The two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma, who underwent a successful complicated surgery to separate her from a conjoined parasitic twin at a superspeciality hospital about 10 weeks ago, was discharged on Saturday.
The latest updates from the Telugu film industry.
Maintaining her rich vein of form in the current season, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black bagged the women's doubles title at the WTA Toray Pacific Open with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Spain's Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro.
Three Indians, including top seed Rohan Bopanna, stormed into the singles semifinals of the $ 10,000 India F5 Futures ITF Men's Circuit being played at the CLTA Stadium in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Two days after separating two-year-old girl Lakshmi from her parasitic conjoined twin in a complex surgery, doctors on Friday took her off from ventilator, achieving yet another milestone in her path to recovery.
They wanted to build a temple for her. Lakshmi, who was born recently at Araria village in Bihar, was treated as a goddess thanks to the fact that she has two bodies united at the pelvis.
World No. 16 Marco Cecchinato will spearhead Italy's challenge, while they also have the experienced world No. 37 Andreas Seppi as they look to continue their good record against India.
Narsingh Yadav's chances of making it to the Olympics will be known on Thursday. The National Anti-Doping Agency's disciplinary panel adjourned its hearing on the dope scandal surrounding the wrestler on Wednesday evening, even as he failed a second dope test and lodged a police complaint against two fellow-grapplers.
Leander Paes will kickstart his US Open campaign with Czech partner Radek Stepanek against Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia.
J Vishnu Vardhan and Rushmi Chakravarthy won the men's and women's titles respectively at the National Grasscourt Championship.
Leading steel producers offered to reduce prices of hot rolled coils by Rs 4,000 a tonne, as part of their efforts to ease inflation. Steel prices have risen by a whopping 49 per cent during the past one year triggering concerns that soaring prices of the metal were augmenting inflationary pressures on the economy. Indian Steel Alliance was dissolved it amid fears that the industry was indulging in cartelisation. ISA had been campaigning against imposing export duty.
At least 41 Indians are among 57 foreigners killed in Nepal in the powerful earthquake that left a trail of devastation and suffering, flattening buildings and uprooting electric poles and trees.
Rohan Bopanna secured a direct entry into the men's doubles at the Rio Olympics after officially returning to the top-10 in the ATP men's doubles rankings on Monday.
Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad set up a final clash against each other in the $ 10,000 ITF event after winning their respective singles semi-finals in Chandigarh on Friday.
Indian youngsters Vivek Shokeen and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya advanced to the second round of the ITF event in Lahore.
Vivek Shokeen wasted two match points as he crashed out of the $ 15000 ITF Futures tournament while Navdeep Singh stretched his run to the quarterfinals at DLTA Complex in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Posco's mega steel plant in Orissa is inching forward with the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests clearing a proposal under which Posco will plant trees on an area equivalent in size to the forest land where the project is coming up.
The Bench did not give any interim direction when the Additional Solicitor General sought permission from the court that till the matter comes up for hearing, the authorities be allowed to use their administrative discretion.
'I have done so much work after the Mahabharat, but people still remember me as Duryodhan.'
Phogat sisters will have to explain their absence for any chance of a comeback, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) said
Mattoo was murdered in January 1996 in Delhi.
Dr Sharan Patil and his team of doctors, who performed the marathon 27-hour surgery, said Lakshmi was given milk for the first time after the surgery. Doctors said Lakshmi was sleeping well and responding positively to the treatment.
The Sparsh Hospital, which had performed the complex and one of the rare surgeries free of cost, has created a separate Intensive Care Unit for the child and drafted a medical team exclusively to monitor her health condition round-the-clock.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
Seventh seed Vivek Shokeen defeated Taipei's Huai-En Chang 6-3, 6-4 while third seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya easily beat Nai-Zheng Yu of China 6-4, 6-1 in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF tournament in Lahore.
Thursday's match was just Venus Williams's seventh of the year and first since January's Australian Open, where she fell to Simona Halep in the round of 32.
Highlighting the inconsistency in the orders, senior advocate Amarendra Sharan, appearing for the state government, mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu and sought an urgent hearing.
The Patna high court on Monday dismissed a PIL challenging continuance of Manmohan Singh as prime minister.
Indian qualifier Sanam Singh brushed aside the challenge of Germany's Nils Langer even as Saketh Myneni failed to recreate the magic of last week as he bowed of the ATP Challenger event in Knoxville, USA.
Following his title win at the Traralgon Challenger event, Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri leapfrogged 73 places to 204 in the singles rankings on Monday even as Rohan Bopanna dropped out of the top-10 in the doubles chart.
Bopanna being the highest-ranked doubles player in the country is automatic choice for the doubles rubber.
The Russian shocked sixth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the final.
A top official from the national federation of a prominent Olympic sport asked if Batra would deem the competition good enough if shooting is brought back into the CWG fold.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
Wrestling Federation of India, on Friday, conceded that it was not being able to convince the Court of Arbitration for Sports' panel that grappler Narsingh Yadav was a victim of conspiracy and sabotage, and that was why he lost the case and was ejected from the Rio Olympics with a four-year ban.
Andreas Seppi experienced some early hiccups before getting past Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2 in the opening rubber, while 22-year-old Matteo Berrettini made a winning Davis Cup debut, cruising past India number one Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-4, 6-3.
India's No 1 singles player Somdev Devvarman on Monday jumped 18 places to become World No 78 in the latest ATP rankings. The tennis star had his Delhi Open triumph to thank.
He underwent the surgery for a rare movement disorder affecting guitarists.
Bach, IOC President, has been invited to visit India for a meeting with Prime Minister Modi.
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