Manish Narwal claimed the silver in the men's 10m air pistol (SH1) event at the Paris Paralympics on Friday.
Designer Narendra Kumar presents a plus size collection at the Lakme Fashion Week.
The US-based Indian lass was beaten by qualifier Andreja Klepac of Slovenia in the first round of the Wismilak International.
India's young shooters added five more medals to their kitty, including two gold on Friday taking the tally to 21 medals to remain at the top of the standings -- 13 gold, two silver and six bronze.
India's wild card entry went down fighting to Yaroslava Shvedova at the US $175,000 Sony Ericsson WTA Bangalore Open.
The US-based Indian was beaten by Germany's Greta Arn in the final singles qualifying round at the $175,000 Bell Challenge.
Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Shafali Verma, Meg Lanning and Harmanpreet Kaur were some of the big names retained by their respective franchises for the next edition of the Women's Premier League.
P V Sindhu survived a scare before beating unheralded compatriot Ira Sharma in three games to enter the women's singles quarter-finals at the Syed Modi International Super 300 badminton tournament.
The bank, however, did not disclose names of the candidates shortlisted for the post.
Fourth seed Sania Mirza entered the singles quarter-finals, but teammate Shikha Uberoi retired from the tennis event due to exhaustion.
Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi won their singles matches to enable India overpower Thailand 2-1 in the women's tennis team competition at the Asian Games.
The Indian women's tennis team took an unassailable 2-0 lead over Uzbekistan in the semi-finals at the Doha Asian Games on Wednesday.
Star batter Jemimah Rodrigues was on Thursday dropped from the 15-member Indian women's squad for the ICC ODI World Cup to be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3.
The cool-as-cucumber Indian broke her rival in the second game, but was immediately broken back. However, Shikha kept up the good show to demolish Fujiwara in the fourth and eighth games to take the set.
Shikha Uberoi went down to Meghann Shaughnessy of the US in the second round of the Pacific Life Open.
Karnataka emerged overall champions in the national Aquatics championships.
The Indian pair was beaten by Zi Yan and Jie Zheng in the quarter-finals at the Hyderabad Open.
Prakash Amritraj lost to Mardy Fish at the ATP event in Las Vegas while Uberoi lost to Maria Vento-Kabchi in Doha
Both lost in the qualification round of the Grand Slam tournament.
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She upset Saori Obata of Japan in the first round of the main draw at the US Open.
Reader Rudra Ghosh sent us this picture from Los Angeles.
Shikha Uberoi has been given a wild card entry to the Bangalore Open.
Shikha finished 41st in the qualifying rounds of the event with a timing of 1 minute, 7.82 seconds.
Shikha Uberoi went down to top seed Ekaterina Bychkova at the Tashkent Open.
The duo respectively picked their seventh and fifth medals from swimming at the National Games.
The Karnataka lass achieved the Olympic qualifying time while claiming the silver in the women's 50 metres freestyle at the Afro Asian games.
Private sector lender Axis Bank on Monday said its board has recommended the appointment of Shikha Sharma, currently chief of ICICI group's life insurance business, as its next managing director and CEO.
Indian shuttlers Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advanced to the women's doubles second round of the Swiss Open Super 300 with a straight game win over USA's Annie Xu and Kerry Xu in Basel.
It has sought the ITF's approval to field the US-born Indian.
The US-based Indian went down to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the third round of the qualifiers.
Ankita Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthy are the other two members of the team that will be coached by Enrico Piperno.
Axis Bank's chief talks of her stress-busters and brushes over the 'Chanda-Shikha' stories.
Shikha Sharma's contentious appointment as CEO of Axis Bank doesn't detract from her sound reputation in the financial world.
The Indian ace thrashed world no. 81 Morigami 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament.
In a career spanning over 29 years, Sharma has had a wide exposure across the entire spectrum of financial services and has held several leadership positions across various market-leading businesses, the bank said in a statement. Axis Bank is the third-largest private sector bank in India and its network spans across more than 840 offices and over 3,600 ATMs.
Despite being 90% handicapped, suffering from multiple ailments and dependent on a wheelchair, the former Delhi University professor has not been able to step out of the anda cell of the Nagpur Jail at all since his conviction.
Reader Amit Singhal sent us pictures of Isha Lakhani and Shikha Uberoi from Doha, Qatar.
Lanning has led DC from the front, scoring 308 runs from eight innings, while South African all-rounder Marizanne Kapp and Australian left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen are the highest wicket-takers for the side with 11 scalps each.
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