Track and field athletes led India's gold rush on the third day of competitions at the 13th South Asian Games as the country added a whopping 29 medals to jump to the top of the medals tally, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
"Our relationship is so big that it is no longer a bilateral relationship. It has global dimensions," the report quoted Jaishankar as saying.
Set to make his Test debut against India, dashing Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has already chalked out his plans against spinners, and feels his brief experience of playing in Indian conditions will hold him in good stead in the upcoming four-Test series.
Their title hopes dashed after the semi-final defeat, defending champions -- India would aim that they do not return empty-handed from the junior hockey Asia Cup and win at least a bronze when they take on South Korea in the play-off match, in Malacca, on Sunday.
The Bal Puraskar was conferred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who gave digital certificates to the awardees using blockchain technology developed by IIT Kanpur.
Indian openers Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal looked clueless against the Australian attack in both the innings.
'I have never seen such a large parade being commanded with such precision just by a vocal word of command.' 'I would like to import this technology to England.' Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd), then a final year cadet at the National Defence Academy remembers Queen Elizabeth II's visit to NDA in November 1983.
India's ninth consecutive ODI win also ensured they are now the top ranked team both in Tests and the One-day format.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has vowed never to visit India again after being denied a visa by its government.
He started off with a boundary off the first ball he faced in international T20 cricket and did not look back from that point. He glanced Jofra Archer fine on the leg side for his first four before pulling Sam Curran for another four in the next over.
Both former skipper Smith and Warner have agreed to turn out at the Australia nets to bat against the pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazzlewood and Pat Cummins to help them prepare face Virat Kohli and Co in the upcoming four-Test series.
'Just think of this innocent man who had to suffer so much.' 'Who will compensate for the physical and mental torture Kappan had to go through in the last two years though he has not done any crime?'
Virender Sehwag slammed a quickfire century and the pacers followed it up with a good showing with the ball to help India crush New Zealand by 105 runs and storm into the tri-series final in Dambulla, on Wednesday. New Zealand were bowled out for a paltry 118 in 30.1 overs in reply to India's 223 all out in 46.3 overs.
India's hopes of qualifying for the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament were dashed after they suffered their third defeat in the event, losing 0-2 to defending champions New Zealand in their penultimate round-robin match in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Thursday.
India is on a high after four straight victories, but Yuvraj Singh's injury is a worrying factor as they go into Friday's World T20 semi-final against South Africa.
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The 'big-four' of India's batting department need to fire in unison to fish the team out of troubled waters if the visitors want to make a comeback in the third cricket Test against Australia, starting Friday at Perth, feels Yuvraj Singh.
The country opened its airspace for all flights except for New Delhi, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur on March 27.
India's worst tour of Australia in the last 45 years ended on Friday when their faint hopes of qualifying for the tri-series finals were dashed with Sri Lanka pulling off a nail-biting nine-run victory over Australia in the last league in Melbourne.
Virender Sehwag is not concerned of the injuries and dip in form to some of India's key players ahead of World Cup and feels that his side are primed to win the title in front of their home fans.
Despite his achievements with the bat, Virat Kohli has failed to achieve the success he craves as captain.
His cricket career hampered by injuries, dashing Australian pacer Brett Lee is working on his future as a musician and India would be the first stop for his rockstar ambitions.
Faced with a do-or-die situation to stay afloat in the five-match series, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori said his injury-hit side was hoping that dashing batsman Brendon McCullum would be available on Saturday to bolster the batting line-up in the third ODI against India in Vadodara.
Indian women's cricket team paid the price for a poor batting display against arch-rivals Pakistan, losing the crucial group league fixture by two runs via Duckworth-Lewis method in the ICC World T20, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
India dished out a dominating performance to crush New Zealand by 90 runs as spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal yet again tormented the home batsmen.
While India's rivalry with Pakistan is historic, the one against Bangladesh has been a bitter one post the controversial 2015 World Cup quarter-final at Melbourne.
India successfully testfired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile Prithvi-II from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, about 15 km from Balasore off the Orissa coast, on Friday.
Already assured of a place in the summit clash, favourites India had to sweat it out before defeating Poland 4-2 in the final round-robin match of the men's hockey Olympic Qualification tournament, in New Delhi on Friday.
'Have ghee with rice, roti or dal, and remember to enjoy and cherish its impact on your life and the life of your child.'
'No team has a lower attacking shot percentage than #IND'. Who would have imagined India would be sitting even below Namibia in the points table?
Spin's rather old-fashioned and vanilla depiction of the Indian American way is a bit of a bummer, feels Sukanya Verma.
India's hopes of a singles entry in the main draw at the French Open were dashed when Saketh Myneni was knocked out in the qualifiers by Frances Tiafoe of the United States, in Paris, on Wednesday.
Pakistani editors and analysts believe that India's stickiness to the sole issue of Mumbai attacks led to the failure of the talks.
Swashbuckling England batsman Dawid Malan says he is committed to play for Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League starting in the UAE on September 19 and will think later about the T20 World Cup and the Ashes.
India overcame a two-goal deficit to eke out a 3-2 win over Argentina and finish with the bronze medal in the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Salta, Argentina.
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Rohit Sharma smashed his fourth century of the World Cup as India beat Bangladesh by 28 runs to qualify for the semi-finals and eliminate their neighbours in the process.
Murali Vijay (104) smashed a splendid century and shared a 155-run opening stand with Shikhar Dhawan (68) as India Red trounced India Green by eight wickets to book a berth in the final of the NKP Salve Challenger tournament in Nagpur on Friday.
The country's dash to a $3-trillion market cap is more a case of teamwork, than a few members doing most of the heavy lifting. Sample this: The share of top 100 companies to India's total market cap (BSE-listed companies' m-cap) is 67.3 per cent currently, less than what it has been when the nation hit previous milestones, such as $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion in 2007 or $2.5 trillion more recently in December 2020. In 2007, when India's m-cap topped the $1-trillion mark for the first time, the top 100 companies accounted for three-fourths of the total m-cap; at $1.5 trillion, the share was almost 80 per cent.
Triple jumper Renjith Maheswary won a silver to swell India's medal tally to five on the third day of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha on Sunday.
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