The Indian teenager was beaten by Yuan Kartika of Indonesia in her second qualifying match at the Indonesia Open badminton championships.
Saina Nehwal became the first Indian woman to win a four-star badminton event.
The Asian Development Bank said Friday it would extend a $313.6-million loan to help improve India's railway system plus a technical assistance grant worth $500,000.
Projection for economic growth in India for this fiscal was based on oil prices at $62 a barrel, he said, adding that a $10 dollar rise in oil prices mean 1.2 per cent reduction in India's GDP growth
The Indian economy is likely to slow down a little to 7.6 per cent in the fiscal year 2006 and 7.8 per cent in 2007 as consumption and investment may get affected due to higher inflation, Asian Development Bank said on Thursday.
The Asian Development Bank will give a $20-million technical assistance loan to India for carrying out reforms in the judicial system.
Agreements on Teesta River water sharing, land boundaries and extradition remain in limbo in spite of friendly relations between India and Bangladesh, says Syed Tashfin Chowdhury
Asian Development Bank on Monday said India needs to increase investment rate and improve productivity on a massive scale if its economy was to expand beyond 7-8 per cent.
Singh was allegedly one of the masterminds of a kidnapping syndicate that operated and victimised Indian nationals living in eastern Metropolitan Manila and Rizal province.
India, whose economy is tipped to grow by 7 to 7.5 per cent in 2005-06, on Monday said the projection was not an outcome of mere wishful thinking, but based on aggressive agenda for economic reforms.
Surging oil prices are unlikely to restrain the strong economic growth in India and China, Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank said.
Jetstar Asia on Thursday launched its international no-frills, low-cost and thrice-a-week flights between Kolkata and Singapore.
The two men reportedly have lived on the restive southern island of Mindanao since they were separated from their\ndivision, staying on for fear they would face court-martial if they returned to Japan.
India is set to witness a roller-coaster growth in the next three years ranging between 6-7 per cent mainly due to fluctuations in prospects of industry and services sectors, according to the Asian Development Bank.
In his message, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the Pope was 'a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself'.
Mumbai and New Delhi are among the world's cheapest cities while Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan continue to remain the most expensive, the annual Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide Cost of Living Survey said.
Manila-based content outsourcing company SPI Technologies Inc has acquired KG Information Services and Technologies's medical transcription business for an undisclosed amount and plans to double its headcount to 2,000 by March 2006.
IT consultancy and services company Techspan India plans to invest $16 million to grow its infrastructure four-fold by June this year.
Indian microfinance has continued growing rapidly towards the main objective of financial inclusion, extending outreach to a growing share of poor households and to the approximately 80 per cent of the population, which has yet to be reached directly by the banks.
Bad weather hit relief and rescue operations, and weather forecasters predict another typhoon next week.
Rediff.com lists a few other dramatic and frightful hostage situations that sent governments and security agencies into a tizzy.
Expecting India to sustain a high 8.2 per cent GDP growth in next three years, Asian Development Bank on Thursday offered up to $6.47 billion assistance during 2005-07 with special emphasis on agriculture and poor states.
India's economic growth is likely to slow down to 6.5 per cent this fiscal and to 6 per cent in the subsequent year mainly due to high oil prices, which reactivated inflation, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
'We have been held hostage because they think we are helping Americans,' Tilak Raj says in a video.
The 4 x 400m quartet of Manjit Kaur, K M Beenamol, Rajwinder Kaur and Chitra K Soman clocked three minutes, 27.35 seconds in the second leg of the 2004 Asian Grand Prix Athletics Series in Colombo.
Asian Development Bank on Thursday pegged India's economic growth at 7.4 per cent for 2004 and said high growth is likely to be sustained in medium term.
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