Check out how India's athletes fared on Day 5, Wednesday, July 31, 2024:
Organisers hope a high-tech opening ceremony on Saturday will help drum up excitement for the Games. Interest at home has been muted as the economy sputters and some question the cost of hosting the mega-event.
Crowd roar as Xi opens Hangzhou Asian Games
'Employees may well be expected to be on call at almost all times -- much like the standard Indian approach to the workday,' points out Mihir S Sharma.
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The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market.
More than 4,000 rescue workers are racing against time to find survivors amid rough weather conditions.
A cruise ship carrying over 450 people, mostly elderly, capsized because of a cyclone in the murky waters of Asia's longest Yangtze River in China's Hubei province as rescuers on Monday raced against time to find survivors with hundreds missing and at least five dead.
Sourabh Verma and Ajay Jayram also entered the second round
Saina, who has been battling illness and injuries, is going through a bad patch, having lost six times in the first round this season.
Grieving relatives of those on board the ill-fated cruise ship that capsized in the mighty Yangtze were on Thursday barred from reaching the site as rescuers pulled out more bodies, taking the death toll to 77 amid assurances from China of "no cover up" in the probe into the tragedy.
The death toll in the tragedy in the mighty Yangtze rose to 65 as rescuers retrieved another 39 bodies till morning.
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India and China on Friday agreed to set up a dedicated communication channel to boost security cooperation as Home Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with China's security czar on issues like cross border terrorism from Pakistan and the Afghan situation.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday.
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