Having started off badly, the defending champion may find it difficult to keep sole possession of his crown at the Amber tournament.
The defending champion demolished Paco Vallejo for a perfect 2-0 score in the third round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Three-time champion Anand was held by world No. 4 Peter Svidler in the 13th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament.
The world rapid champion will start his campaign against Russian Peter Svidler in the 13th edition of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
On display was India's military might and cultural diversity.
'The real test will be in defence-related deals, for instance the Javelin anti-tank missile: Is the US willing to co-develop something with India, on terms that will support the 'Make in India' initiative? Is there defence technology transfer? Or will it dump old junk on India?' asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Whatever the prime minister might say in defence of his grand vision to seek peace with Pakistan, he cannot justify the oblique insinuation in the Joint Statement that India has a hand in what Pakistan calls 'threats in Balochistan'. This reference draws a parallel with Pakistan's prolonged proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir, under the shadow of its nuclear umbrella, and cannot be justified even though "India has nothing to hide".
From vintage Ferraris to 1970s muscle cars, in 2006 the rarest classic autos commanded an average of $3.9 million.
Practising and encouraging creative thinking so that the collective power of tens (if not hundreds) of millions of original thinkers and practitioners can transform India beyond imagination.
Ra.One is essentially a Bollywood potboiler where even SRK, the superhero acts like SRK, the superstar.
A round-up of Indians' showing on the fifth day of the 17th Asian Games, in Incheon, on Wednesday.
By staying engaged in the useless border talks, knowing fully well that Beijing has no intent to settle territorial issues, India gives greater space to China to mount strategic pressure and gain leverage, notes strategic expert Brahma Chellaney.
Greed lies at the heart of all governance failures too and we, who hopefully are now a little bit more aware and wiser of the consequences of greed, may differ with Gordon Gekko.
Three Indian Air Force officers held as Prisoners of War in a jail in Rawalipindi made a heroic escape. They reached as far as the Pak-Afghan border in Pakistan's Wild West -- within sniffing distance of freedom -- only to realise that they had finally met their match. Or so it seemed. The three escapees were never feted for their audacious attempt 41 years and truly deserve official recognition. Why not honour them at least now, says MP Anil Kumar.
Paradorn's role as the flag-bearer of Asian tennis makes him a hero throughout the region.
Forget bungee jumping: Today's vacationing adrenalin junkies want fighter jets, sharks, Corvettes and black-water rafting.
India's monstrous public distribution system ensured that the government, and not private players, became a huge hoarder of food grains.
The Olympic spotlight falling on Athens in August will be the latest illumination of a city that has fascinated thinkers, poets and writers down the ages.
What can be said with certainty is that the changes that are necessary to the present mode of living will not be possible without the aid of religion or something like it, says Sonali Ranade
What can be said with certainty is that the changes that are necessary to the present mode of living will not be possible without the aid of religion or something like it, says Sonali Ranade
Venus worde down Lindsay Davenport while Clijsters rallied to beat Silvia Farina Elia in women's quarter-final matches.
The dominant version of Islam that informed Egypt's revival seemed to be harsh, fun-less and punitive, and, at the same time, thoroughly incapable of providing a progressive alternative to Mubarak's regime, says Yoginder Sikand
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population!
Kavita Raut on Friday became the first Indian woman to win an individual medal in track events of the Commonwealth Games as she bagged the bronze in 10,000m race at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
'Most Chinese are out of the shadow of the 1962 border conflict. They are thinking of how to make money and not about threatening another country,' says Professor Wang Dehua, who advocates better India-China ties.
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