Lleyton Hewitt's run in the Monte Carlo Masters was halted by Germany's Rainer Schuettler.
Companies are sending representatives to Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and Odisha to persuade workers to join them.
Rediff.com takes a look at players who tested positive for use of banned substances over the years.
Brijmohan Lall Munjal, chairman of the Hero Group, has become the first Indian to be selected to the international panel of judges for the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year.
The new, apparently less lofty mountain range was found on the lower-left edge of Pluto's best known feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Region.
The Indian ace maintains a slender lead going into the final round in the Amber chess tournament.
The Indian grandmaster maintained his slender lead in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament with a clinical 1.5-0.5\n\nvictory over Zoltan Almasi.
The victory placed the Indian ace in joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
The India ace drew with Alexander Morozevich, winning the rapid tie but losing the blindfold, in the Amber tournament.
The Indian GM moved to joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
American twins Bob and Mike Bryan added another accolade to their lengthy resume after taking the Shanghai Masters men's doubles title on Sunday to become the first pair to win all nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments.
Melbourne man McNamara won five singles titles and 19 in doubles and teamed up with compatriot Paul McNamee to win the Australian Open doubles in 1979 and Wimbledon twice in 1980 and 1982.
The second seed was shocked by seventh seeded Argentinian Guillermo Coria in the quarter-finals of the French Open.
The image was obtained at a high phase angle -- that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons.
Although Schumacher won Sunday's Austrian GP for his third win in a row this season, McLaren's Raikkonen is still two points ahead of the Fereari ace.
The pair had to concede a walk-over at the Barcelona Open as Miryni too ill.
The Spanish ace says he's playing the best tennis of his life.
The 16-year-old wild card at the Monte Carlo Masters won 7-5, 6-3.
The victory gave the Indian ace the sole lead in the Amber chess tournament.
From bloody noses to sparks on the race track, Rediff.com has the best pictures from the last week snapped right here...
This was the biggest IPO in the Indian market since Infratel's.
It said it was not convinced with the grounds of the CBI to condone over 4,500 days' delay in filing the appeal. The CBI had filed the appeal on February 2 this year.
After lot of deliberation, the CBI this year got the nod from the NDA government to file an appeal in the apex court.
Banned Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki was "innocent" of a doping violation and the country's Davis Cup team supported him, World No 1 Novak Djokovic said on Tuesday.
'As long as people are eating we will be there,' Rebel Foods CEO Jaydeep Barman tells Viveat Susan Pinto and Niraj Bhatt.
Star Indian long jumper Anju Bobby George has officially become the gold medal winner of the World Athletics Final, held at Monte Carlo in 2005, after the International Association of Athletics Federation ratified the result of the meet.
Darryl D' Monte, the distinguished enviromental journalist, discusses how the media covers floods in Mumbai or Texas, but ignores Assam or Bangladesh.
Austria's Dominic Thiem strained every sinew trying to cling on to the 32-year-old Spaniard and at times even gained a precarious foothold in his first Grand Slam final.
World's most notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman bends over in the shower of his prison cell and never resurfaces
Daniil Medvedev and Karen Khachanov crushed second seed Dominic Thiem and third seed Alexander Zverev respectively to set up an all-Russian semi-final at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Friday.
The Briton, who was thrashed 6-3 6-1 by the Croatian in the Dubai Championships in 2015, performed poorly in the first set and after recovering in the second he then surrendered his serve in the seventh game, giving Coric three break points.
Serbia's former World No 12 Viktor Troicki has been handed an 18-month suspension by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after violating doping regulations.
Senior journalist Darryl D'Monte reports exclusively for Rediff.com from Paris.
German tennis legend Boris Becker has issued a stringing rebuke against second-ranked Andy Murray for saying that he has been suspicious of his opponents doping in the past and described his comments as "totally out of order".
Greek tyro Stefanos Tsitsipas' dream run at the Rogers Cup continued on Friday as the teenager toppled defending champion Alexander Zverev 3-6, 7-6(11), 6-4 to reach the semi-finals in Toronto.
