By putting his predecessor to history, Modi announced that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will be renamed after India's hockey legend Dhyan Chand as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
Day 13 was a mixture of great and tricky for India, as the Hockey team made a marvellous history but wrestling events and the 20km Race walk event made a slippery result.
India has won the second Silver medal in the ongoing Olympics tournament, taking the country's medal tally to five including two Silver and three Bronze medals.
As the Indian team shares the medal podium, they had dotted up the four-decade wait by presenting a historical triumph in a spectacle-less battle at Tokyo.
Currently, India stands at the 62nd spot in the Olympics medal tally with three medals. Let's take a look at how the Indian contingent ended its twelfth day of the Tokyo Olympics.
Lovlina, a native of Golaghat of Assam, has become the third Indian to win an Olympic medal in boxing after Vijendra Singh (2008) and Mary Kom (2012) and all three boxers were settled for Bronze.
The Indian contingent hasn't put a magnificent show as the campaigns of some of the most-expected victories had eventually failed with the country still yet to open its 'Gold'en account.
Speaking for the first time after arriving home, Sindhu said, "I am very happy and excited. I am thankful to everyone including the Badminton Association for supporting and encouraging me."
Despite these mentionable events we have tomorrow, Indian fans are nervously waiting for the Hockey battle against Belgium, as it may place in the Indian history of the Olympics.
Ying has lost the finals and settled for the Silver medal while Sindhu took the medal podium by winning the Bronze medal, the second medal for India in the Tokyo Olympics.
