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After Canada Open triumph, Sen jumps 7 places to be at 12th spot in world rankings

Newly-crowned Canada Open champion Lakshya Sen will hope to continue his winning momentum while beginning his campaign at the US Open Super 300 badminton tournament.

Lakshya Sen dished out a badminton masterpiece to notch up his second BWF Super 500 title with a straight-game win over Li Shi Feng of China in the final.

Sen has a 4-2 head-to-head record against his final opponent Li Shi Feng, the reigning All-England champion. Sen had defeated him recently at the Thailand Open.

PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen notched up contrasting wins to advance to the semifinals of the Canada Open

P V Sindhu and Lakshya Sen progressed to the quarter-finals at the Canada Open Super 500 tournament

Two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu will next play Japan's Natsuki Nidaira, while Sen will be up against Ygor Coelho of Brazil.

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya Sen, Tokyo Olympic B Sai Praneeth and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde will be in action later on Wednesdat.

Sindhu, Sen look to regain lost touch in Canada Open

Raima, Varun have a pet day... Kreethy shares a pic... Plabita eats oranges...

When Jiang Zemin traveled, as you can see in the photographs here, a Kodak Moment was never far away.

Rediff readers tell us how they are celebrating Ganeshotsav this year.

It was supposed to be a happy journey to London, one that the Imam family had been planning for the past two months. Everything was set - except the visa, which did not arrive in time for one of its members. "Visa was the villain...As a consequence, half of the family of four will be in London today and the other half at home in India and the US, respectively," Sanjar Imam, director of travel firm Panache World, wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Bollywood stars travel all the time on work or for a much-needed vacation.

All the top action from Day 6 of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Thursday.

Seventeen Indo-Canadians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, won Canada's parliamentary elections on Tuesday with Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returning to power in the snap polls.

The study suggests that climate change is contributing to such events happening more frequently, and highlights risks of increasing development projects in fragile environments.

Providence will sell up to 30 mn doses of its mRNA vaccine to Biological E. It would also provide the necessary technology transfer to make the vaccine in India, with a minimum production capacity of 600 mn doses in 2022 and targets capacity of 1 bn doses, reports Sohini Das.

Former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap produced yet another inspiring show, outplaying fourth seed Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei, to enter the men's singles final of the Canada Open Super 100 tournament, in Calgary, on Saturday.

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday

Winter Games' least taxing and physically demanding sports feel it necessary to use performance-enhancing drugs

India's Jagdish Singh, on Friday, finished a dismal 103rd in the men's 15-km free cross-country skiing race at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Yun Sung-bin rocketed to the men's skeleton gold on Friday and become the first athlete outside Europe or North America to win an Olympic sliding medal after dominating the event at the Pyeongchang Games.

Sweden's Charlotte Kalla won the first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Saturday after powering away from the field to secure victory in the women's 7.5km + 7.5km skiathlon.

And while the mercury hits its lowest, South Korea's Jang Hye-Ji launched the Games on Thursday by sliding the first mixed doubles curling stone in Olympic history down the ice, before about 2,500 spectators at Gangneung Curling Centre, AFP reported.

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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday

The graffiti was visible around six locations in and around the building of the gurudwara situated in 81st Street in Calgary city of Alberta province.

It was double bonanza for India at the Canada Open as B Sai Praneeth and Rio-bound men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy clinched twin crowns after winning their respective title clash at the $ 55,000 Grand Prix badminton tournament, in Calgary, Canada.

Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and B Sai Praneeth advanced to the semi-finals of the $55,000 Canada Open Grand Prix badminton tournament after notching up contrasting victories in the men's singles competition in Calgary, Canada.

India's shuttlers continued their good run at the Canada Open. Six singles players, including Ajay Jayaram and H S Prannoy, qualified for the quarter-finals in the US $55,000 Grand Prix badminton tournament, in Calgary.

India witnessed another fruitful day at the Canada Open as all its shuttlers, including Ajay Jayaram and H S Prannoy, entered the third round of the $55,000 Grand Prix badminton tournament, in Calgary, Canada.

Rio-bound Indian women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will look to boost their confidence ahead of the Olympic Games when they start their title defence at the Canada Open badminton tournament, starting in Calgary on Tuesday. 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallists, Jwala and Ashwini didn't have the best results in the run up to the Rio Olympics and the duo will look to put their best foot forward when they take the court here with just a little more than a month to go for the Games.

In little over 24 hours, the wildfires, which erupted on Sunday and forced the evacuation of about 80,000 people from Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta, have grown tenfold.

Pulkit Samrat and Yami Gautam have some fun, as they promote their latest film, Sanam Re.