INDIAN student contingents have emerged with flying colours at prestigious international Olympiads in Biology, Maths, Physics andChemistry held thismonth, earningplaudits from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other bigwigs, officials said here on Wednesday. The participating teams went throughtheHomiBhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) here and bagged several medals and honours for the country, including seven won by Maharashtra students. It started with the 35th International Biology Olympiad held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

 

The Indian team bagged one gold (VedantSakre ofMumbai) and three silvers (Ishan Pednekar ofRatnagiri;ShrijithSivakumar of Chennai and Yashaswi Kumar of Bareilly). This was followed by the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad held in Bath, UK. The Indian contingents bagged four golds (Adhitya M VGaneshofPune;KanavTalwar of Greater NOIDA; Rushil Mathur of Mumbai and Anando Bhadur of Guwahati), while Arjun Gupta of Delhi got a silver medal and Siddharth Choppara of Pune secured an Honourable Mention. Next was the 54th International Physics OlympiadheldinIsfahan,Iran.

 

The Indian team secured 2 golds (RhythmKedia ofRaipur andVed Lahoti ofIndore), plus 3 silvers (Akarshraj Sahay of Nagpur;BhavyaTiwariofNOIDA and Jaiveer Singh of Kota). Finally, the 56th International Chemistry Olympiad was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Indian contingent secureda gold (Devesh P Bhaiya of Jalgaon), 2 silvers (Avaneesh Bansal of Mumbai and Harshin Posina of Hyderabad) while Kashyap Khandelwal of Mumbai got a bronze medal.