India's greatest Paralympian, who won the gold in the 2004 and 2016 Games -- both with world record-breaking throws, said he has worked on increasing the power in his shoulder.
Two-time Paralympian Saroha will be representing the country in the F51 category in discus throw and club throw.
Tokyo on Wednesday confirmed 673 new cases, the 12th straight day of a week-on-week increase.
Humpy is already a recipient of the Arjuna award and Padma Shri.
Sherif, who is based out of Kasargod (Kerala), is India's most successful co-driver and has won the national title a whopping seven times with Gaurav Gill.
The Tokyo Paralympics slated to begin on August 24, will be Jhajharia's third Paralympics. He had won a gold at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games, setting a new world record of 62.15 metres.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) also nominated HS Prannoy, Pranav Jerry Chopra and Sameer Verma for the Arjuna Awards.
The woman spectator had held out a banner to relay a message to her grandparents during the first round of Tour de France that unfortunately led to a huge crash and pileup after she collided with a rider.
Despite not breaching the stiff qualifying mark of 64.00m, Annu Rani's strong ranking of World No. 11 has helped her bag quota spot as just 15 throwers could earn the direct qualification.
Australia and The Netherlands are at the top of the men's and women's rankings respectively.
On Wednesday, Tokyo reported 714 new cases — the highest in five weeks and the 11th straight day in Tokyo that cases are higher than they were seven days previously.
The 24-year-old Jyothi had won an individual World Championship bronze medal, and also has two Asian medals.
Nataraj wasn’t able to enter a swimming pool form mid-March till September, when a two-month national camp was arranged in Dubai last year.
Chopra has already been conferred with the Arjuna Award in 2018 after winning a gold in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
The national body also recommended Udayan Mane, Rashid Khan and Diksha Dagar for the Arjuna award.
Batra said negotiations are still on to ease restrictions on training during quarantine.
Punia raised concerns about improvement in Kaur's performance in a short period and seeking a hyperandrogenism test on her.
Mittal won his double trap world title in 2018 and got the Arjuna award the same year, while Moudgil is a world championship silver-medallist and was awarded the Arjuna in 2019.
The World No. 32 is a multiple-time gold medallist at the CWG but his bigger achievement is being part of the bronze-winning team at the 2018 Asian Games.
Nataraj's feat came on Sunday and was also a new national record besides being enough to achieve the 'A' mark for the Tokyo Games set at 53.85 seconds.
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