This week's collection of unbelievably unusual images from across the world
Srikanth had entered the finals of Commonwealth Games last year but he failed to reach the summit clash in any BWF superseries or BWF World Tour tournament since his French Open win in October, 2017.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Sindhu leads India to 3-2 win over Hong Kong in Asia badminton Team Championship
Most key rabi-producing states of north India, such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, have staggered their procurement to enable farmers to come in batches, so that there is no overcrowding. The Centre has also set up a call centre to coordinate the inter-state movement of farm commodities.
Padmini Rout has 6.5 points, one behind the leader, Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, in the girls' section at the World Junior Chess Championships in Pune.
Here is a look at some of Aseem Chhabra's favourite memories of 2020 in Hindi cinema, performances by well-known and new actors, special moments in films and shows.
Parth Gupta quit a good corporate job to work for the welfare of farmers in rural Madhya Pradesh.
At places in the border districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, people walked miles through the desert to cast their votes.
He was asked to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 50,000 in the case of assault and of Rs 20,000 in the other case.
The Trinamool Congress leader had been languishing without a portfolio for over four months.
Social media helps #RainHosts come to the rescue of those stuck in every part of the island city.
Seema, 22, left her husband's home over a year-and-a-half ago after her repeated requests of getting a toilet built at home fell on deaf ears.
Three pistol-waving bearded men stormed a 60-year-old temple in Karachi and desecrated the idol of a Hindu deity, leading to fear among the minority community in Pakistan's largest city, a media report said on Tuesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A wall hanging featuring Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad left the prime minister in awe
Baghel led from the front to take on the BJP, led by Raman Singh, after being entrusted the task to revive the Congress' fortunes in Chhattisgarh following the third consecutive defeat in the 2013 assembly polls.
'I have only this to say to those who talk about Mewar rulers and Akbar's brutality -- do you expect a king to not expand his kingdom?' 'You have entire cities named after Muslim rulers. It's time our heroes got their due.'
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Top shuttlers are unlikely to take part in the hastily arranged selection trials by Badminton Association of India.
PepsiCo head Indra Nooyi believes so but we want to know what you think.
Legendary Prakash Padukone was revered as the world number one player during his hey days before the modern day computerised ranking system was introduced.
Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin on Tuesday filed his nomination papers for Hyderabad Cricket Association president's post after incumbent Arshad Ayub quit office following the Supreme Court verdict on Lodha committee reforms.
GoAir on Monday said it plans expansion and has ordered 20 A320 aircraft .
Nothing has been done for Dalits in the last four years, Nagina MP Yashwant Singh wrote in a letter to the PM.
It said that rebels of the Manipur People's Army, the armed wing of the UNLF, came from across the Myanmar border and a gunfight took place at Gamphazol village.
'The investment rate in China might be high precisely because the return on capital in China is high'.
'There is no one who can fill the vacuum created by the passing of Girija Devi,' mourns Sunita Budhiraja.
The parties seem to have forgotten their two decade-old antagonism for a 'political revolution' which they hope would 'last long'.
World champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Chinese Taipei's No 1 shuttler Tai Tzu Ying will be up for grabs when the high-profile Players' Auction for the lucrative Premier Badminton League gets underway in Hyderabad on Monday.
'One must remember that a dragon has a forked tongue,' warns Vivek Gumaste.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
'Panipat has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Ashutosh Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha manoos,' says Sukanya Verma.
The former All England champion will be in charge of the team till the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
China's Guangdong province will auction off for 50 years uninhabited islands for tourism, transportation and trade purposes.
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