National Champion Saina Nehwal got off to a good start at Yonex Sunrise Grand Prix Gold 2008 badminton tournament by advancing to the second round after registering a comfortable straight games victory.
The Free Trade Agreement between Peru and China was signed on April 28. For China, Peru is an important source of minerals, primarily copper. For Peru, increasing trade with China is a key way of diversifying the export economy toward an area of dynamic demand.
Lleyton Hewitt said he was eager to represent Australia at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing.
Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with India have set off global protests
Libya's embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday scrambled hard to stick to power as anti-regime protesters gained control of several eastern cities and the revolt moved closer to the capital Tripoli with many army officers defecting to join the uprising.
"He's got a severe strain in the area between the calf and the Achilles' tendon in his left leg," federation doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro told the RFET Web site.
Rafael Nadal's decision to opt out of Spain's Davis Cup tie against Peru is understandable given the physical problems the world number two has experienced in recent seasons, captain Emilio Sanchez-Vicario said.
G Vidya beat other contestants to win a chance to act with Ramya Krishnan in the Tamil serial.
Unfashionable Premier League side Fulham knocked favourites Juventus out of the Europa League after an astonishing 4-1 win over the Italians who finished the last 16 second leg game with nine men on Thursday.
Sania Mirza and Australian partner Alicia Molik beat the unseeded Greco-German pair of Eleni Daniilidou and Jasmin Woehr 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 while Rohan Bopanna and American-Indian Rajeev Ram ousted the British-American duo of James Auckland and Sam Querrey 6-1, 7-6(4) to advance to the second round at the Australian Open.
Indian stock markets have been rated third best performing market in the world. India follows Peru and Brazil and has ousted China.
Arsenal have agreed to pay $6.5 million for Brazilian midfielder Denilson.
In its first ever list of World's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions, the US business magazine has named Bangalore-based Bandhan at the second position.
UEFA Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk were knocked out of the Europa League after being held to a 1-1 draw by visitors Fulham in their round of 32 tie Thursday. Former European champions Liverpool and Juventus progressed to the last 16 and Werder Bremen striker Claudio Pizarro scored a hat-trick as his side went through with a 4-1 win over former England manager Steve McLaren's Twente Enschede.
Hindalco Industries, an Aditya Birla group company, is scouting for copper mines in Columbia, Peru and Argentina.
Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa believes Barack Obama would do well to pay attention to the question of skilled immigrant workers.
Paraguay produced a ruthless performance to beat Chile 3-0 an go top of the South American World Cup qualifying group. They lead the 10-team group with 10 points from four games. Chile are stuck on four points.
Luis Fabiano scored twice to give Brazil a fortuitous 2-1 win over Uruguay in their World Cup qualifier after the vistors had taken an early lead and dominated much of the game.
Colombia beat Argentina 2-1 after a first-half red card for Carlos Tevez in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.
Argentina, helped by a majestic Juan Roman Riquelme performance, maintained their perfect record in the World Cup qualifiers on Saturday while Ecuador coach Luis Fernando Suarez quit after a 5-1 loss to Paraguay. Riquelme scored two second half goals, including an exquisite free kick, in a 3-0 win over Bolivia which left Argentina with nine points from three games in the South American group.
If you want to clean up your act diet-wise, here's some sound advice regarding foods that possess detoxifying properties and how they can benefit you.
The endangered list includes the Western Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) found in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Indian Grandmasters Vidit Gujrathi and S P Sethuraman placed themselves for a medal contention as they defeated Jorge Cori of Peru and Vladislav Kovalev of Belarus respectively in the 12th and penultimate round of World Juniors Chess Championship.
Global slowdown has dampened hiring prospects of India Inc, causing its outlook to hit the lowest ebb, with only 19 per cent employers having positive recruitment plans in the next three months, according to global staffing services firm Manpower.
While 14 cases of cocaine peddling have been registered, the cases with respect to other drugs are over 60
Both Sukinda and Vapi are new entrants on the Institute's list, but Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, which was included last year, is out of the top ten this time but still finds place in the top 30 contaminated areas identified by the survey.
San Francisco and Bangalore have a lot in common but there is a lot more that is different.Bangalore needs to imbibe the spirit of San Francisco.
While there has been a 15 per cent drop in the number of Americans pursuing studies in India, there is an exactly proportional rise in the number of Indian students in the US.
Ranbaxy has completed the second phase of the clinical trial of a revolutionary anti-malarial drug that could enable it to be the nation's first pharmaceutical company to launch a New Chemical Entity globally.
Seismologists draw parallels to the quakes that hit the Pacific region, extending from Peru to Banda Sea in the east of Indonesian islands.
Chelsea set an unbeaten home record of 64 matches during their 3-2 win over Birmingham City.
Though Chelsea will be trying to repeat their title Premiership triumphs of 2005 and 2006, it is the Champions League title that they have set their sights on.
Brazil's disappointingly one-sided win over Argentina in the Copa America final was a victory for muscle over finesse and could prompt the losers to revert to a more physical, less entertaining, style.
Substitute Lionel Messi scored two late goals, including one in stoppage time, to lead 2006 winners Barcelona to a 2-1 victory at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Wednesday. Last season's runners-up Chelsea were held to a 0-0 draw at surprise packages CFR Cluj, who were playing in Romania's third division just six years ago.
Fourth seed Carlos Moya continued his impressive run at the Swedish Open on Friday by easily dispatching local hope Robin Soderling 6-2 6-4 in the quarter-finals.
Brazil are the only country bidding to host the tournament following the withdrawal of Colombia in April.
Brazil's players have rejected the idea that Argentina will start as favourites in Sunday's Copa America final.
Argentina routed Peru 4-0 while Mexico thrashed 10-man Paraguay 6-0 at the Copa America football tournament.
Brazil and Uruguay confounded the critics who had labelled them dull and unimaginative by combining to fire 10 goals past their opponents in reaching the Copa America semi-finals on Saturday.
The official declaration of the new Seven Wonders of the World will be done in Lisbon at 0145 hours IST on Sunday.
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