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Seven-member Indian contingent to compete in inaugural ISSF President's Cup
•The top 12 athletes in individual rifle and pistol events according to the 2021 world ranking post the Games, have been invited to participate in the event where individual winners will be awarded the Golden Target, the Best Athlete of the Year title.
.315 bore casings found at Lakhimpur Kheri site: All you need to know about this cartridge
Fp Staff •The all-India availability of the .315 cartridge and its relative inexpensiveness – a little over Rs 100 each - means it is the go-to round for illegal weapons, mainly country-made guns
Raninder Singh re-elected as president of NRAI for fourth term
•The NRAI decided to go ahead with the polls despite the impediments it faced after the petition filed by challenger Shyam Singh Yadav in the Delhi High Court, followed by the sports ministry's directive to initiate elections afresh.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: NRAI to assess performance of its executives in three-part review after shooting flop show
•The three-part review is already underway, an insider in the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) told PTI on the condition of anonymity.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Efforts still on for pistol coach Pavel Smirnov as Indian shooters leave Zagreb for Games
•The Olympic-bound team left Zagreb after completing an 80-long competition-cum-training stint in the Balkan nation.
Commonwealth Games 2022 archery, shooting championships called off over COVID-19 concerns
•The decision was taken by the Commonwealth Games India Executive Board with the support of the Commonwealth Games Federation
NRAI recommend Anjum Moudgil, Ankur Mittal for Khel Ratna
•Mittal won his double trap world title in 2018 and got the Arjuna award the same year. Moudgil is a world championship silver-medallist, also from the 2018 edition and she was awarded the Arjuna in 2019.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Strict gun laws of Japan could trigger problems for shooters during Games
•Some of the world's toughest gun-control laws are posing unusual problems at the Tokyo Olympics, from the coach who can't touch a firearm to strict limits on ammunition.
Shooter Manu Bhaker receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in build-up to Tokyo Olympics 2020
•The 19-year-old pistol ace was administered the Covishield vaccine at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Dhakla village.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: NRAI requests government to vaccinate Olympic-bound shooters at the earliest
•The NRAI stepped up its call for vaccination after three of its Olympic-bound shooters contracted the highly contagious virus recently, forcing the federation to cancel the national camp for the rifle team that was to start in the national capital from Tuesday.