Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

Manika Batra, India's star paddler, was awarded the International Table Tennis Federation's (ITTF) Breakthrough Star Award 2018 during a ceremony at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. In the Commonwealth Games 2018 at Gold Coast, Manika won four medals including a historic women's singles gold, team gold, women's doubles silver (with Mouma Das) and mixed doubles bronze (with G.Sathiyan). She had also bagged the bronze in mixed doubles (with A. Sharath Kamal) at the 2018 Asian Games.