Flavia Pennetta stunned Venus Williams with an impressive 6-4, 7-6 win to reach the Bangkok Open final.
Jaismine Lamboria registered a dominant victory over Ana Marija Milisic of Switzerland to enter the 57kg quarter-finals of the World Olympic Boxing Qualifier in Bangkok.
The national champion shocked 11th seed Chan Yan Kit of Hong Kong to advance to the second round of the men's singles in the Thailand Open badminton championships.
Sania Mirza lost 4-6, 4-6 Meghann Shaughnessy in the first round of the Bangkok Open.
Veteran karate coach and administrator Vispy Kapadia will guide a seven-member Indian team in the first Asian Martial Arts Games in Bangkok.
World Championship bronze medallist Mohammed Hussamuddin went down 0-4 against Ireland's Jude Gallagher.
Monday's timing will put India in the 21st place in the Road to Paris list of World Athletics while the aim was to be either in the 15th or 16th spot. India, thus, is in a difficult position to make the Paris cut.
Pankaj Advani has opted out of the Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship to concentrate on academics
The India-Bangkok sector is operated by carriers like Air India, Jet Airways, Thai Air, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airlines amongst others and travel companies say it constitutes more than 40 per cent of their business in the south east Asian market. Thousands of protestors have laid siege to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, the world's 18th largest in terms of passenger traffic, as their latest mark of protest against the elected government.
Europe's and Bangkok's loss is turning out to be gain for several other destinations like Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore.
One person was dead when Thai security forces and anti-government protestors called the 'Red-Shirts' clashed overnight in Bangkok on Friday, BBC reported.
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth opened his campaign at the Thailand Masters badminton tournament with a straight game win over Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei in Bangkok on Wednesday.
Thai Airways International has introduced a new flight between Bangkok and Chennai which will operate four times a week.
In a breakthrough, Thailand's prime minister announced on Tuesday that a second foreign national believed to be the main suspect in the country's worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that claimed 20 lives has been arrested near the Cambodian border.
Yaatris works neither as a comedy nor as a family drama.
Lakdawala was reportedly shot dead by members of the Chhota Shakeel gang.
In a sudden breakthrough, National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan held talks in Bangkok on Sunday on a wide gamut of bilateral ties including terrorism and Jammu and Kashmir, and agreed to take forward the "constructive" engagement.
Lakshya Chahar became the fourth Indian boxer to crash out in the opening round of the first World Olympic Boxing Qualifier.
The men's quartet of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Santosh Kumar, Mijo Chacko Kurian and Arokia Rajiv also failed to stand on top of the podium as they clocked 3:05.76 to finish second behind Sri Lanka (3:04.48). Vietnam was third with 3:07.37.
Thailand's top officials tried to calm its citizens on Wednesday over the triple explosions in Bangkok, with the defence minister saying they should not be construed as terror attacks, even as Israel and Iran traded charges over the incident. Thai police arrested two Iranian men in central Bangkok on Tuesday, when a bomb possibly being assembled by three Iranians went off in a house.
Shot putter Karanveer Singh will be pulled out of the Indian team for the Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok starting next week.
The Indian duo needed just 35 minutes to beat Lu Ming-Che and Tang Kai-Wei of Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals of the Super 500 tournament.
Investigators found that the aircraft, a Boeing 777-300ER, was flying at its cruise altitude of 37,000 ft south of Myanmar and near an area of developing storms in the afternoon when turbulence started to cause fluctuations between +0.44g and +1.57g for 19 seconds.
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A total of 40 stickers suspected to be part of an alleged terror plot by a group of Iranians have been found pasted along a route running close to a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok, nearly a week after the triple explosions rocked the Thai capital.
Singapore Airlines announces special Internet fares.
US Open finalists Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy stormed into the semi-finals of the Bangkok Open with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Tomas Berdych and Simone Bolelli on Friday. The will take on Fabrice Santoro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in the final.
Fugitive gangster and drug smuggler Santosh Shetty has been arrested in Bangkok by the Thailand police. Mumbai crime branch officials took him into custody on Thursday.
A suspected Iranian on Tuesday exploded three bombs in Bangkok blowing off both his legs and injuring four others, a day after Israeli embassy cars were targeted in Indian and Georgian capitals for which Israel blamed Tehran.
The 28-year-old man, who was not identified and was arrested from his rented apartment in Nong Chok district in a suburb in eastern Bangkok, was also found in possession of multiple passports.
Emergency has been declared in Thailans's capital Bangkok after anti-government protesters broke into the country's parliament building forcing top government officials to flee by helicopter.
Yuki Bhambri and his partner Ryler Deheart advanced to the doubles quarter-final of the ATP Challenger event after their second-seed rivals Evgeny Kirillov and Alexandre Kudryavtsev retired mid-way in Bangkok.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cannot be faulted for his decision to implement FDI in retail, the 'Bangkok Post' has said.
Fernandez evaluated India's chances at the upcoming Summer Games.
Myanmar Airways International on Monday announced an attractive return fare of Rs 6,999 for Delhi-Bangkok and Rs 6,499 for Delhi-Yangon sectors.
Backing Israel's claims, Thailand police chief has said the three Iranian suspects arrested after the triple blasts in Bangkok were plotting to target Israeli diplomats and confirmed that the sticky bomb found at the attacks' site matched the explosives used in Monday's incident in Delhi.
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