The five biggest spenders in 2018 were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which together accounted for 60 per cent of global military spending, it said.
Sunitha Rao and her French partner Aurelie Vedy went down fighting against top-seeded Chinese combination of Chun-Mei Ji and Sheng-Nan Sun in the doubles final of the $ 50,000 ITF women's event in New Delhi on Friday.
In 2019, the growth in sales of the Maggi brand of products surpassed the pre-ban level of 2014, in terms of both volume and value. While, Nestle raised prices of Maggi products by an average 3.1 per cent, its volume rose by 9.6 per cent year-on-year.
Indian shuttler Arvind Bhat entered the quarter-finals of the Dutch Open Badminton Championships, beating Sweden's Gabriel Ulldahl in straight games in a third round encounter on Thursday.
In a hard-hitting interview to rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa Sadananda Gowda says the BJP will not settle for anything other than power.
Making a comeback after a three-month injury lay-off, Saina Nehwal struggled to make an impression as she went down to Thailand's Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in the first round of the China Open Super Series.
India's campaign at the Sudirman Cup ended after they went down 0-3 against top seed and 10-time champions China in the quarter-finals of the mixed team championship in Gold Coast.
Young Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth continued his rampaging run in Kowloon and set up a semifinal clash with top seed Chinese Chen Long at the Hong Kong Super Series.
'Le Carré's spies were nothing like the exotic Kim of Kipling or the caricature that is James Bond.' 'Driven by a simple patriotism, held back by incompetence and politics, his characters use deceit and treachery to win their morally Pyrrhic victories,' notes P Rajendran.
Gaurav Nandrajog and Mandy Kennedy of England scored contrasting victories to win the men's and women's titles respectively in the HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
The company's milk powder has been declared unsafe by the Tamil Nadu Food Safety Wing
Rohan Gavaskar scored a patient 54 as Bengal took a 63-run first innings lead over Delhi on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match.
India's leading junior beat Australia's Jennifer Elie in the girls' singles at the Australian Open.
The final scoreline read 14 to 9 as as Asia won the biennial Dynasty Cup golf for the second year in a row
The Indian lifter is likely to be awarded the fourth place in the women's 48 kg weightlifting event following a positive drug test returned by Aye Khine Nan of Mayanmar.
The Russian seized an historic gold medal in the all-round competition at the gymnastics world championships
The Indian lad took sole lead after the sixth round in the under-12 section of the World Youth chess championships.
Niu Jianfeng and Guo Yue lost 4-2 to compatriots Wang Nan and Zhang Yining in the women's doubles table tennis semi-finals.
China has expelled four table-tennis players in accordance to an unwritten law in the country that bans romance while training.
Asia beat Japan in five of the six fourball matches in the Dynasty Cup.
Zhang Yining whipped North Korea's Kim Hyang-mi to win the women's table tennis final and give China its 100th gold medal since joining Olympic competition in 1984.
China's Wang Nan took her third gold medal, teaming up with Zhang Yining to beat Lee Eun-sil and Seok Eun-mi of South Korea 4-0 in the women's table tennis doubles.
The opening day in the Dynasty Cup golf ended in a 3-3 tie.
Kudos to Director Karthik Subbaraj for bringing back the Rajini of the 1990s, says A Ganesh Nadar.
In yet another blow for Nestle India, live larvae and worms have been found in their milk powder in Coimbatore.
India's number one singles player Prajnesh Gunneswaran beat Jay Clarke of Great Britain in straight sets to enter the main draw of the Miami Open, on Wednesday.
People who stay awake late are more likely to develop diabetes and metabolic syndrome than early risers, even when they get the same amount of sleep, according to a new study.
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.
Olympic silver-medallist P V Sindhu and Ajay Jayaram advanced to the quarter-finals after registering thrilling three-game wins over their respective opponents in the second round of the China Super Series Premier, in Fuzhou, on Thursday.
A look at the current contenders International Bank Note Society's Banknote of the Year
Experienced drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh returned to India's men's hockey team, which also features debutant Jaskaran Singh, for the tour of Australia, starting May 10.
It is ranked 7th on the list of world's top-10 consumer finance firms
Ten people, including the gunman were killed in in Dayton's Oregon district, while another 20 were shot dead at a crowded Walmart store in the southern border town of El Paso in Texas.
Defending champion Saina Nehwal and two-time World Championships bronze medallist P V Sindhu advanced to the quarter-finals, but it turned out to be a dismal day for star shuttlers Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei at the India Open Super Series in Delhi on Thursday.
World champion Chen Long avoided a potential first-round exit at the All-England Championships on Wednesday and blamed an uncomfortable pillow for a sluggish start to his campaign.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday.
China on Sunday commissioned the world's largest radio telescope which has a 4,450-panel reflector as large as 30 football pitches, boosting the global hunt for extraterrestrial life.
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