Korea's squad for the 12th hockey World Cup in New Delhi.
India-China ties have developed rapidly and the exchanges of high-level visits have forcefully promoted bilateral ties and cooperation for mutual benefit, said Pranab Mukherjee. He met his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi over the weekend in New York.
The Kerala phenomenon -- of little work, high growth -- is best explained by the capabilities approach to growth. The rest of India has always tended to ogle at Kerala and the mallus.
What can be expected from Pranab Mukherjee's visit to China? With full details of the agenda not open to the public, a clear picture may not be available at this juncture. It can be said, however, that a breakthrough on the boundary issue seems very unlikely, as the two sides appear to have failed so far in finalising a 'framework' for the settlement.
A tough road awaits veteran L Sarita Devi and rookie Manisha Moun as they open India's campaign at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, in New Delhi, on Friday.
Internet's second most popular search engine Yahoo! has said it was open to selling itself to Microsoft, but the software giant's chief executive Steven A Ballmer and his deal makers were not keen to negotiate and ultimately withdrew their proposal. Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo, second only to Google, for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in February, but the search engine felt it was worth more.
'An era of fiscal pessimism is setting in, which, if not countered intellectually, is going to have the same effect as export pessimism has had,' notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Yahoo Inc. chairman Terry Semel stepped down as chief executive on Monday
If the software giant gets tired of chasing Yahoo!, there are plenty of other ways it can spend $40 billion.
He became the first Indian pugilist to qualify for next year's Beijing Olympics after he defeated European silver medallist Shahin Imranov to advance to the quarter-finals of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago.
India and China have established a Working Group to prepare a framework for the settlement of their vexed boundary issue, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced at Harbin in China on Thursday. The 11th round of talks between the Special Representatives of India and China was successful and they have decided to set up a Working Group to prepare a framework for the resolution of the boundary issue, said Mukherjee.
China is ready to "explore cooperation with all countries for the peaceful use of nuclear energy in accordance with the rules of the IAEA," said Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.
The layoffs would mark the most aggressive step yet by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who began a reorganisation to revive the company's fortunes after taking over from movie studio mogul Terry Semel in June 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday.
Sandeep Chaudhary claimed the top honours with a best throw of 60.01m, which he managed in his third attempt.
Other issues discussed included cooperation for the success of the India-China Tourism Year and Youth exchanges.
15-year-old Bernard Tomic became the youngest junior Grand Slam champion when he won the Australian Open on Sunday.
Posco-India, which has proposed to set up a Rs 52,000 crore (Rs 520 billion) steel project in Orissa, awarded annual scholarships of $500 to 35 students from three leading universities in Orissa.
Lakra, who has earned a berth for Beijing Olympics, lost 6-17 to Asian bronze medallist Yang Li in the feather weight category at the University of Chicago's UIC Pavillion on Friday.
Shokeen conceded his second round match to Chinese Taipei's Tsung-Hua Yang, while Kannan went down fighting to Brazil's Guilherme Ochiai in the ITF Futures tournament in Dehradun.
'While it is wonderful to have events like the upcoming PanIIT 2006 in Mumbai, the focus at these events should be less on rah-rah backslapping and more on identifying the shortcomings of the IITs and the Indian educational system.'
Reader Vidhi Daryanani sent us a picture of Dravid from Mumbai.
China thumped minnows Thailand 13-0 while Bangladesh overcame Sri Lanka 3-2 at the Asia Cup.
Defending champions China easily beat hosts Indonesia 3-0 to win its sixth straight Uber Cup title on Saturday.
Chinese weightlifter Zhou Lulu set a clean and jerk World record of 192 kilograms to win gold in the women's +75kg category at the Asian Games on Friday. Zhou added 2kg to Russian Tatiana Kashirna's previous mark, set last year in Poland.
Delhi-lad Yuki Bhambri set up a second-round clash with top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan after an easy first-round victory at the ITF tournament in Delhi.
To make a date fun and novel, ideally you must choose a partner from another generation, says Solene Paillet.
However, there will be no bilateral meetings between Swaraj, Sitharaman with their Pakistani counterparts.
From Hurricane Dorian to Hong Kong protests to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega event in Houston, Texas, United States -- these are the big moments that shaped the month of September.
The Indian boxers' campaign in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers was off to a disappointing start with all three in action, on Saturday, including former Commonwealth Games champion Manoj Kumar (64kg), bowing out with opening round losses in Qian'an, China.
We have seen great strides in all-around cooperation, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at airports across the US to protest the ban announced by President Donald Trump on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, extending solidarity to those affected as chaos and fear gripped individuals trying to enter the country.
Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
Top seed Karan Rastogi defeated Aditya Madkekar 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 to enter the last four.
The Indian ace was beaten in the men's singles semi-finals of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
Two swimmers made the biggest waves in Rio, Michael Phelps racing to retirement as the greatest of all time and US team mate Ryan Lochte slipping out of the country before police could stop him.
India and China decided to seek a fair and rational solution to their border dispute on Saturday as they focused on the proposed border defence cooperation agreement to avert incursions like the one witnessed in Leh region last month.
Celebrated boxer M C Mary Kom will aim for a historic sixth gold at the AIBA Women' World Championships, the build up of which has been marred by a row over lone Kosovan boxer's participation and poor quality air in the national capital.
Sania Mirza returned to the court to save India from demotion as India beat Hong Kong 2-1 in the Federation Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I relegation play-off on Saturday.
China's stand on the Indo-US nuclear agreement could be crucial as there should be 'consensus' within the NSG members to amend its rules to pave the way for the implementation of the deal.
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