Adil Khan ensured that India at least secure a point from the home match
Sania Mirza pulled out of the doubles event at the Qatar Open on Tuesday with a calf injury.
The former India football captain said the onus is on the strikers to deliver against Bangladesh on October 15 in Kolkata.
Former champion Stan Wawrinka battled past Russian fourth seed Daniil Medvedev in five sets to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals with a 6-2, 2-6, 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-2 victory. Fifth seed Dominic Thiem kept his flawless record against Gael Monfils intact with a trouble-free 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 victory on Monday to reach his maiden Australian Open quarter-final.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
India unnerved a technically superior Qatar by taking the early lead but were eventually outplayed 1-3 in Doha in their second round qualifying football match for the 2012 Olympics.
India will seek inspiration from their impressive show against Qatar in the Asian Games last year when they face the same opponents in the Olympic football qualifiers second round match in Doha on Sunday.
The team drew with Kazakhstan in the final round to log 22.5 points in the nine-round Swiss league and emerge runaway winners.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The fourth seeds beat Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Flavio Cipolla 6-4, 6-1 in the first round.
A composed Jyoti Randhawa kicked off his campaign with an opening round of two-under 70 to be tied 10th, even though his compatriots Shiv Kapur and Jeev Milkha Singh went over-par in the $ 2.5 million Qatar Masters in Doha on Thursday.
K Sasikiran, Koneru Humpy and P Harikrishna beat Iran 2.5-0.5 in the seventh round to maintain a huge lead over their nearest rivals in the mixed team's classical swiss event.
India had 2.5 points lead over Qatar at the end of the fifth round, but now they increased the lead to 4.5 points.
Jaspal Rana equalled the world record in the men's 25m centre fire pistol event by aggregating 590 points at the 15th Asian Games.
The 19-year-old Indian Grandmaster earned India its first gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's rapid tournament.
India has been placed in Group D along with Iran, Hong Kong and the Maldives for the football\ncompetition at the Doha Asian Games, later this year.
Afghanistan will remain a frontline state for Washington for a foreseeable future in terms of the potential threats to US national security from terrorist groups, asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who played a stellar role in beginning India's dealings in Afghanistan in 1994.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and new woman national champion Poulomi Ghatak were among four Indian paddlers who have qualified for the main draw of Pro Tour Qatar Open in Doha.
SSP Chowrasia fired four birdies on the back nine as he recovered from an early triple bogey to finish tied 47th after carding two-under 70 in the final round of the Qatar Masters, in Doha, on Sunday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Roger Federer beat Tommy Haas 6-1, 6-3 in the fourth round in Miami.
Shiv Kapur and Jeev Milkha Singh finished in a tie for 38th place even as Branden Grace produced a stunning eagle on 16th and a closing birdie to grab the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters golf tournament on Saturday.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis survived a scare before pulling off a three-set win over the Chinese pair of Yi-Fan Xu and Saisai Zheng in the WTA Qatar Open to extend their unbeaten streak to 41 matches in Doha on Wednesday. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair toiled for one hour and 24 minutes to prevail 6-4 4-6 10-4 over the unseeded Chinese duo to enter the quarterfinals. They got a bye in the first round in the hard court USD 2,818,000 prize money tournament. Sania and Hingis have together won four titles this year out of an overall trophy count of 13. They started the year with wins in Brisbane and Sydney before completing a hat-trick of Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open. The duo had won the St Petersburg Ladies title earlier this month. Just before the tournament started, Sania took some time out to visit the DPS-Modern Indian School here and she interacted with the children.
Unseeded Indian Siddharth Suchude moved into the quarterfinals of the Rhode Island Open squash tournament in the US, beating Malaysia's Muhd Asyraf Azan in a tough five-game affair.
India began the year on 97 in FIFA rankings, but after two wins, four draws and seven losses, the country ended 2019 at 108
A struggling India escaped with a 1-1 draw against lower-ranked Bangladesh in their FIFA World Cup second round qualifying match in Kolkata.
Minister for Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath, who arrived in Washington had critical bilateral discussions with senior administration and Congressional leaders on issues related to WTO and bilateral issues.
An elbow injury may force the Indian tennis ace to pull out of the Qatar Open, which begins in Doha from February 27.
Brazil rounded off a very good pre-World Cup year with a lacklustre 2-0 win over Oman in a friendly on Tuesday to take their tally to 14 victories in 17 matches.
The 19-year-old Indian junior world record holder did not attempt his fifth and final throws due to the injury and his first round effort of 83.80m fetched him a seventh place finish in a strong eight-man field in Zurich on Thursday.
Champion Novak Djokovic wasted little time in advancing to the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday then just as effortlessy dismissed the pre-tournament favourite status of Britain's Andy Murray.
The Taliban have the ISIS in its crosshairs. The Taliban has shown the skill to assimilate extremist elements if they are reconcilable as well as the ruthlessness to eliminate troublemakers, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
The matches, to be played from Aug 30 to Oct 18, were called off until further notice.
"I practice chess based on what I think is a priority, and what I feel like doing. I also read some chess books -- 'Saying No to Chess Principles' by Evgeny Bareev and 'Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"
As the curtains fall on another year, Rediff.com brings you all the action from the sports field that defined 2019.
Commonwealth Games silver-medallist Mandeep Jangra took just over a minute to force his rival out of the contest with a bloodied face and book a pre-quarterfinal berth in the Asian Boxing Championships in Bangkok.
American sprinter Justin Gatlin won this third successive Rome Golden Gala 100 metres.
Blaming the developed world's "serious gap of attitude" as the reason behind failed talks, India has said that it is still optimistic about Doha Development round concluding positively.
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Mbappe and Benzema inspire France to 2-0 win against Finland
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