Showing great mobility, the towering Czech neutralised the potentially tricky world number 25 in a sometimes tetchy two-hour contest on Margaret Court Arena.
A day before the start of the Budget session of Parliament, as many as 18 opposition parties, led by the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Shiv Sena and the Trinamool Congress, decided on Thursday to boycott the President's address to the joint sitting of both Houses in solidarity with the farmers protesting against the new farm laws.
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There are already indications that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Harper to be India's chief guest at the forthcoming Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on January 26. Of course, it depends that Harper's government would be re-elected in October 14 federal vote.
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'There are many among us who will feel content and proud if occasion rises for us to hear his name on a flight announcement,' says Nikita Puri.
American fourth seed Andy Roddick and fifth seeded Gael Monfils of France reached the second round of the Qatar Open with easy wins in Doha on Monday. Roddick beat Spaniard Ivan Navarro 6-1, 6-3 in a little over an hour while Monfils outplayed Czech Republic's Jan Hernych in a 6-2, 6-2 victory.
'Keeping its financial interests in mind, China wants no enmity with the Nepalese government.'
The agreement provides a 58-42 allocation for proportional and direct election systems for the 601-seat constituent assembly
French Open champion Stan Wawrinka feels completely comfortable about his failure to break into the unofficial big four of men's tennis despite winning two grand slam titles.
Opposition parties on Thursday launched a vociferous attack on the Centre over its handling of the farmers' agitation, callings its dialogues with the protestors 'monologues', even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party defended the new laws asserting that its government is committed to the welfare of peasants and increase their incomes.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna notched up contrasting victories in their respective doubles matches to reach the round of 16 at the US Open in New York on Saturday.
This was Apurvi's second ISSF World Cup gold of the year followed by a world record score in New Delhi in February.
All India Football Federation president Praful Patel was elected on Saturday as a FIFA Council member. He is the first Indian to make it to the prestigious panel.
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The fourth seed from the Czech Republic beat Marcos Baghdatis 7-5, 6-4 in the final.
The rupee had recovered from its 29-month lows by rising 39 paise to close at 67.63 on Friday.
Germany's federal cartel office on Tuesday launched an investigation into the German football association's (DFB) sale of tickets for the national team's matches at Euro 2016.
The Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal, who went ahead with the plans to hold a Republic Day reception at the same hotel after the blasts, said that the Pakistan government has not spoken to Indian officials on the incident.
The Indo-Czech duo lost lost 3-6, 5-7 to top seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi in Monte Carlo Masters semi-final
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It is time the current leaders who swear by 'cultural nationalism', that is religion neutral, assert that Bharatiyata is at the core of our nationalism and India was never a 'Hindu Rashtra', argues Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'There's nothing in the 2019 campaign air, the chunavi hawa that tells you it's a wave election, for anyone,' argues Shekhar Gupta.
When record Olympic champion Michael Phelps and the king of sprinting Usain Bolt resume their hunt for world records and gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month they will not be the only big stories in town.
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'India resembles not just the more turbulent bits of its own past, but other 'managed' democracies, where all institutional strength and independence have been hollowed out to serve political power,' notes Mihir S Sharma.
Mariano Hood tested positive for a masking agent, finasteride, after a men's doubles match at the French Open on May 31, 2005.
Dark clouds and drizzle were just what Britain's Joseph Clarke needed to make him feel at home and win gold on the frothy whitewater of Rio's K-1 slalom course on Wednesday.
Neeraj is currently ranked fourth in the new rankings of the international federation.
Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka won a battle of former girls' champions at the Australian Open by easing past Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to advance to the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
World number one Serena Williams survived a mid-match meltdown to beat Czech Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-2 to win the French Open on Saturday, her 20th Grand Slam singles trophy.
The bout will take place in western France on Saturday after the 24-year-old met with Frenchman Mahyar Monshipour, an Iranian-born former super bantamweight world champion.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic began his Paris Masters title defence with a routine 6-3, 6-4 win over German Philipp Kohlschreiber in the second round on Tuesday.
Second seed Hewitt survived an enterprising challenge from Czech Lukas Dlouhy while Haas edged past 147th-ranked Irakli Labadze at the Thailand Open.
They were beaten 6-2 4-6 2-6 by the Argentinean pair of Juan Ignacio Chela and Gaston Gaudio.
'But thereafter the same trend is again getting popular and that is what is disturbing and alarming.' 'If this practice goes unchecked, then the entire edifice of the rule of law which gives protection to citizens of this country would crumble into pieces.'
India said on Monday it would pay bilateral debt worth Rs 74.91 billion ($1.59 billion) to more than a dozen countries ahead of schedule in the current financial year to March 2004.\n\n\n\n
