PV Sindhu Mobbed On Homecoming, Victory Ride On Open-Top Bus.

A beaming Olympic champion PV Sindhu arrived this morning at the Hyderabad airport, where hundreds had gathered to greet her. Top politicians and others jostled to present flowers and shawls and click selfies with the first Indian woman to win a Silver medal at the Games.

With her is her coach Pulella Gopichand, who has now trained two Olympic medallists in Saina Nehwal and Sindhu. They have boarded a special open double-decker bus commissioned by the Telangana government all the way from Mumbai, and are travelling in a victory rally to a city stadium.

Many people have lined up along the 30 km route to the stadium to cheer Sindhu, 21. Waiting at the stadium, where the Telanagana government has organised a celebration, are hundreds, including students holding up big posters of the champ.

Both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh sent top ministers to greet Ms Sindhu at the airport in the capital they currently share. While Sindhu's mother Vijaya is from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, her father PV Rammna is from Adilabad in Telangana.

Both states have announced rewards to celebrate Sindhu's Silver - the Telangana government will give her a cash reward of 5 crore, a residential plot in Hyderabad and has offered her a job. The Andhra Pradesh government too has offered Sindhu a job and will give her a cash reward of 3 crore and a residential plot in Amravati, the new capital city it is building.

News by: Mehak mehra

I salute Sindhu, entire country is behind her: Ranveer Singh

A charged up Ranveer Singh went all out to cheer for P.V. Sindhu ahead of her final badminton match against Spaniard Carolina Marin. At the launch of his new ad today, Ranveer shouted his heart out for Sindhu and expressed hope that she would win the coveted gold for India today.
“Sindhu we are all so proud of her. Every person in the nation who is following Olympics is proud of her and all our other girls who have done so very well. They kept our Indian flag was flying high yesterday. I salute all of them.”
Talking about her final match, Ranveer said, “It will be a big match and a tough one as she is playing the world no 1. But the entire country is behind her and I hope she gets the gold for India.”

Director Rohit Shetty and actress Tamannaah too lauded Sindhu and expressed hope that she would settle for nothing less than gold tonight.
PV Sindhu will look to make history when she takes the court on Friday evening India time to take on Carolina Marin of Spain in the gold medal match of the women’s singles event. With her convincing win against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara of Japan on Thursday in straight games, Sindhu has become a household name – if she wasn’t already.
Bollywood celebritites like Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan andPriyanka Chopra have congratulated Sindhu who assured the country of at least a silver medal after women’s singles badminton semi-final at the Rio Olympics on Thursday.

Rio Olympics 2016: PV Sindhu’s heart-winning match nets her Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan as fans

PV Sindhu got India its first silver on Thursday at Rio Olympics 2016 and the country can’t thank the shuttler enough. She may have lost the badminton singles match to world number one Carolina Marin but she won a billion hearts with her superlative effort.

As the match began, twitterati and Bollywood celebs were cheering the 21-year-old Sindhu on. Salman Khan shared a picture of Sindhu and him together and wrote, “Saw d finals on tv with my mom and told her I hv a picture with Sindhu . Proud .”

Amitabh Bachchan, an avid sports fan who has been cheering the contingent ever since Olympics began, took to Twitter to write, “#PVSindhu you played your heart out ! All of India is so so proud of you .. Thank for giving us that moment of pride !!! T 2353 – #PVSindhu .. look what you did .. you had 1.25 billion people rooting for you !! That is no mean achievement ! Proud of you !!”

He also had a prediction to make, not just for India’s Olympics chances but also women’s empowerment. “Not the next Olympics in 2020, but the one in 2024 is the one to watch for INDIA !! WE SHALL SUCCEED AND WIN …!!! Treat not the woman’s evolution by the mythic Adam’s rib .. they are proving beyond it !!”

The actor had taken on Shobhaa De a day ago when Sindhu made it to finals. Taking a potshot at Shobhaa’s derisive tweet that Indian athletes have gone to Olympics only to click selfies, Amitabh tweeted that he now wanted a selfie with PV Sindhu.

Deepika Padukone, daughter of badminton champ Prakash Padukone, tweeted, “what an epic epic match!the best I’ve seen in a while!Congratulations @Pvsindhu1 & #PullelaGopichand #Rio2016.”

News By: Mehak mehra.