Saina Nehwal says Tai Tzu-Ying's repertoire of shots and the ability to not restrict her game to a set pattern makes the World No 1 from Chinese Taipei a very difficult player to beat at the moment.
Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones is hoping to make a sporting comeback in women's professional basketball, the New York Times reported on Monday.
There is no harm in sexting, a new study has ruled.
An Indian man, who was working as a clerk at a convenience store in the US state of Florida, has been shot dead by a teenager in an apparent robbery attempt, the second such incident in just over a month.
Defensive errors were again a common occurrence in the Arsenal backline, but Fiorentina failed to take advantage.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that project managers can get much better performance from their team members by treating them with honesty, kindness, and respect.
Olympic and World Championship silver medallist P V Sindhu feels the experimental service law in badminton could have come at a better time.
The latest GOP sex scandal, however, has more immediate resonance for the Indian American community. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is among the biggest backers of Namrata 'Nikki' Randhawa Haley, the three-term Representative from Lexington who recently announced her intention to contest for Governor at the end of Sanford's term.
'Well, I think every year, in the last few years, has been better than the previous one'
The United States on Friday said that Pakistani leaders must take action against rapidly expanding Taliban militants who now pose an 'existential threat' to Islamabad. "I think that some of the leaders certainly understand that (threat posed by the Taliban), but it is important that they not only recognise it but take the appropriate actions to deal with it," United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates told reporters during his visit to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Ponzi king Bernard Madoff, who has been convicted of committing a fraud of $60 billion, is in danger of being beaten up by fellow inmates at a North Carolina federal prison, where he is currently imprisoned.
It turned out to be a disastrous day for Indian shuttlers at the Hong Kong Open as P V Sindhu, K Srikanth and Ajay Jayaram crashed out of the $ 350,000 Super Series event in the opening round, in Hong Kong, on Wednesday.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal advanced to the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Super Series Premier tournament with a comfortable straight-game win over local favourite Fitriani Fitriani in the women's singles event in Jakarta on Thursday.
Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps will not face prosecution over a photograph published in a British newspaper apparently showing him smoking marijuana at a party last year, a U.S. sheriff said on Monday.
The Indian won 21-7 21-7 in the summit clash that lasted just 38 minutes.
Michael Phelps won two and lost two races in the the Santa Clara International Grand Prix, his second competition since his return from a three-month suspension by USA Swimming following a photo of him using a marijuana pipe had made the rounds.
A dream All-England title may have slipped through her fingers, but Saina Nehwal insisted on taking the positives out of the prestigious badminton tournament, saying the consistency and overall improvement in her will help her to do well in the season ahead.
"We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion," Trump told a group of evangelical leaders, adding, "she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no -- there's nothing out there."
The US became the first country in the world to have more than one million cases of coronavirus. It accounts for nearly one-third of the 3.1 million cases globally.
On a day when top seed Sloane Stephens survived a scare before beating Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, Sakkari showcased supreme court coverage skills throughout her almost two-hour match against Bertens.
Donald Trump may have secured an upset win over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential race but she could still emerge as the candidate who received more popular votes, media reports said.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers comprising erstwhile and current co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans have circulated a letter among their colleagues expressing their strong support for the US-India civilian nuclear agreement and included in their 'Dear Colleague' letter a copy of the September 12 Washington Post editorial titled 'Yes for an Answer: Why Congress should expedite approval of the US-India nuclear accord."
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed to plug tax loopholes for 'freeloader corporations' shipping jobs abroad and correct 'wrong' policies of the Bush administration, which were making Americans 'pay the price'. She claimed that that it was the average American who was paying the price for what she termed the wrong-headed policies of the administration. She said plugging tax loopholes will stop freeloader corporations from avoiding $50bn taxes every year.
The world endured bushfires, drought, tsunamis and earthquakes in 2018.
"We will manufacture 100 HondaJets every year beginning in 2010. We will sell them in the US, European, Canadian and Mexican markets," Honda Motor Company general manager (overseas operations, Asia and Oceania) Satoshi Matsuzawa told PTI. Earlier in 2007, the company had announced an investment of $40 million for constructing the new headquarters and hangar, and another $20 million for equipment.
The online speculation was instigated by 'Fire and Fury' author Michael Wolff, who dropped hints on HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher' last week when he said he was "absolutely sure" Trump is having an affair -- just not sure enough to write about it in his book.
The biggest upset of the day was produced by Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi, who knocked out Olympic champion and last year's finalist Carolina Marin 21-12, 21-19, in a 48-minute clash.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has slammed US President Barack Obama for holding election rallies in support of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, describing him as campaigner-in-chief.
General Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force and also served as Iran's pointman on Iraq.
US President Barack Obama announced on Friday to withdrawal of all American forces from Iraq by the end of 2011 with its combat mission coming to an end by August 31, 2010.
Fresh from his victory over Hillary Clinton to clinch the Democratic party nomination to the White House, Obama said the country must invest in the research and innovation to create jobs and industries. Observing that America's challenges on economic front cannot be overcome by building 'protectionist walls', Obama said the country needs to focus on improving plight of the middle-class and investing in education.
A mental patient has been deported to India to face an uncertain future, although his case is still open to appeal in court, according to his family. Harvey Sachdev was 12 when he came to the United States with his family from Punjab. He was a valedictorian both at the Northeastern High School, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. But worsening schizophrenia made it difficult for Harvey.
Venus Williams's bid for a 50th WTA title ended when she fell to Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva in the Round of 16 at the Volvo Car Open on Thursday, while Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber breezed into the last eight.
Venus Williams avoided another early exit with a routine win over fellow American Alison Riske at the Volvo Car Open in South Carolina while Swiss second seed Belinda Bencic was ousted by Russian qualifier Elena Vesnina.
The president of Duke University in North Carolina Richard H Brodhead has announced that the university has established a fellowship in memory of slain Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato, 29, who was killed on January 18, 2008, in his off-campus apartment in what was described as a senseless, violent crime.
The 24-year-old was eliminated from American Idol.
Several police officers, including investigators, joined in the candlelight vigil as Mahato's friends related stories about him. Friends remembered him as a talented engineer and cook, and a person who was always ready to help his fellow students. On the occasion, Tod Laursen, the professor who recruited Mahato, said that nothing could have been more out of context than the violence that took him away.
Congressman Jim McDermott, who represents Washington state -- who incidentally voted against the enabling legislation also known as the Hyde Act two years ago -- said, "The likelihood of Congress taking up the nuclear issue again before the end of the year is, it will be very difficult."
'What has cemented the renewed bilateral commitment is the maturity of the relationship. This has been reflected at the highest levels, with you and President Obama driving the relationship, and at the citizen-to-citizen level.'
"I have tried to be a friend to India. But, as long as there is breath in me, I will never support the lifting of the Glenn amendment sanctions on India unless they abandon all nuclear ambitions."
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