Somdev Devvarman suffered his second consecutive first round defeat, losing in straight sets to local player Adrian Mannarino in the euro 450,000 ATP Nice Open, in Nice, France. Ranked 66, the unseeded Indian lost 3-6, 6-7(7) to the French opponent, placed 13 places above him in the ATP ranking chart.
Fire-fighters went on alert as the mercury crept towards an expected maximum of 44 degrees Celsius (111 F), the highest since Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 that killed about 180 people in the southeastern state of Victoria.
India is ranked among the top 10 wealthiest countries in the world.
United States has the world's largest gold reserves.
Indian HNWIs move to the UAE, the UK, the US and Australia.
India is ranked 10 among the 20 wealthiest countries in the world in terms of private wealth held by individuals.
India, with m-cap of about $1.6 trillion, is ahead of Switzerland.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
England and France qualified in style for the last 16 of the women's World Cup.
The world is home to a record number of 2,089 billionaires.
India has been ranked a low 119 out of 130 countries on an index that measures business resilience.
Marta became the all-time leading scorer at the women's World Cup on Tuesday as Brazil vaulted to the top of Group E with a 2-0 win over South Korea, while Eugenie Le Sommer's superb long-range strike gave France victory over England.
'Despite frequent high-level interactions there has been little traction on substantive issues between India and France,' says Mohan Guruswamy.
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