India has been battling a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced many countries to ban travellers from India.
If there was one event that made the month of August stand out, it was a strengthening of the dollar index to levels last seen only 20 years ago, as the Federal Reserve dispelled all doubts about its intention to continue raising interest rates. Predictably, most currencies suffered against the US unit, with the bulk of the losers belonging to the emerging markets pack. Amid the volatility, the rupee, however, has displayed significant resilience and fared much better than most of its peer currencies.
Chetan Anand was a first round casualty, but the mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju kept the tri-colour fluttering as India wrapped up a mixed day at the Malaysia Open Super Series badminton event in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
India defeated Malaysia 2-1 in the men's hockey Pool A match to make the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, on Tuesday. Drag-flick specialist Harmanpreet Singh scored both the goals in a thrilling match.
Saina showed signs of regaining her form on her way to a sensational win over Chinese world number 9 He Bing Jiao
The royal couple's 21-year-old son died a few hours later apparently due to drug overdose, local media reports said on Tuesday.
The Indian men's badminton team scripted a memorable 3-2 win over Malaysia to enter the semifinals of Thomas Cup for the first time in 43 years
Seven times world champion Michael Schumacher will start in 14th place after replacing his engine.
The other men's singles semi-final match on Saturday will be played between Priyanshu Rajawat and Kaushal Dharmamer.
The BUK surface-to-air missile system is believed to have been used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 298 people aboard.
Oriental Bank of Commerce along with Bank of Baroda and Bank of Maharashtra is to form a joint venture in Malaysia, for which they are awaiting Reserve Bank's nod.
Indian customers will have wider travel options as airlines introduce new flights from the end of March. While Malaysian Airlines and Turkish Airlines are resuming passenger flights to India after a gap of two years, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group will scale up their existing service in a graded manner in the summer schedule. Emirates, the largest foreign airline operating in India, too, is looking to restore its pre-Covid-19 schedule of 172 flights per week.
A summary of Indian athletes' performance on Day 7 of the Games.
Travel companies are opting for Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, Sri Lankan Airlines and Air India for holiday-makers.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 2 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:
India's double Olympics medallist P V Sindhu continued her impressive run at the French Open badminton tournament, sailing into the women's singles semi-finals with a straight-game win over Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan, in Paris, on Friday. Sindhu, seeded third, scripted a convincing 21-14, 21-14 win over eighth seeded in 38 minutes to extend her head-to-head record against the Thai to 14-1.
Malaysia's top mobile operator Maxis Communications may expand into regional markets like India and neighbouring Indonesia within the next two years in search of new business opportunities, Maxis chairman Megat Zaharuddin said Monday.
Satwik and Ashwini, who reached the semi-finals at Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 in January, will meet the winner of the match between fifth-seeded Malaysians Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing and Germany's Jones Ralfy Jansen and Kilasu Ostermeyer.
The script remained the same in the second game as well, with Sindhu maintaining her firm grip over the proceedings to race to a 6-0 lead in just two minutes.
Deputy US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Wednesday announced that three indictments have been unsealed in the matter that collectively charge five Chinese nationals with computer hacking and charge two Malaysian nationals with helping some of those hackers target victims and sell the fruits of their crime.
Terming the police action against ethnic Indians in Malaysia "barbaric", AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that the Centre take immediate steps to secure the release of members of the community arrested for taking part in a stir.
India's Lakshya Sen secured his maiden Super 500 title by winning the Yonex-Sunrise India Open with a stunning straight-game victory over reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the men's singles final in New Delhi on Sunday.
A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed on Thursday in Penang between Romli Bin Hj Hassan, director general of Malaysia's human resources ministry and G Raghavan, president, NIIT Global Individual Learning Business.
India have finished as the best-performing nation in the sport in the 1990, 2002, and 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Top shuttlers, including Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth, are likely to leave for Malaysia and Singapore via Doha to participate in the last two Olympic qualifiers next month due to travel bans imposed by the two countries in the wake of unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases in India.
As the search continued off the coast of Australia for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the airline announced another plane bound for India was forced to make an emergency landing early Monday after one of its tires burst on takeoff.
3i Infotech said on Monday it has bagged an order from Malaysia-based financial institution for SMEs Credit Guarantee Corporation for its universal lending solution -- Kastle.
Multinational rescue teams were scouring remote seas in the Indian Ocean to trace the missing Malaysian plane carrying 239 people on board, as the desperate search for the jet entered its third week on Saturday.
'This does not appear to be a crash. Had it been one, then the debris would have been found... Al Qaeda today has greater presence around the world... If the West withdraws completely, Afghanistan will rely on Pakistan which in turn will use the situation to pursue its own agenda...' Ajit Doval, former director, Intelligence Bureau, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
A Beijing-bound plane of Malaysia Airlines carrying 239 people including two infants has crashed into the sea.
"Prime Minister Modi raised the issue of Zakir Naik's extradition. Both the parties have decided that our officials will stay in contact regarding the matter and it is an important issue for us," Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on PM Modi's meeting with Mahathir.
FC Goa started off the Derrick Pereira era with a 1-1 draw
A soccer team in north-east Malaysia may be forced to play all their home matches at a neutral venue in future following a spate of crowd violence at its Kota Baru stadium. The latest violent incident followed Kelantan's 1-0 defeat in the first leg of their FA Cup semi-final on Tuesday, after which the visiting Negri Sembilan were trapped in their dressing room for two hours as fans ran amok.
The Malaysians handed India a heartbreaking 6-7 loss in sudden death after an exhausting shoot-off.
With cash shortage and plans going awry, the AirAsia owner is looking to cash out of the venture he built with Ratan Tata in 2013.
Dismissing the petition of the company, a Division Bench headed by Justice Manmohan Sarin said that Oil and Natural Gas Corporation was right in rejecting its bid for the project. The bench passed the order on a petition filed by the Malaysian company seeking court's direction to award the contract to it which was earlier given to L&T but was later cancelled paving the way for fresh bidding.
PV Sindhu outclassed Germany's Yvonne Li to cruise into the women's singles quarter-finals of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 event in Bali on Thursday.
Two South Indian recipes to be served with rice.
Malaysia Airlines flies to Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kochi.
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