India's table tennis star Manika Batra was part of a star-studded Team Asia that beat Team World in the inaugural Waldner Cup in Oslo, Norway.
Six-times World table tennis champion and 1992 Olympic gold medallist Jan-Ove Waldner has become the first living foreigner to appear on a Chinese postage stamp.
China's top men's doubles pair of Kong Linghiu and Wang Hao were upset in the third round of the Olympic table tennis tournament on Wednesday by the veteran Swedish duo of Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson.
But the EU would like New Delhi to first fulfil certain 'necessary preconditions.'
The just-concluded India-European Union Summit was a "success" as it implemented the strategic partnership launched last year and drafted a new action plan and political declaration, a top European Union official said on Friday.
The European Union on Friday made it clear that India will have to take a 'few steps' like associating with NPT and CTBT before the 25-nation body can decide on cooperating with it in civil nuclear energy.
Kumaratunga told visiting European Union Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner Monday that she expected talks to begin soon for lasting negotiated settlement in the country.
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