Indian boxers assure 5 medals, Sharath-Amalraj win silver

Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj picked up the silver medal in the men's doubles table tennis while Seema Punia won in women's discuss throw in the Commonwealth Games 2014 on Friday. Sharath, three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, and Amalraj ...

Seema Punia bagged a silver medal for India while defending champion Krishna Poonia finished a disappointing fifth in the women's discus throw competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, on Friday.Seema, who had won a bronze at the 2010 Games in Delhi and a silver in 2006 at Melbourne, threw the discus to 61.61m, her season's best, to grab the silver while a struggling Krishna could only come up with a below-par effort of 57.84m.Seema achieved her best throw in the penultimate ...

During the annual U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, which was concluded today in New Delhi by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency announced two new projects that demonstrate the strength of the Agency's public-private ...

Irresponsible batting on the fifth day saw India crash to a 266-run defeat against England in the third Test on Thursday, allowing the hosts level the five-match series 1-1. Needing to bat out the day, with six wickets in hand, to save the match, the Indians crumbled in the first session itself and were dismissed for a meagre 178 in 66.4 overs. - Scorecard While England had not won in ten previous Tests, Mahendra Singh Dhoni suffered his seventh defeat against England, the most by a captain in ...

The Indian stock market joined a global equity selloff on Friday, as the rupee logged its biggest drop since January 24 and foreign institutional investors (FIIs) offloaded stocks in bulk for the third day in a row. There was fear on the Street that the rout ...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday told a special court here that suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehsin Akhtar and Zia-Ur-Rahman are "still conspiring" to carry out terror attacks in prominent places in India including Delhi. "Both these ...

58 Indian nurses from Libya are on their way back home, the government said on Friday while making a fresh appeal to all the Indians in the strife-torn nation to leave in view of deterioration in situation with a promise to make all arrangements for ...

With its stand on food security leading to a stalemate at the WTO talks in Geneva, India today said it is committed to the global trade deal and will re-engage with members when talks resume a month from now. "WTO will open in September. We are prepared to ...

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