Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu scored 500.6 points and 500.2 respectively to equal the Commonwealth Games' record.
Oil companies from India and China are seeking stake in Russia's state-owned oil major Rosneft but no concrete deals have been struck so far, Russian Energy Minister Victor Khristenko said on Friday.
The Indian GM marched his way in to the second round of the World Chess Cup with a sweeping 2-0 win over Yu Shaoteng of China
Grandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban beat Brazilian Grandmaster Alexander Fier in the second round and advance to the third round of the chess World Cup in Tromso, Norway, on Thursday
The 22-year-old, who has won a bronze at the 2013 and 2014 editions, disposed off Sun Yu 21-14, 21-9 in 39 minutes at the Emirates Arena.
PV Sindhu survived a scare against Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi before prevailing 19-21, 23-21, 21-17 in a thrilling singles match that lasted an hour and 27 minutes.
Check out India's schedule on Day 9 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Friday.
On the eighth day of CWG 2018, the 22-year-old from Hyderabad made everything look so easy as she clinched a comfortable 21-15, 21-9 win over Wendy Chen in a one-sided last-16 clash of the women's singles event that lasted 34 minutes at the Carrara Sports Arena.
'I think it would be wise to do things ourselves rather than wait for the government to do something, because that might not happen'
India's badminton queen PV Sindhu revealed that working with new coach Kim Ji Hyun along with the guidance from Pullela Gopichand has been instrumental in taking her game to the next level.
Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi put India in the running for three gold medals at the Asian Games.
India's Manika Batra and Mouma Das lost 3-0 to Tianwei Feng and Mengyu Yu of Singapore in the women's sinlges final.
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu is just one step away from clinching her maiden Super Series Premier title having reached the final of the China Open after registering a come-from-behind win over Korea Sung Ji Hyun at the $700,000 tournament in Fuzhou, China, on Saturday.
Micromax will invest Rs 300 crore on constructing new factories
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.
The Australian government has granted a permanent visa to a 104-year-old Chinese woman at the centre of a decade-old immigration row.
Instead he is fielding youngsters Harsh Mankad and Prakash Amritraj in the Asia-Oceania group I Davis Cup tie against China.
After losing the first game, the 24-year-old Indian rebounded strongly to clinch a 15-21, 21-13, 21-13 win over Wan Ho in a gruelling second-round clash that lasted almost an hour.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
The ultrabook is a successor to the MateBook X.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
India's campaign at the China Masters Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament ended as P V Sindhu and H S Prannoy crashed out of the women's and men's singles after straight-game defeats in their respective quarter-finals, in Changzhou, on Friday.
The second singles between Prakash Amritraj and Wang Yu had to be called off for the day following repeated rain interruptions.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
Yunique not only delivers quality at a low price but at the same time steers ahead in the price war.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 websites shut down in China with the help of public tips since July, the ministry of public security said.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
Naomi Osaka is hogging the headlines for all the right reasons in her native land after she became the first Japanese player to reach a Grand Slam singles final, with one major newspaper hailing her as "a new heroine Japan can be proud of".
Output in the first half of the year was 101.59 million tonnes.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The two Indians have a half point lead over second placed S Vijayalakshmi in the Asian women's chess championship.
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Three first-half goals helped the World Cup winners overcome Nigeria for a place in the semi-finals in women's hockey tournament at the Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom remained on course for a fifth gold medal at the Asian Boxing Championships after she advanced to the final of the event on Tuesday.
The defending champion was held by seventh seed Zhao Xue of China in the World Junior chess championships.
Indian shuttlers endured a disappointing day at the China Open Super Series Premier with star player Saina Nehwal going down in the women's singles second round while Parupalli Kashyap crashed out of the men's singles competition in Shanghai.
Top seed R M V Gurusaidutt entered the men's singles semi-finals, but women's defending champion P C Thulasi and reigning National champion Sayali Gokhale were knocked out of the US $15,000 Tata Open India International Challenge Badminton tournament at the Cricket Club of India, in Mumbai, on Friday.
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