The former Indian national champion beat Mohd. Essam Hafiz of Egypt in straight games to reach the quarter-finals of the Atlanta Open Squash championship.
There was no stopping the Indian juggernaut at the 12th South Asian Games with the country's swimmers, wrestlers and weightlifters continuing their dominance in the competition to fetch a bulk of the gold medals, in Guwahati, on Sunday.
Indian squash hierarchy will be put to the test in the semi-finals of the Granite Open when the country's top two players Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa.
Manjit Singh came from nowhere to snatch the men's 800m gold for the biggest medal of his life but finals continued to be a riddle for P V Sindhu
The Tamil Nadu lass, after bagging the girls' under-15 title, stormed into the women's and girls' under-19 finals, in the 62nd CCI-Western India Open squash.
'What Kamala Harris' rise and rise underscores is that our old ways of identifying the Indian-American Diaspora need to change...' 'None of this detracts from her Indian-American identity, which makes us feel as if we are Americans too,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The men's top seed outclassed Chandan Jadhav in the Rs 600,000 Herald Maritime Open Squash Championships.
India's youngest national champion entered the under-19 and women's final in the Indian Oil Open squash tournament.
The youngster spoke about handling the limelight, the comparisons
The Spanish Mediterranean town of Bunol turned red when around 22,000 people gathered to throw 150 tonne of ripe tomatoes at each other during the Tomatina festival -- the world's biggest annual tomato fight.
The Chennai lass won the girls' under-19 and women's titles in the Servo squash championship.
'The cow can always be the CAUSE.' 'Cause for murder. Cause for setting India's people against each other.' 'Not recognising the fact that this can tip the country into an unending spiral of civil strife and set the much-vaunted 'India story' back by years is the ultimate stupidity of all,' says Shuma Raha.
The Indian ace beat Stefan Leifels of Germany in the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open PSA Squash Championship.
Dinesh Karthik acknowledged that he has an onerous task of replacing a very successful Gautam Gambhir but asserted that he has it in him to steer Kolkata Knight Riders to at least the IPL Play-offs and get the best out of his side.
The national squash champion will play tournaments in Spain and Qatar in a bid to break into the top 64 and qualify.
Young Joshna Chinappa made it to the girls' under-19 and women's final in the Servo Open.
Top seeded Khan dropped a game before beating unseeded Fateh Singh in the boys' under-17 in the Servo Open squash championship.
Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog sailed into the last eight in the boys' under-19 Oil-Servo Open squash championship.
World Squash Federation president Narayana Ramachandran is set to be elected unopposed as the president of Indian Olympic Association in the polls to be held here next month as he was the only candidate to file nomination papers for the top post.
Two others, Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog, lost their matches from winning positions in the second round of the World junior men's squash championship\n\n
India's in-form shooter Jitu Rai gave the country its first gold medal in the 17th Asian Games, cutting through a tough field to finish on top in the 50m pistol event in Incheon on Saturday.
India won two bronze medals from track and field through Abitha Mary Manuel and Anamika Das on the third day of competition at the fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa, on Wednesday. Manuel and Das placed third in the girls' 800 metres and shot put respectively.
India will not take part in baseball, bowling, fencing, karate, modern pentathlon, rugby, softball, soft tennis and triathlon because of the athletes' poor standards.
Giving details of Rajan's 'course schedule' for 2016-17, Chicago Booth School said this course will explore the challenges of corporate finance and investment in a more integrated global economy.
Take a cue from these celebrity weddings and glam up your wedding look.
Shooters continued to deliver medals for India at the 17th Asian Games with the trio of Heena Siddhu, Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed cliching a bronze in the women's 25m pistol event in Incheon on Monday.
'If you put me into a daily soap where things invariably go wrong in the family and people are crying, I can't be a part of that set up.'
'It is time again for Durga Puja.' 'Time again to be struck by India's astonishing cultural irony, one where the female form is worshipped as divinity while millions of real women are forced to lead restricted lives,' notes Shuma Raha.
'It is a great thing for Test cricket at the moment because we have been talking about it for the last 2-3 years'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
Recently-elected Indian Olympic Association president N Ramachandran has promised to make national federations more accountable and transparent in their functioning, saying that he would not hesitate to resign from his position if he fails to make a difference.
'Mahatma Gandhi, even for those on the extreme Hindu Right who believe he founded the politics of Muslim 'appeasement', is suicidal to target,' asserts Shekhar Gupta.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday.
'As I watched Sacred Games, I kept flinching at the thought of all the thorns poised to lodge themselves in the sides of the thin-skinned,' says Mitali Saran.
More than 1,400 people have signed an e-petition on the UK government website calling to 'Reverse Mango Import Ban.'
Former recipients of the Arjuna award on Tuesday lamented that its dignity has been lowered and the government is now 'throwing' the honour away.
The overall tally of six gold, five silver and 14 bronze medals at the end of day six put the country in 8th spot in the table with China leading the pack by quite a distance, having already crossed the 100-mark.
'It was a mission undertaken in darkness in every sense -- literally, because Afghanistan had no electricity at that time; and, metaphorically because Delhi historically dealt only with the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and the foreign ministry's vast archives had nothing to offer on the culture and politics of the northern tribes in the Hindu Kush.'
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
