India won the first set 60-56, a solid four-point lead over Korea in the four-set final.
Korea came back strongly in the second set to win 58-54 and level the proceedings at 114-114.
It was a see-saw battle which saw India reclaim advantage in the third set, winning 58-56.
In the final set, the scores were level at 229-229 after it looked like India had won initially. But revised scores read a Korea win at 59-57 to take the match in shootout.
Both the teams had 29/30 in a nailbiting shootout round with Korea hitting the bull's eye in the first shot making the difference.
The Indians gave a tough fight to the overwhelming favourites before going down 228-231 in the final.
The Indian team of Muskan Kirar, Madhumita Kumari and Jyothi Vennam won the first set, but could not sustain the momentum, going down 59-57, 56-58, 58-58, 55-58.
Dipika lost 0-3 (7-11, 9-11, 6-11) to defending champion and former World No.1 Nicol David of Malaysia while Joshana went down 1-3 (5-11, 10-12, 11-5, 10-12) to another Malaysian Sivasangari Subramaniam.
Ghosal, meanwhile, wasted a two-set advantage to lose the men's singles semi-final 2-3 (12-10, 13-11, 6-11, 6-11, 6-11) to Chun Ming Au from Hong Kong in a cliffhanger.
Despite the reversals, this is India's best ever show in the Asian Games in squash singles.
In the 2014 Asian Games, India won two singles medals -- Ghosal had a silver and Dipika a bronze.
In the first game, Ghosal rallied remarkably to comeback from 4-9 down at one stage to take the lead.
The second game saw the Kolkata-based lad having a 4-0 lead but Chun Ming was not in a mood to throw in the towel and pushed his rival to the brink.
It was a very close contest at 8-8, 9-9 and 11-11 but Ghosal eventually had the last laugh with a winner to take a 2-0 lead in the match.
However, in the third set, from a lead of 6-5, Ghosal lost six points in a row to allow Chung Ming to make a comeback.
Dipika, on the other hand, led 5-2 and 4-1 in the first two games but three-time defending champion Nicol had enough experience to run away with a 11-7 11-9 11-6 win.
The 26-year-old had beaten Japanese Kobayashi Misaki 3-0 in the quarter-finals, while Joshana beat Hong Kong's Chan Ho Ling by a similar margin to advance to the last four stage.
At the Asiad, both losing semi-finalists bag a bronze and there is no bronze medal play-off.
David has won the Asian Games singles titles four times earlier.
This is only the second gold for India since they started participating in the rowing events at the Asiad. The first was won by Bajrang Lal Takhar in men's singles sculls at the 2010 Games.
The Indian team clocked a time of 6 minutes and 17.13 seconds while hosts Indonesia clocked 6:20.58 to take the silver. Thailand had to be content with the bronze at 6:22.41.
The other Indian rowers in the men's section also enjoyed a successful day with bronze medals coming in the lightweight single sculls and lightweight double sculls categories.
Dushyant started India's campaign on the sixth day of the Asian Games on a positive note by bagging the bronze medal in the men's lightweight single sculls final.
The 25-year-old, who had also clinched a bronze at the 2014 Asiad, clocked a time of 7 minutes and 18.76 seconds to finish the competition at the third place.
South Korea's Hyunsu Park (7 minutes and 12.86 seconds) secured the gold while Hin Chun Chiu (7 minutes 14.16 seconds) bagged silver.
India bagged another bronze when Bhagwan Singh and Rohit Kumar finished third in the men's lightweight double sculls final.
Clocking a time of 7 minutes 04.61 seconds, the Indian pair were at the third place in the finals.
The Japanese pair comprising Masayuki Miyaura and Masahiro Takeda secured gold, while Byumhoon Kim and Minhyuk Lee of South Korea clinched silver.
But the Indian women's four team turned out to be a disappointment as they finished sixth and last in the final. Continental powerhouse China won gold with 7:05.50 while Vietnam (7:14.52) and Indonesia (7:19.02) took silver and bronze respectively.
Bopanna and Sharan were made to work hard for an hour and 12 minutes by the Japanese duo of Kaito Uesugi and Sho Shimabukuro before grinding out a 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 win.
The Japanese lacked the power and big serve of the Indians, but made up with accurate placements and some good work at the net.
Playing against more experienced and higher ranked opponents, Kaito and Sho did well to win the first set.
The second set went with the serve till the Indians earned their first service break in the eighth game to take a 5-3 lead.
Serving for the set, Divij conceded a 0-40 deficit before fighting back to 40-40 and eventually holding serve to draw level.
The Indians then won the tie-breaker to enter the tennis final.
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In the women's singles semi-finals, India's Ankita Raina will have to be content with a bronze medal after a straight sets loss to top seed Zhang Shuai of China.
Despite not being at full fitness, Ankita gave a spirited fight against a much higher rated opponent who is placed more than 150 places above her in the WTA rankings.
Despite losing the first set, Ankita fought back and almost won the second set before going down 4-6, 6-7 in a tough, long drawn battle that lasted for two hours and 11 minutes.
The first set was hard fought with Ankita leading 4-3 at one stage before the Chinese player won three consecutive games to win the set.
Zhang broke Ankita's serve in the third game of the second set and held serve to take a 3-1 lead.
But the Indian hit back with a service break of her own to claw back to level terms at 3-3. She then held serve to take a 4-3 lead.
With the second set tied at 6-6 the issue went into the tie-breaker. Ankita was trailing in the tie-breaker but made a superb comeback to equalise at 6-6.
But Ankita then hit a return too long before another return into the net handed the match to Zheng.
Sanjeev scored 452.7 in the final. The 37-year-old had earlier bagged bronze in the same category at the 2006 Doha Asian Games.
China's Hui Zicheng secured the gold medal after scoring 453.3, while Japan's Takayuki Matsumoto settled for bronze with a score of 441.4.
The 37-year old Rajput gave a good account of himself in the keeling and prone positions, although he struggled in the standing round which eventually stood in the way of him winning the gold.
Rajput rallied to recover from 7.8 in the third series of the kneeling position to finish in the top position with a score of 151.2.
In prone, Rajput consistently shot 10s and was ahead of the pack from start to finish. He had a total score of 307.1 after 30 shots.
In the standing position, Rajput led after the first series with a score of 355.6. But as Zicheng fought to catch up with him, Rajput lost his spark and ended second best.
Saurabh clinched the gold after a score of 240.7 while Abhishek stood third scoring 219.3.
Tomoyuki Matsuda of Japan secured the silver with 239.7.
Besides the grapplers, Indian shooters Deepak Kumar and Lakhsya Sheoran on Monday bagged silver medals in their respective categories while Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar bagged a bronze on the opening day of the competitions on Sunday.
According to a statement from Twitter, fans in India took to the social media site to celebrate the flurry of medals.
"Twitter was buzzing with chatter around the Asian Games courtesy golds for Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, silver for Deepak Kumar, and bronze for Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar. Conversation numbers soared past the 400k mark with regards to tweets related to Team India at the Asian Games 2018, showing once again that live sport happens on Twitter," the statement said.
The Indian contingent caught the eye of some notable figures from the country, including batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Indian pair scored 429.9 in the final round to finish on the podium.
Chinese Taipei won the gold with a score of 494.1 while China took silver with 492.5.
The Asiad flame entered Jakarta through East Jakarta-West Java province's border town of Bogor earlier in the day in a ceremony which featured the torching of a mini cauldron with the historical flame in Jakarta eastern municipality.
Through a series of relay runs, the flame was scheduled to pass through landmark places and tourism spots in each of Jakarta's east, south, north, west and central municipalities, reports Xinhua news agency.
The Asiad flame's cross-nation relay began from Yogyakarta province on July 18.
The flame was lit in India's Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi that hosted the first Asian Games in 1951. It arrived in Yogyakarta airport after being flown from New Delhi on July 15.
Before being lit in the Asian Games opening ceremony on August 18, the flame will be kept in Indonesia's presidential palace.
The dignitaries present on the occasion included DG Sports Authority of India (SAI) Neelam Kapoor, BFI President Ajay Singh, Cdr. Rajgopalan, CO, TOPS and India's team manager and veteran BFI member Nirwan Mukherjee along with other senior officials from the Sports Authority, according to a statement.
The pugilists with memorable outings in Germany, including their participation in the Chemistry Cup, were upbeat after their exposure trips and participation in a string of top notch international tournaments ahead of the Games.
"Our boxers have really worked hard, put in months of effort and are battle-ready for the Asian Games. I am confident of a good show by them and hope we can contribute handsomely to India's medal tally," said Ajay Singh, BFI President, wishing the boxers a good, medal-winning outing.
DG SAI, Neelam Kapoor said that the boxers have been proving their worth consistently by winning medals in international competitions and she was hopeful they would do India proud yet again at the Games this time.
"We always bank on the boxers to deliver and they have rarely failed us," said the director general, as she wished the contingent the best of luck.
Vikas Krishnan, the 2010 Games gold medal winner, was very upbeat while he interacted with the reporters, saying he was looking forward to winning gold in the 75 kg class in Jakarta.
"We cannot ask for a better preparation than what was provided to us. We began soon after we returned from the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast," Vikas said.
"We participated in top international tournaments; the best of all was the challenges we faced at the Chemistry Cup in Germany. We have the best possible team and I am confident of a strong finish," the Arjuna awardee added.
Of the three women pugilists, Sonia Lather is expected to lead the pack. She sounded optimistic about her performance as well as the other two members who will be making their debut in the Asian Games in Jakarta.
"Like me, they too have made good preparations. During our trip to Mongolia and Russia recently we had the best exposure possible against some of the top boxers from powerhouses like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Hong Kong," Lather said.
"Our coach (Rafeele) has worked with us on various strategies to tackle possible tough situations. All of us are confident and surely each one of us will be aiming for gold," said the silver medallist from the 2016 World Championships.
Performance Director and Men's Foreign Coach Santiago Nieva and Women's Foreign Coach Rafeele Bergamesco said India had a very good chance.
"Our preparations have been really good and the boxers are in real shape. This gives us all the assurance that we will return home with medals," said Nieva.
The boxers so far have amassed 55 medals in the Asian Games.
The continental event which is in its 18th edition will start on August 18, with the boxing events commencing on August 24 and will run till September 1.
Indian women's team had won a bronze medal at Incheon four years ago and Sindhu hoped they can change the colour of the medal this time when the multi-sport event gets underway on August 18.
"Definitely, it is going to be very different. Because, we have the team events and also the individuals. Very less time to prepare. But, as a team, last time we got bronze. This time, we would expect a better one," said Sindhu, who clinched her second silver at the World championships last Sunday.
"Also, individuals, I hope that I do well. Taking the World Championship silver, taking it as a confidence, I hope that I move forward and do well."
India haven't won a medal in women's singles at the Asian Games. Eight-time former national champion Syed Modi is the only individual medallist for India at the Asiad, having won a bronze at the 1982 New Delhi edition.
Sindhu defeated top Asian players such as Japanese duo of Nozomi Okuhara and Akane Yamaguchi and Korea's Sung Ji Hyun en route to her second successive final at the World Championship.
Given her impressive form, chief national coach Pullela Gopichand is hopeful of another successful outing at the Asian Games.
"I think to beat Okuhara in the quarter-finals and Yamaguchi in the semi-finals is something very good. Beating both of them, the way she (Sindhu) did, I think it has been fantastic. We are hopeful for another successful event at the Asian Games in the coming 10 days," he said yesterday.
Talking about her performance at the World Championship, Sindhu said: "I am really very happy for the silver. It's been a good week. As you all know the draw was comparatively tough. From the first round, there were good tough matches. It's good that from my side, I gave my 100 per cent.
"Definitely, I will have to try more harder and harder until I get that gold. I hope, one day, I will get that."
Sindhu finished second after losing to Olympic champion Carolina Marin in the title clash. It was her second defeat in the summit clash as she had lost an epic final against Okuhara at Glasgow last year.
Asked about the performances of other players in the World Championship, Goichand said: "I think we had four quarter-finalists at the world championships more than it has ever been. But, I think there were areas which could have improved definitely. (Kidambi) Srikanth and (HS) Prannoy could have done better," he said.
"The conditions were a little tricky at the World Championship as some days were slow and some days were fast and it was a learning experience for the players.
"We had the Commonwealth this year, we did well. We had the World Championships relatively good. Hopefully, at the Asian Games, if we do well, this year will be a successful year for Indian badminton," he said.
In its effort to encourage sports persons to excel in national and international fora, the government had come up with this decision, he said while attending the state Boxing Championship at Chaupadia here.
The appointment would be in addition to cash incentives to sports persons announced by the state government, the minister said.
An in-principle decision has been taken in this regard, but in view of the DSP post being a gazetted one, concurrence by the selection board concerned was awaited, he said.
Besides Olympics and Asiad, those who win medals in other national and international events would be appointed as inspectors, havildars and constables directly, he said adding a final decision has been taken in this connection.
The Odisha government had given an award of Rs 30 lakh to international hockey player Birendra Lakra and Rs 12 lakh to badminton player Pramod Bhagat as per cash incentive scheme for international players.
Altogether 205 pugilists from 14 districts participated in the championship to vie for medals in 11 different categories.
The two gold medals provided the final flourish for India at the Games, which can be considered a disappointment for the country given that the overall medal count went down in this edition.
Although the women's team won their match against Iran quite comfortably, it was not a cakewalk for the men's team which literally overcame a scare before notching up their seventh successive gold medal in the event.
Hammer thrower Manju Bala's medal was upgraded from bronze to silver after a Chinese competitor who finished ahead of her was caught for doping.
With two gold medals coming today, India were placed eighth on the table with a total haul of 57 medals -- 11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze. China continued to be at the top with an impressive haul of 337 (149-107-81) followed by hosts South Korea 227 (76-71-80) and Japan 194 (46-72-76).
The medal collection was well below India's expectation as they had managed a haul of 65 -- 14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze -- in the previous edition of the Games in Guangzhou.
With no Indian participation on the last day of competitions tomorrow, the country's overall standing can change depending on others' performance.
Today, staging a fantastic second-half recovery, Indian men surged to gold by defeating Iran 27-25 in a thrilling final at the Songdo University Gymnasium.
India thus completed a golden double on the kabaddi mat for the second successive edition after the women defeated the same nation 31-21 in their final held earlier in the day.
The country thus boosted its overall gold tally to 11 on the final day of competitions here.
But it was touch and go for the Indian men, who have won the gold medal with ease on the six previous occasions since kabaddi was introduced in the 1990 Games at Beijing. They played catch-up with Iran for most part of the game before drawing level with the last seven minutes of the 40-minute match left.
Chasing an unprecedented eighth yellow metal in the mega-event, the Indian men defeated South Korea 36-25 in the semi-final to cruise into yet another final.
India scored 14 points to Korea's 12 at the end of first half, but raised their game in the second to log another 22 points as against the opposition's 13.
India earned seven bonus points in the first half and 1 in the second, besides two lona each in the both halves. There was no lona for Korea, who were awarded five bonus points in the match.
India had earlier beaten Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand to top Group A with an all-win record.
Indian men have won the kabaddi gold in each edition since the sport was added in the 1990 Games.
Earlier, the Indian women's kabaddi team recorded a comprehensive 41-28 victory over Thailand in the semifinals and stormed into the title clash with a lot of confidence while ensuring at least a silver medal.
While both teams were tied at 14-14 at the end of first half, the Indians were at their devastating best in the second half as they scored 27 points to the opposition's 14, ensuring a comfortable win in the process.
India won 2 bonus points in the first half and four in the second besides as many lona on court 2 of Songdo Global University Gymnasium. They will meet Iran, who have beaten Bangladesh in the semifinal, in the title clash tomorrow.
In contrast, Thailand earned seven bonus points in the first half and six in the second, but there was not a single lona.
In the initial phase, the Indian women had produced a clinical performance to outwit hosts South Korea 45-26 and ensure their passage into the last-four stage as group toppers. India had beaten Bangladesh in their opening match.
Wrestler Bajrang and the men's tennis combination of Sanam Singh and Myneni picked up silver medals on yet another productive day for the Indian contingent.
Athletes O P Jaisha (women's 1500m) and Naveen Kumar (men's 3000m steeplechase) and wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav (74kg) also contributed to the medal collection by picking up bronze medals.
The 27-year-old Sania stole the limelight as she paired up with unheralded Myneni to carve out an easy victory in the final against the Chinese Taipei pair of Hao Ching Chan and Hsien Yin Peng as the Indians ended their tennis campaign with an impressive haul of five medals.
On the track and field, it was Seema's day as she clinched the coveted gold medal, making amends for her non-participation in the last two Games in Guangzhou and Doha.
Bajrang (61kg) was also a star performer as he scripted remarkable come-from-behind victories to reach the final where he ultimately succumbed to Massoud Mahmoud of Iran in a closely-contested bout.
The wrestlers continued to provide the much-needed boost to India's medal collection as Narsingh Yadav also claimed a bronze in the men's 74kg freestyle event.
With the addition of seven medals today, India maintained their ninth position with a total of haul of 42 -- six gold, seven silver and 29 bronze. China maintained their supremacy with a tally of 238 (112-72-54) followed by hosts South Korea 146 and Japan 132.
However, there was disappointment for the women's hockey team which lost the semifinal match against South Korea 1-3 and will now take on Japan for the bronze medal play-off.
The boxing ring also did not bring much cheers for the Indians with former World Championship bronze-medallist Vikas Krishan (75kg) being the only one to advance to quarterfinals.
Gaurav Bhiduri (52kg), Mandeep Jangra (69kg) and Kuldeep Singh (81kg) bowed out after losing their respective quarterfinal bouts.
Egged on by a huge contingent of Indian supporters, Yogeshwar managed to pip his tough opponent, who had scaled down his weight by five kgs within 10 days after having fought and secured fifth spot in the 70kg at the World Championships held before the Games in Tashkent, 3-0 in the gold medal contest.
This is India's first Asian Games wrestling gold after 1986 when Kartar Singh won it in this country, at Seoul which is just over 25kms away from this city.
However, two other Indian wrestlers Satywart Kadian and Babita Kumari both missed out on third-place finishes as they went down in men's 97kg freestyle and women's 55kg freestyle.
Yogeshwar, who fought so bravely in the London Games to bag a bronze medal to go with his friend Sushil Kumar's silver, was very pleased that he had fetched the country its first gold in nearly three decades.
"I'm very happy as India have won a gold medal in Asian Games after 28 years and Korea has been a lucky country for me. It was in Korea that I won the gold for the first time in Asian Championships in 2008 and again in 2012," said the grappler who will be 32 on November 2, after a gruelling day during which he fought and won three bruising bouts despite carrying a small calf injury.
"All the three bouts were tough. I had a small problem with my calf muscle and because of that my mobility was affected," the wrestler from Delhi said.
He complimented his Tajikh rival, who was fifth in the world championships in the higher (70kg) weight class, for putting up a superb defense.
"In the final, my rival was top class. Though I tried to go for his legs but his defense was really good. But then my defense was also good so that I could evade his attacks."
The fifth seeded Indian combo put up a brave fight before going down 6-7 (1-7) 6-2 10-4 to the Chinese Taipei duo, seeded second, at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts here.
Sania and Prarthana took the courts and toiled hard for an hour and 35 minutes but at the end failed to make it to the finals.
Both the pairs fought hard in the opening frame to take the set to a tiebreaker. The Taipei duo finally managed to win the set after nearly an hour's play.
The Indians, however, came back strongly in the second set and managed to prevail over their higher ranked opponents in just 32 minutes.
But the deciding set turned out to be a cake-walk for the Taipei combination as they took barely 10 minutes to seal it 10-4 and draw the curtains on the tie.
Earlier, Yuki Bhambri had clinched India's lone singles' medal in tennis after settling for a bronze in the men's event following a 6-3 2-6 1-6 loss to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in the semifinal here.
With a silver and a bronze, through Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal respectively in the individual events, the squash players signed off with their best ever medal haul in the Games.
The icing on the cake was provided by the men's team, led by Ghosal, which clinched the historic gold after edging out Malaysia in the summit clash.
Ghosal played out of his skin to guide India to a 2-0 win against Malaysia in a n energy-sapping contest that lasted two hours and 26 minutes at the Yeorumul Squash Courts here.
It was 25-year-old Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, who started the proceedings for India on a positive note as he saw off Iskandar Mohamad Azlan Bin 11-8 11-6 8-11 11-4 in the opening match that lasted 58 minutes.
World No.16 Ghosal then bounced back from a game down to eke out a 6-11 11-7 11-6 12-14 11-9 win over former world no.
7, Ong Beng Hee in a gruelling 88-minute clash to give India a healthy 2-0 lead.
The Kolkata-player, who had a 1-1 record against Ong before this match, had to dig deep against the Malaysian, who turned the tables in the fourth game which lasted 19 minutes.
Dipika Pallikal also assured the country of its first women's singles squash medal in the Asian Games.
New shooting sensation Jitu Rai, who gave India the first gold medal on Saturday, was again the standout performer as he guided the men's team to the bronze medal in 10m air pistol event at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range.
Rai's splendid and precise shooting, that helped him garner 585 points and qualify for the medal round with the second-best score, backed up by Samaresh Jung's 580 (who finished 9th) and Prakash Nanjappa's 578 (14th), albeit with an injured leg, helped India garner 1743 points, the same as second placed China, for the bronze.
In fact, India and China were level on points and the silver was decided by the number of Xs (bullseye) in the tens in which the latter tallied one more -- 65 to India's 64.
The gold was won by hosts South Korea with a combined tally of 1744.
In badminton, a fighting India went down to hosts South Korea 1-3 in the women's team semifinals to settle for their maiden bronze medal at the Asian Games.
This was India's first medal in badminton since the team bronze won by the men in Seoul, 1986. The country's women had to be satisfied with their first-ever medal in Asian Games history after seven bronze medals won by men.
India's number one shuttler, Saina Nehwal pulled off a great victory in three tough games against Korean world number four Sung Jihyun 21-12 10-21 21-9 in the opening match that lasted for 56 minutes.
But thereafter, the Indians lost their next three matches to go down to a formidable opponents. P V Sindhu fought tooth and nail before losing to the host country's world number six Bae Yeonju 21-14 18-21 21-13.
Korean pair of Kim Soyeong and Chang Yena won the doubles against the Indian duo of Pradnya Gadre and N Sikki Reddy 21-16 21-17 and then Kim Hyomin smashed P C Thulasi 21-12 21-18 to settle the issue in hosts' favour.