Saina lost 9-21, 12-21 in the women's singles clash that lasted just 24 minutes
Sania ousted from Qatar Total Open.
A quick look at the winners of the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
Indian ace shuttler HS Prannoy produced a remarkable performance as he breezed past Malaysia's Joo Ven Soong to progress through to the second round of the China Masters here on Tuesday.
PV Sindhu had burst onto the scene when as a 16-year-old she had stunned London Olympics gold medallist Li in the quarterfinals of China Masters.
Avinash Sable's national mark headlines strong showing in IGP 2
India and China on Saturday held another round of military talks with a focus on taking forward the disengagement process in Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang in eastern Ladakh and bring down the tensions in the region, official sources said.
World champion Zhu Lin will not be able to defend her title in India this August after being left out of the China squad for the badminton World Championships, local media reported on Tuesday. Olympic silver medallist and former world champion Xie Xingfang will lead China's team for the women's singles, which also includes All England champion Wang Yihan, China's highest ranked player Wang Lin and Lu Lan.
Srikanth, now ranked five, was placed seventh before the Malaysia Open, where he lost his last-four clash to the reigning Asian champion Kento Momota.
News reports cited police as saying they suspected blast in the capital of Taipei had been caused by some kind of explosive in the train carriage.
The sixth seeded Indian ace beat seventh seed Chinese Lan Lu 25-23, 21-19 to set up a title clash with Chinese third-seed Lin Wang in Sunday's final. World number three Lin beat eighth-seed Xingfang Xie 21-19, 21-13 in the other semi-final.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya became only the second Indian wrestler to win a silver medal at the Olympics after losing in the men's Freestyle 57kg title round 4-7 to reigning World champion Zavur Uguev, in Chiba, Japan, on Thursday.
Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra became the first Indian pairing to qualify for the mega event in Tokyo, beating World No. 8 duo of Sang-Su Lee and Jihee Jeon 4-2 in the final of the Asian Qualification Tournament in Doha.
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.
B Sai Praneeth went down fighting to second seed Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in the men's singles semi-finals of the New Zealand Open badminton in Auckland on Saturday.
At least four people were killed Saturday morning when a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit Taiwan.
India's women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa crashed out of the Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold on Thursday after suffering a straight-game defeat against the Malaysian pair of Hui Ern Ng and Hui Lin Ng in the second round in Saarbrucken, Germany.
Bhaker shot 244.7 to claim the top prize in the prestigious season-ending tournament
Valentino Rossi will decide this year whether to call time on his stellar MotoGP career after Yamaha announced on Wednesday the signing of French youngster Fabio Quartararo as the Italian great's replacement from 2021. Quartararo, 20, will remain with the Petronas Yamaha non-works team for one more season before stepping up alongside Spaniard Maverick Vinales, whose contract was extended on Tuesday, at the factory outfit.
Sania is returning to the circuit after a two-year break but injured her leg in practice.
The plane went missing between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon.
China's largest steel producer, Shanghai Baosteel, has set its eyes on Baotou Iron & Steel Group after global steel baron, Lakshmi Mittal's bid for a 50 per cent stake in the Chinese company faltered.
Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal's demand for a 50 per cent stake in China's Baotou Iron and Steel Group has led to collapse of talks for a joint venture as Beijing will not allow foreign steel giants to take a controlling stake.
India's leading badminton player Saina Nehwal has dropped four places to be No 9 in the latest world rankings while P V Sindhu remains No 10 despite winning a silver medal in the Rio Olympics.
The meeting will take place in Chushul sector on the Indian side of Line of Actual Control.
Trump had accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorists.
The 78th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. A quick look at the winners.
Director Justin Lin injects his Fast and Furious vigour to the series, says Sukanya Verma.
The Indian ace was beaten by Lin Dan of China in the semi-finals of the Yonex Open badminton tournament.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held two-back-to-back meetings with top military brass on Tuesday deliberating on the situation in eastern Ladakh after an Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed in a violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley.
Indonesian Taufik Hidayat pulled off one of the shocks of the Asian Games badminton competition, beating world number two Lee Chong Wei in the men's singles final.
India have won 12 out of 14 gold medals so far
'India knows very well that China will not be at a disadvantage in any China-India military operations along the border area'
While Saina made short work of USA's Beiwan Zhang, second seed Sindhu had to dig deep to get the better of Japanese Sayaka Sato.
Indian paddler G Sathiyan has qualified for his maiden Summer Games with a comfortable 4-0 win over Pakistan's Muhammad Rameez in the Asian Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Doha.
'We actually have a big vacuum in terms of producing coaches of quality and it's not a training program. It's an ecosystem issue. So, we need to work harder to bridge that gap'
The world's richest man and the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos bonded with Bollywood at a grand party thrown in his honour.
Gen Naravane reviewed the overall security situation in the region with Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Yogesh Kumar Joshi, commander of the 14 Corps Lt Gen Harinder Singh and other senior Army officials.
The visit comes a week after 20 Indian Army personnel were killed in a brutal assault by the Chinese military in Galwan Valley which escalated the border tension.
The Indian ace was a stroke ahead of local favourite Wen-hong after the third round in the Mercuries Taiwan Masters.
