'If the almost literally heart-stopping Suez block has any positive outcome, it is to be hoped that it will accelerate the setting up of a fab (perhaps Taiwanese) in India,' asserts Rajeev Srinivasan.
Global Internet giant Google is eyeing Russia's new IT Park in St. Petersburg where it may set up operations employing as many as 3,000 workers.
Back from an injury-forced break, Russian tennis ace Dmitry Tursunov is looking to assemble the missing parts in his game.
The pair weathered a tough opening set to beat Safin and his compatriot 7-5, 6-3.
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won the doubles match 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 to help India to a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan.
Simon Greul, who knocked out Srichaphan, Hrbaty and Henman, fell to the fourth seed in Miami.
Nihal scored his third and final GM norm at the Abu Dhabi Masters that was held from August 7 to 15. He scored 5.5 points in nine rounds with four wins, three draws, and two losses.
The Indian ace scored his second straight victory in the Masters' section of 15th Abu Dhabi International Chess festival.
Former national champion Dibyendu Barua suffered his second defeat in the Parsvnath International Open chess tournament.
The top seeds scored a 3-0 whitewash of France to make the grade.
Andy Roddick scored a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Swiss qualifier Michael Lammer
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand sealed the Candidates tournament title with an effortless draw with Peter Svidler of Russia in the 14th and final round in Khanty Mansiysk.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with black against former World champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Candidates Chess tournament in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, on Friday.
German Marcel Kittel was once again a cut above as he claimed his fifth victory in this year's Tour de France, winning the 11th stage in emphatic style on Wednesday.
Rediff.com takes a look at some personalities who are likely to win the prize this year.
Substitute Dmitry Tursunov beat Andy Roddick in an epic five-set battle to seal a Russian victory over the United States.
Bob and Mike Bryan beat Mikhail Youzhny and Dmitry Tursunov in the doubles to enable the United States pull back 1-2 in their Davis Cup semi-final against Russia.
Both nations took 2-1 leads in their semi-finals with doubles victories.
The Indian GM took off with a lucky victory over Vitaly Tseshkovsky in the opening round of the Aeroflot International open.
Tommy Haas beat Russia's Dmitry Tursunov 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the Los Angeles Open.
Modi said the initiatives taken by the East Asia Summit in disaster preparedness and response are truly commendable.
The S-400 Triumf long-range air defence missile system has the capability to destroy incoming hostile aircraft, missiles and even drones at ranges of up to 400 km.
The result put the Indian Grandmaster in joint-third position after the seventh round in the Masters section of 14th Abu Dhabi chess festival.
The goal was Russia's first at Euro 2004. They went on to beat Greece 2-1.
The Tisco GM beat compatriot Pendyala Harikrishna in the sixth round of the Tata International Chess tournament.
Jharkhand's Pritam Singh beat the GM as unfancied players ruled the roost on second day of the Tata International chess championship.
The Tu-154 model plane, which belonged to the Russian defence ministry, crashed shortly after take-off from the southern city of Adler.
Marat Dhzumaev of Uzbekistan, Pendyala Harikrishna, Alexander Fominyh of Russia and R B Ramesh share the lead in the Parsvnath international.
The second seeds lost to the French pair of Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.
Dmitry Sautin, the great warrior of diving, is weary after winning a record seventh Olympic medal.
A top US intelligence official has said that there is a ''substantial potential'' for security threats against the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but the key concern for an attack centers on locations outside the main event areas.
The duo are a half point ahead of a pack of four after the eighth round in the Parsvnath chess tournament.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of doubles events at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Ahead of next month's annual Indo-Russia summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev who said India is a "close and valued" partner for his country.
The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed allegations from the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russian athletes were guilty of using banned performance-enhancing substances on a large-scale, saying the assertions were groundless.
The Indian ace was beaten by Dmitry Mazur of Uzbekistan in the second leg of the ITF tournament.\n\n
