Manika Batra and Mouma Das fought hard before going down against defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu to settle for a silver medal in the women's doubles, a first ever for India in the Commonwealth Games.
The Asian Games hammer throw bronze won by India's Manju Bala has been upgraded to silver after one of the two Chinese competitors who finished ahead of her in the women's final, returned positive for dope test.
Striker Sergio Aguero says he is eager to win back his place in ManchesterCity's starting line-up and it will be up to the Premier League club to decide whether to keep him once the season ends.
Chinese paddlers reasserted continental supremacy on Friday by defending both the men's and women's team titles on the fourth day of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships while Indian men finished a distant seventh in the Champions Division.
Three Indians-- Congress president Sonia Gandhi, ICICI Bank head Chanda Kochhar and PepsiCo chief executive Indra Nooyi--have been named among Asia's eight top power women by American broadcaster CNN.
We want to fight for that title and we are very excited to see the draw, says Ander Herrera
Former world number one Heena Sidhu missed out on qualifying for the final of women's 10-metre air pistol event by just one point on the concluding day of the ISSF World Cup in Munich on Wednesday. At the Olympic Shooting Centre, Heena finished 12th out of 104 shooters in the eventual standings but would have been pleased at having shot a higher score than 384 ahead of the all-important Rio Olympics. The eighth finalist from Serbia, who eventually won the gold, made it through with a score of 385 and had less inner 10s than Heena. Shweta Singh and Shri Nivetha Paramanantham, the other Indians in the event shot 378 and 377 to finish 47th and 52nd respectively. Serbia's Bobana Velickovic won the gold in the event, while Sonia Franquet of Spain bagged the silver and China's Mengxue Zhang won the bronze medal.
Notwithstanding recent recriminations, China on Wednesday said its relations with India were on a "very good term" and that the leaders of the two countries were committed to advance the ties in a "cooperative and mutually beneficial" manner.
Olympic hero Vijender Singh broke the bronze jinx and fetched one of India's two silvers at the two-day Champion of Champions invitational boxing tournament in Guangzhou, China on Tuesday.
China's ambassador Zhang Yan on Tuesday met Union Home Secretary GK Pillai in New Delhi, in the wake of various reports about Chinese troops violating the Line of Actual Control and transgressing into Indian territory in the northeast and in Ladakh.While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has downplayed these reports, China has made its displeasure clear at the way such reports have been highlighted in the Indian media.Yan discussed the issue of visas with Pillai.
'The world does not care about the tension on our border.' 'India has to emerge as a strong economic power.' 'Respect comes when the world sees a country with a direction and leadership that has a vision,' points out Ramesh Menon.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Coric, who had failed to win a match in his last two appearances in Beijing and Shenzhen, saved two break points at 3-3 in the second set and clinched the first four games of the decider to record his 32nd match win of the season.
But such was Pep Guardiola's team's domination of the Premier League last season that reinforcements hardly seemed necessary and the solitary addition of Riyad Mahrez makes an already potent attack even more fearsome.
Shen Duo was not even alive when the Atlanta Olympics took place, born the following year. Now a teenager, she is suddenly emerging as China's best chance to end their drought.
China on Wednesday strongly pitched for reform of global financial institutions and establishment of a new financial order with Beijing and New Delhi playing a greater role in the decision-making process of these bodies.
'Unlike the Chinese army that has been largely a peace time force, the Indian Army is a battle hardened force,' explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
China's Ding Ning has claimed a second women's singles world title by battling through an ankle injury that left her in a heap to beat compatriot Liu Shiwen 4-3 in the final.
David Beckham turns 40 on Saturday and the English football legend celebrated his milestone birthday in style.
South Korean Olympic archers will be hoping to avoid striking out in Rio after they announced plans to conduct open training sessions in a baseball dome to harden themselves for potentially hostile environments at the August 5 to 21 Games.
Karan Rastogi outplayed compatriot and National champion Ashutosh Singh to storm into the quarter-finals of the US $15,000 ITF men's tennis event in Taizhou, China, on Thursday. Rastogi tamed Singh 6-1, 6-2 in a second round match at the hard court event.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the media was playing up the reports of Chinese incursions across the border out of proportions.
China's former world number one Xie Xingfang announced on Friday that she will retire from badminton after next month's Chinese National Games.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal survived an early scare from Indonesia's Dinar Dyah Ayustine to book her place in the quarter-finals of the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament here on Thursday. After going down in the first game, the London Olympics bronze medallist rebounded strongly to register a 17-21, 21-18, 21-12 win over her Indonesian opponent in the women's singles clash that lasted about an hour.
Italian double winners Juventus claimed their third Super Cup title in four seasons as new signings Mario Mandzukic and Paulo Dybala struck in the second half to secure their 2-0 win over Lazio in Shanghai on Saturday.
The Slovakian eventually won 6-4, 6-1 but the match will be remembered for a ludicrous umpiring decision at a crucial stage of a tight opening set.
IMAGES from Day 7 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, on Saturday.
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event. Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have changed the Middle Kingdom forever had the Chinese Communist party not traveled on the route of martial law.
Champions Manchester City will expect to get back to winning ways at home to Newcastle United in a match which pits Pep Guardiola against his fellow Spaniard Rafa Benitez.
Wu Ashun became the first Chinese golfer to win a European Tour title on home soil.
China completed a clean sweep of all five titles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokahama on Tuesday, with world number ones Wang Hao and Zhang Yining claiming the men's and women's singles crowns. The Chinese team dominated the event -- held every two years -- for the third straight time, with all-Chinese finals in each discipline.
Polish fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska was the highest women's casualty at the Miami Open on Saturday, blown away for the second time this year by Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
World number one Novak Djokovic recovered from a first-set loss to overcome Germany's Mischa Zverev while Britain's Andy Murray swept past Belgium's David Goffin to reach the Shanghai Masters semi-finals on Friday.
Zhang Shuguang, head of the Ministry's Transport Bureau, said that the new Chinese trains could ferry passengers at the speeds reaching 350 kilometres per hour. Media persons had a sneak preview of the trains on a government-organized trip on Tuesday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The 16-year-old claimed the top honours in the men's 10m air pistol event at the season-opening ISSF World Cup.
"We are working (on it)... we will try our best" to resolve the issue through bilateral discussions, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan. Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan and Indian Commerce Secretary G K Pillai held talks in New Delhi on Thursday on the issue. Pillai informed Zhong that India would extend the safety standards on imported toys to all the countries, not just China. Even the domestic manufacturers would be subjected to the same standards.
Indian women's team had won a bronze medal at Incheon four years ago and Sindhu hoped they can change the colour of the medal this time when the multi-sport event gets underway on August 18.
'He still has to deal with party norms and traditions and has been careful to follow the order of seniority,' points out Claude Arpi.
"We two sides support free trade. . . this (easing of ban) is a very concrete sign to show that China and India like to work together to tackle the financial crisis and to achieve common development," Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan told reporters in New Delhi at a CII function.
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