Defending champion Roger Federer argued with an umpire but mostly let his racket do the talking as he beat Tomas Berdych for the ninth time running to reach the Australian Open semi-finals on Wednesday.
With exactly a year to go for the deferred Tokyo Olympics, India hockey captains Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal are confident of a good showing at the Games.
The choice of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak this year clearly indicates that New Delhi wants to raise the level of its political relationship with Seoul to a higher level to match its burgeoning economic ties with South Korea.
Somdev Devvarman failed to move beyond the quarter-final stage of the ATP Challenger event in Seoul, Korea after losing his last-eight stage match in straight sets to Dusan Lojda of Czech Republic.
Mbappe and Benzema inspire France to 2-0 win against Finland
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
Deputy US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Wednesday announced that three indictments have been unsealed in the matter that collectively charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two Malaysian nationals with helping some of those hackers target victims and sell the fruits of their crime.
Cinemas, stadiums, town squares and other public gathering places are devoid of people as the coronavirus spreads to at least 118 countries around the world. As of Thursday, the Johns Hopkins University tracker says 1,26,258 people have contracted the disease and 4,638 have died across the globe. The vast majority of the victims have been in China but the country said on Thursday that it had only 15 new cases. The outbreak also claimed its most high-profile victim so far when Hollywood star Tom Hanks announced he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had tested positive. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is making a film about Elvis, said they had felt "a bit tired, like we had colds" before being "found to be positive" Take a look.
India was handed an easy draw for next year's Davis Cup campaign in Asia/Oceania Group I, pitted against Chinese Taipei in their first round tie.
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Indian archers made a resounding start at World Cup Stage 1 event at Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic, with Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia finishing one-two in the men's recurve qualification round. The Indian men and women also stood first in recurve team qualifications on Wednesday, the first day of the event.
United States President Barack Obama will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London on April 2, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, the White House announced.
Chinese hubris and the slippery slope it finds itself on have important lessons for authoritarian leaders elsewhere, including in India, observes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Why omit the Tiananmen massacre from the history of China's Communist party, asks Claude Arpi.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday conveyed India's security concerns to her North Korean counterpart Ri Su Yong in New Delhi, emphasising the significance of peace and stability in the Korean peninsula for the country.
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INSAG is a wing of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Thirty-two teams that qualified for the 2006 Football World Cup Finals in Germany were on Friday drawn into eight groups.
A World Bank report says that in comparison to 708 R&D researchers per million population in China, the number was a dismal 119 in India in 2004. While the same is 3,319 in Russian Federation, in Brazil the number of researchers per million population is a much better 344.
The Asia-Pacific Mobile Alliance plans to promote voice, video and data via members' GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA networks.
The announcement to admit Pakistan in ASEM was made at Helsinki on Monday following the sixth Summit of the organisation.
India, which was listed 78th last year, has improved its ranking, figuring at 75th position with a visa-free score of 51
'Fear of this virus has created havoc. No one want to take risks by visiting.'
India has become world's 2nd largest mobile phone: Modi
A new study by the International Labour Office estimates that one in five workers around the world -- or over 600 million persons -- are still working more than 48 hours a week, often merely to make two ends meet. The question is: Are we overworked?
How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen?
Spain's preparations for Euro 2016 suffered a blow as they were beaten 1-0 by Georgia on Tuesday in their final warmup friendly ahead of the tournament in France. Tornike Okriashvili tapped in from close range in the 39th minute to secure a surprise victory for Georgia at Getafe's Coliseum Alfonso Perez stadium. Spain, who have won the last two European Championships, had not lost since being beaten in a friendly by the Netherlands in March 2015 and came into their final warmup match after convincing wins against Bosnia and South Korea. The hosts, however, lacked a cutting edge against a well-organised Georgia side who defended deep after taking the lead.
Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a gold in the 25m standard pistol event for junior men after combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to claim the team gold on the last day of the ISSF World Championships.
'The fact that Modi and Xi exuded confidence to accelerate the negotiations for a border settlement alone underscores that the Russia-India-China triangle has become very dynamic,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
India's outgoing Davis Cup captain Anand Amritraj termed as bitter-sweet, the All India Tennis Association's (AITA) decision to hand him a farewell tie in February and predicted some tough time for the next man in charge, Mahesh Bhupathi. The AITA Executive Committee decided to give Amritraj one last tie as reports emerged recently that he will be asked to go on account of indiscipline in the Indian team. AITA did not give him the one-year term he had wished but has given Amritraj a chance to make a graceful exit for himself and he would like to go on a high by winning the tie against the Kiwis.
'India-China economic ties are likely to take a hit in the wake of the new situation, but that also provides India with a new opportunity to strengthen its manufacturing base,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
In 2004, the patent office in India received around 20,000 patent filings, which included resident and non-resident patent applications, according to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell made the remark on Thursday, adding that the Trump administration is closely watching the Indo-China situation.
Quaison fires Sweden to extra-time World Cup playoff win over Czechs
The focus of the centre will be to strengthen the economic and trade partnership of both the countries and also to diversify the cultural and academic interests of both the countries.
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