The London Olympics bronze medallist beat world No. 73 Brazilian Vicente Lohaynny 21-17, 21-17 in 39 minutes, while Sindhu, a two-time World Championships bronze winner, had things her way against Laura Sarosi of Hungary, winning 21-8, 21-9 in 27 minutes.
Australian High Commission in New Delhi said that whether the attack was 'racially-based' or not will be investigated.
The Satyam Computer board plans to invite bids for a strategic investor in the next few days and expects to garner a healthy amount as investment, company chairman Kiran Karnik said on Monday.
P V Sindhu hoped to regain peak fitness before the start of individual events and assured India will return with multiple medals.
NSA Doval is set to travel to Beijing this week to attend the BRICS NSAs meeting scheduled to be held from July 27-28
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
India's No 1 shuttler Saina Nehwal has been seeded fifth and compatriot P V Sindhu ninth in the women's singles at the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the men's draw, Kidambi Srikanth, who is ranked world No 11, is seeded ninth.
We bring you *that story*, and a lot more, in this fascinating excerpt from Roshmila Bhattacharya's Matinee Men: A Journey Through Bollywood.
General Zhao Zongqi is well known in India for having commanded the Chinese troops during the Dokalam episode. Zhao knows every inch and corner of the Indian border, at least the Eastern and Central sectors, including the Naku La area which witnessed fist-fights between Indian and Chinese troops in April/May. Claude Arpi introduces us to the PLA generals masterminding the Chinese aggression in Ladakh.
The Indian government has received sensitive information from its German counterpart regarding tax evaders, who have channelled money in a tax haven bank in Liechtenstein, a small European country known for hosting such banks, and it is unwilling to make these details public.
India went down 2-4 to China in the league match of the women's Asia Cup hockey tournament.
LTTE and the Tamil cause was a stepping stone that Vaiko used just as other Tamil leaders did. For his exertions, he was thrown out of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam where, he claims, he fell a victim to family politics: he came in the way of Karunanidhi's son Stalin's elevation.
The 16th round of India-China border talks will be held in Beijing on June 28 followed by the visit of Defence Minister A K Antony a week later as the two countries are set to resume top level contacts to build on the recent visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to New Delhi.
India were 11 for no loss when the umpires decided to abandon play. The match will continue on Saturday.
On his second day of the visit, Modi visited the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, an urban locality situated at a distance of around 65 km from Manila -- the capital of the Philippines -- and then visited the Mahaveer Philippine Foundation, that provides free Indian-made prosthesis 'Jaipur Foot' to needy amputees. Here are images from Modi's second day in the Philippines.
China has been trying to build lobbies of influence and mould public opinion in India since at least 2017, and large sums have been invested in the effort, reveals former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
During a felicitation function of World Championships medal-winning wrestlers by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi on Monday, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan mooted the idea of making wrestling the national sport, which received the backing of double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar.
Rafael Nadal will play for the Indian side in the second edition of the International Premier Tennis League.
Indian ace Saina Nehwal's ascent to the top of women's badminton was officially confirmed.
The government has sought data from the Reserve Bank of India to consider a proposal to enhance the investment limit for bank exposure to equity markets. This will be part of several measures to boost domestic institutional participation in the markets at a time when foreign institutional investors are exiting.
When Barack Obama lands in Delhi for the Republic Day celebrations, he will be taken along the city's prime esplanade in a vehicle fitted with a special night-vision system, tear gas cannons, steel wheels, a blood bank holding the president's blood type and its own oxygen supply. Obama's Cadillac limousine, or the 'Beast', as the US Secret Service likes to call it, will be used to ferry him during the course of his visit to India. Obama's, however, is not the only fortress on wheels that will trundle down Rajpath. Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels in a BMW 7-Series 760Li Security Edition Here is a comparison between Obama's Cadillac and Modi's BMW
M Damodaran, chairman and managing director of Industrial Bank of India was on Thursday appointed the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Both Goyal and Mallya had figured in Forbes' annual list of world's billionaires published earlier last month, where Mukesh and Anil Ambani were named as two richest in India. According to Forbes, Goyal's fortune is valued at $ 1.4 billion, while that of Mallya is $ 1.2 billion. Naresh Goyal and Vijay Mallya are both vying for dominance of Indian skies. The are the only Indian names on the list. It also includes the feud between Russia's Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov
A global value-added services (VAS) player, Buongiorno, has researched on the habits of browsers who surf the Internet on their cell phones. In India, analysts estimate that 20-25 per cent of mobile handsets can be used for Internet surfing. Embracers, for instance, are hooked on to the technology on mobile phones and battery power is their only limitation when it comes to being online. On the other hand, Pragmatists use mobile phones as tools to make their life easier.
Indian women shooters continued to disappoint at the Beijing Olympics as Anjali Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu failed to qualify for the 50m Rifle 3 position event on Thursday morning. Anjali finished a poor 32nd with a total score of 571 while Avneet placed 42nd of 43 competitors after scoring 552 in the qualifying round at the Beijing Shooting Range.
Modi said the initiatives taken by the East Asia Summit in disaster preparedness and response are truly commendable.
The celebrations in China will be second biggest in the world after India.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal, who regained the number one spot in international rankings, said it was a big achievement for her.
GSLV Mark-III will be India's most powerful launch vehicle built to lift the heaviest Indian communications satellites to space.
Indian shuttlers continued their impressive show with top stars P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth progressing to the semifinals of their respective events in the 21st Commonwealth Games' badminton competition, in Gold Coast, on Friday.
Hindi is being already taught at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University in Israel. Haifa University recently announced its plans to start a course in Hindi as well.
The Sino-Indian border agreement would help find a 'fair and reasonable' solution to the historic issue, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said.
Radford will be helming the pic from a script penned by Krishna Shan, reports Variety.
Policy rates are not likely to increase in 2008 but a cut in repo rate too is uncertain.
Sinimol Paulose and Chatholi Hamza won the women's and men's 1500 metres respectively at the Asian Indoor Games in Macau on Tuesday.
Hutchison holds a 52 percent stake in Hutchison Essar and the Ruias-promoted Essar group 33 percent, while the rest is held by Analjit Singh of Max India and Hutchison Essar CEO Asim Ghosh.
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