Saina Nehwal made a perfect start to the new season, reaching the women's singles final of the $ 350,000 Indonesia Masters with a thrilling straight-game win over world no 4 Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand in Jakarta, on Saturday.
Deputy Chef de Mission Balbir Singh Kushwaha said that facilities at the Games Village were good.
The Indian kabaddi contingent made an impressive start to its campaign at the 18th Asian Games with the women's team mauling Japan and the men's side beating Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Jakarta on Sunday.
Most Japanese and Chinese imported oil and one-third of the world's traded goods pass through this area in Southeast Asia.
The team for the Asia-Oceania round includes Sanam Singh, Rupesh Roy and Sumit Gupta.
It was touted as the year which could herald a change in the fortunes Indian hockey, but 2018 turned out to be yet another saga of missed opportunities for the sport.
A team mate of Japanese badminton Olympic medal hope Kento Momota on Friday confessed to taking the world number two-ranked player to an illegal casino and tearfully begged officials to allow the star to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Barcelona have become the first sports club to reach 50 million followers on social networking website Facebook, the Spanish soccer champions said on Thursday.
Polaris CEO Arun Jain said the detention by the Indonesian police seemed ‘pre-planned and premeditated’.
Indonesian authorities on Tuesday returned the passports of Polaris chief executive officer Arun Jain and his colleague Rajiv Malhotra, which had been confiscated following their arrests in a commercial dispute case.
However 10 others expected to have faced the firing squad, including nationals from Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe as well as Indonesians, were not put to death.
Indian men went down to South Korea 0-5 in their last league encounter to finish second in Group 'A' of the Thomas Cup preliminaries.
India upset Hong Kong 4-1 in the league encounter of the Uber Cup (preliminaries) Asia Zone badminton tournament.
The Indian champions beat Indonesia's Petrokimia Putra after a sudden-death penalty shoot-out.
A 2-1 victory gave the India Under-18 team their first win in the in the Milk Cup qualifiers in Northern Ireland.
The 17-year-old easily beat Indian ace Rushmi Chakravarthy in the final of the women's TIF tournament.\n\n
Stanley D'silva, his mother Vimla and sister Julie have been hospitalised in Pune and are on their way to recovery, state Health Minister Digvijay Khanvilkar said.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
However, the court ruled there was no evidence Ba'asyir was the leader of a plot to topple the Indonesian government or the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah.
The attack had killed two persons and injured 21, including the Philippines ambassador Leonides T Caday.
Vimal Periyar scored a brace in a 3-0 victory in the final.
Polaris chief Arun Jain and his colleague Rajiv Malhotra who were released by Indonesian police on Friday may get back their passports and other related documents on Monday.
'I have got an offer from Perek and I will be going there next month on loan from East Bengal,' the Sikkimese said.
The ace striker predicted a "hard game" against BEC Tero Sesana in Saturday's ASEAN Club championship final.
The ace striker took his international goal tally to 44 after scoring in the ASEAN championship match against Persita Tangerang.
Substitute Bijen Singh's goal gave the Indian champions a 2-1 victory over Indonesia's Persita Tangerang \n\nin the quarter-finals.
Two-time bronze medallist, P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth started their campaign at the World Badminton Champion with contrasting victories in the women's and men's singles competition respectively in Jakarta.
Minutes earlier, Sarkar had been in the media tribune, capturing the proudest moment of his coaching career on a modest mobile phone as Barman stood on the podium shrouded in India's tri-colour flag with the gold medal around her neck.
Amit Panghal displayed soldier's grit to stun the reigning Olympic champion for India's only boxing gold while two 50-plus bridge players proved that age is just a number with top finishes as the country achieved its best-ever medal haul at the Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Saturday. India equalled its best gold medal haul by touching 15, something that last happened back in 1951, as the overall tally surpassed the 65 in Guangzhou by three this time.
Air-India has temporarily suspended its flights from Delhi and Hyderabad to Singapore with effect from Monday due to SARS and the Indian Pilots Guild's decision not to operate flights to Singapore.
Jobless Manjit pipped pre-race favourite and national record holder Jinson Johson to take the gold in 1:46.15
Mumbai is also on the top-10 'improvers' list.
In the medal standings, India were placed eighth with a compilation of seven gold, five silver and 17 bronze.
Rio Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Sakshi Malik wasn't fully prepared for last month's Asian Wrestling Championship, her first international event after the quadrennial games, she revealed.
The Indian ace easily beat Silawan Choptang of Thailand in the 10,000 ITF tournament in Jakarta.
The Indian ace made the grade in the singles and doubles in the second leg of the ITF women's event in Jakarta.
The Wimbledon girls' doubles champion beat compatriot Rushmi Chakravarti in the final of the professional event in Jakarta.
PV Sindhu had to dig deep to down a fighting Vu Thi Trang of Vietnam but Saina Nehwal did not break any sweat as India's top two shuttlers advanced to the women's singles second round at the 18th Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Thursday.
Sania was forced to drop a set by Shruthi Dhawan before making the grade in the ITF event in Jakarta.
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