The up-and-coming Hyderabadi lass extended second seed Jennifer Schmidt of Austria before losing in the NECC-ITF women's tournament.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
A look at the highs and lows of the festival.
Anju George, Anil Kumar and J J Sobha won gold medals as India scooped up nine medals from athletics.
Nisha Millet and Mandar Divse won silver medals in the women's 400m and 1500m freestyle events at the Afro Asian Games.
From additional details of the terror attempt on December 25 by a Nigerian member of Al Qaeda to cause an explosion in a plane of the US North-West Airlines flying from Amsterdam to Detroit as it was approaching Detroit to land there, it is evident that it was not a lone wolf terrorist attempt by an angry individual to give vent to his anger against the United States.
Take the Rediff Business Quiz and find out how much you know about the world's biggest fashion houses.
'The Americans are not safeguarding Pakistani nuclear installations. There is no question of letting the \n\nAmericans do that job for us,' says Pakistan editor Najam Sethi.
Though India is ranked way down in the FIFA rankings, African footballers see the country as a springboard to their European aspirations.
Ethiopian and Kenyan runners stole the limelight on the opening day of the athletics competition at the Afro-Asian Games.
'When you surrender to healing, transformative music, you become the music,' says New Age musician Patrick Bernard.
The life and times of the famed Leftist revolutionary Che Guevara.
They won the women's discuss throw and men's shot put respectively at the Afro-Asian Games.
The transcript of the Professor Hoodbhoy chat.
Al Qaeda not only looks upon India as a close associate of the US similar to the UK, but also as providing favourable conditions for its overseas operations directed against US nationals and interests in Indian territory.
Sweden, Singapore and Finland follow, while the United States loses ground in networked readiness, falling 6 places to 7th position.
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
Markets crashed the world over, share prices slumped, prices of airline tickets went up. All because of global crude oil prices, which touched a record $41 per barrel and output capacity of OPEC. Take the rediff biz quiz and know all about OPEC
'There is no doubt that the US would like all their friends to agree with them. We are not in the habit of doing that,' says former diplomat Arundhati Ghose.
India stands 40th in 'network readiness' in the world, having slipped from the 39th spot it held last year. However, it is above China (50th) and Pakistan (67th) and Sri Lanka (83rd).
'As the Indian economy continues to grow, we expect that India will be an ever more important partner and that the already strong people-to-people ties between our two countries will continue to prosper.'
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
© 2025 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances