In the women's draw, world silver-medallist Sonia Chahal (57kg) advanced to the last-four stage at the continental showpiece.
Shameem Akthar, yoga acharya trained with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, will take you through five practices that will see through this monsoon.
The Plan panel on Wednesday said it has appointed civil rights activist Binayak Sen, convicted for sedition, on the board of one of its steering committees to give input for 12th Plan (2012-17) on health related issues.
The knives are out, and directed at one man. Ricky Ponting. With the fans and former cricketers gunning for his head after the Ashes loss, Australia's captain had an ideal opportunity to redeem himself by winning the World Cup.
Five brothers playing first class cricket, including four appearing in Test matches as well, reads like a fairy tale. But it is true. Indeed, cricket historians and statisticians have never been tired of recounting how Hanif Mohammad, who passed into the ages on August 11, and his three brothers dominated Pakistan cricket in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Apart from Hanif, eldest Wazir Mohammad and younger ones Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad represented Pakistan in the top division of cricket.
Railways has pledged Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) for the Games and a memorandum of understanding is expected to be signed between the public sector unit behemoth and the organising committee shortly.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith stressed that Jacques Kallis, with all the experience behind him, holds the key to his team's fortunes in the World Cup.
We invited readers to send in their interesting summer snapshots. Here are some more responses -- and you can share yours too!
Nazriya Nazim opted out of the film as she is busy with her wedding preprations with Fahadh Faasil.
'Let us just say that Tendulkar is the Bradman of today - less hypnotic but scarcely less phenomenal,' says cricket writer John Woodcock, who reckons the Indian icon has every chance of scoring his 50th Test century this week.
Oil regulator PNGRB has approved the tariff that billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned East-West pipeline will charge for transporting gas from fields off the east coast to users.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Here are some of the best images clicked across the globe in the month of August.
Helmand, along with neighbouring Kandahar, are one of the most unstable regions of Afghanistan, where Taliban-linked insurgents have been fighting the Kabul government and international forces for almost nine years.
Last month, India's AlcoBev industry pulled off a successful two-day showcase exhibition at the Hotel Renaissance in Powai. We got experts to show readers how they can create some mind-boggling cocktail concoctions, so watch and learn.
The police arrested two activists of the Islamist organisation Popular Front on Monday, in the case related to the chopping of the palm of a lecturer of the New Man college in Thodupuzha, Kerala. The arrested are Jaffer from Kothamangalam and Ashraf from Kalady.
Sharad Pawar had no objection to John Howard's nomination as ICC Vice President but the support for the former Australian Premier started diminishing in the last week which led to his rejection, former ICC chief David Morgan said on Friday.
Interested in a career in television? We take a look at the career opportunities in the medium and how you can make your big break.
We are looking at different excise duties for products which are labeled energy efficient. So, products which are more energy efficient will pay lower excise, says Ajay Mathur.
The government cannot exercise its sovereign rights twice over.
The government will make energy efficiency labels mandatory for four appliances, including refrigerators and florescent lamps, from January 7 next year. So far energy efficiency labelling for electric appliances was voluntary under the Standards & Labelling Program being run by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, the Power Ministry's nodal agency on energy conservation.
Stylish middle-order batsman VVS Laxman says his dream is to score a century at Lord's and help India win the match during the team's upcoming tour of England.
The civil work in T3 has been completed as per schedule on March 31 and extensive on-the-job trials of the facilities were being carried out by the airport operator involving over 10,000 personnel from all the service providers, including CISF, Immigration, Customs, airlines and other stakeholders.
The green building code, termed energy conservation building code, is likely to be mandatory for commercial buildings coming up in eight fast growing states in the next two years.
Kala Master, the creator of Tamil television's dance show Manada Mayilada talks about the show that just completed 150 weeks.
President of India Pratibha Patil will be conferring the Padma Awards to the selected recipients on March 31 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan -- a senior official from the president's office confirmed this.
We bring you an excerpt from 'The Fifty-50 Marriage: Return to Intimacy', the second in a series by psychiatrist and relationships counsellor Dr Vijay Nagaswami.
Manoj Bajpai talks about his successful performance in Raajneeti.
The squeaky horn that sounds like a swarm bees has raised quite a furore among football fanatics.
Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao on Thursday asked both the West Bengal and the Union governments to halt police action or risk harm to kidnapped police officer Attendranath Dutta.
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has been hospitalized for a respiratory issue, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said on Thursday.
The Mangalore police has picked up a key suspect in the 26 11 terror attacks at the Bajpe airport in Mangalore airport on Monday.
The actor and director will be working on a film titled Veeraparampare which celebrates Kannada culture.
The South Asian community in America has its share of idiosyncrasies. Two expats use humour to capture the Diaspora experience, discovers Matthew Schneeberger.
A Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) official said the government would soon make the punitive provisions of the Energy Conservation Act 2001 compulsory.
Many of the world's oldest diamonds have an incredible and, at times, bloodstained history.
Veera Shankar's Kannada film Anthoo Inthoo Preethi Banthu has some decent performances and good technical work.
Unlike his predecessor Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who took a tough line against separate Telangana, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah has no personal view on the bifurcation of his state and would like the Centre to find a lasting solution not a "temporary truce".
The market for energy efficiency products and services, and tradeable efficiency certificates - which India is going to launch - could be as large as Rs 74,000 crore.
Former BCCI president AC Muthiah on Thursday said board secretary N Srinivasan, who is also the owner of Chennai Super Kings, has no right to convene the IPL Governing Council meeting on April 26 as there is conflict of interest in his position.
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