their second loss in as many days. They lost 5-1to New Zealand in their opening match yesterday.With that we end the commonwealth games special bulletin.