The cool-as-cucumber Indian broke her rival in the second game, but was immediately broken back. However, Shikha kept up the good show to demolish Fujiwara in the fourth and eighth games to take the set.
The Indo-Japanese pair was beaten by the Hungarian-Ukrainian combination of Melinda Czink and Yulian Fedak at the Sunfeast Open.
A holdover of British colonial days, caning is a standard punishment for more than 40 crimes in Malaysia, ranging from sexual abuse to drug use. Administered with a thick rattan stick, it splits the skin and leaves scars.
The Indian golfer is in sixth place in the Qatar Open. Swede Henrik Stenson leads the field after the third round.
Anirban Lahiri's victory at the Venetian Macau Open on Sunday edged him closer towards the Order of Merit summit while giving him a huge boost on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).
The epidemic had forced the government to sack the health minister as well as the mayor of Beijing.
Unlike the Australian GP, where the majority of drivers carried out only one pit-stop, of Sunday's second race of the season, at Sepang, Malaysia, will see at least two, says Raja Sen.
Jyoti Randhawa was the best-placed of five Indians who made the cut at the Hong Kong Open.
According to the QNB Group report, the growth in emerging markets -- from Brazil to Indonesia, Russia and South Africa -- is slowing down, partly reflecting the tightening of domestic policies by these countries last year to stabilise foreign exchange rates.
The deal includes 700 million for the refit and modernisation of the ship and rest for a complement of 28 Mig-29K fighters and six Kamov-31 anti-submarine helicopters.
Our readers tell us what they would do should they ever make such an amount in the stock market.
While Watson is a near comparable to Ranbaxy in terms of the generics business in the US, on margins and capital efficiency front, Ranbaxy is way ahead of Watson.
Two US warships fired at least 50 cruise missiles at the Ash Shai'rat airfield in Homs province in western Syria, from where the US administration believes Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fired the chemical weapons against his own people, media reports said.
The UAE bowlers have been made the offer for bagging the scalp of the batting maestro in the Asia Cup opener.
The world's greatest cricketers will play a one-off six-day Test and three game one-day series in Sydney and Melbourne in October 2005.
India's top golfer will rub shoulders with the world's leading golfers in the May 20-23 Euro three million tournament.
An average of 30-40 per cent automation is standard across all big automobile plants in the country
India captain Sardar Singh fetched a poor return of US $58,000 while Germany's Moritz Fuerste drew the highest ever bid in the history of the Hockey India League auction, bought by Kalinga Lancers for a whopping US $1,05,000 in Delhi on Thursday.
The 30-share Sensex ended 50 points lower at 28,112 and the 50-share Nifty declined 12 points to close at 8,531.
The Aeroflot, in which the Indian team travelled, demanded US dollars 1,000 to be paid for the excess baggage.
The Indian ace moved to tied-25th from 57th spot overnight after a rain restricted second round.\n\n
Compatriots Arjun Singh, Amandeep Johl, Harmeet Kahlon and Jeev Milkha Singh were also way behind after the opening day in the Carlsberg Malaysian Open.
The Hero Honda Masters champion hopes to become the first player from India to play full-time on the elite US PGA Tour.
The former Thai paratrooper registered his sixth triumph in Asia.
The Indian ace held off a stiff challenge from Retief Goosen to claim his second European title.
When rain stopped play, the Indian ace was cruising along at two-under par after eight holes, which gave him a tournament tally of 17-under.
Jeev Milkha Singh, Jyoti Randhawa and Arjun Atwal will lead the Indian challenge at the tournament.
The ATP had fined him US$106,000 for failing to attend an interview. The world no 1 says he has been defamed and wants the fine dropped.
The Indian ace completed his third round in the Malaysian Open in four-under-par 67 for a two-shot lead over world No. 5 Retief Goosen.
The Women's Tennis Association, which has turned to Asia to grow its sport, is unclear how the International Tennis Premier League is going to pan out. 'We are still learning about it, just as the world and the media is,' said Melissa Pines, Vice-President, Asia-Pacific, on the sidelines of its new announcement to bring the season-ending BNP Paribas WTA Championships to South East Asia for the first time this year.
The deepening of the Formula One financial crisis prompted Force India boss Vijay Mallya to say that the sport's owners must fix the revenue sharing model among teams for the survival of smaller outfits like his.
Even smaller companies like Torrent Pharma and Alembic file five to 10 ANDAs every year.
Dhruv Gupta, Fitness Expert and Founder of weight loss program, FitHo and author of Losing it: Making Weight loss simple, lists out the most popular health myths.
Despite the devastation that has struck this tiny mountain nation, Dr Vani Kori - who volunteered her service in Nepal for 10 days - believes it will soon rebuild itself.
The national carrier's market share has declined from a near-monopoly to 16.6 per cent as of September 2014.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player ratings for the ongoing IPL 8
India is poorer than the world average and so naturally has a greater percentage of poor people and a lower percentage of rich people. Yet using absolute numbers, India has more of almost everything, which is misleading, says Debraj Ray and Maitreesh Ghatak.
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