Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Sushma Swaraj to rescue: Assures visa to Pakistani mother for child’s treatment
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj responded to a visa request on Friday, by an Indian man living in Dubai for his Pakistani wife for treatment of their son in Mumbai. In a tweet, Yasin said he applied for visa for his Pakistani wife in September to travel to Mumbai for treatment of their son who is special child. “Where have you...
No immediate plans to further cut import duty on wheat: Govt
The government has no immediate plans to further cut the import duty on wheat to a zero level as overseas purchase of the grain still works out to be cheaper at the current customs duty level. On September 23, the import duty on wheat was reduced to 10% from 25% to boost supplies and check prices during Dusshera and Diwali festivals. “There...
How Putin wields his levers of power
Barack Obama, a foreign-affairs novice, came to a government in which America’s foreign policy was a sphere of contest among different aides rather than a settled posture. He did not have a settled view on what to do with dictators and was a reluctant intervener in foreign morasses; he opposed the invasion of Iraq while still an Illinois...
Saina Nehwal explains why China can’t be taken for granted and what BAI can learn from BCCI
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday said India has adequate infrastructure for badminton but don’t have enough coaches and academies. “There is no problem on infrastructure front, but what we don’t have enough number of academies and coaches, like the Chinese have,” she told PTI. Saina has been practising here after...
9 athletes, including 6 medalists, caught for Beijing Olympics doping
Nine more athletes, including six medal winners, were retroactively disqualified from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday after failing retests of their doping samples. The International Olympic Committee announced the decisions in the latest sanctions imposed on athletes whose stored samples came back positive after being retested with...
Russian weightlifter, Apti Aukhadov stripped of 2012 Olympics silver medal
Russia’s Apti Aukhadov was stripped of the men’s weightlifting silver medal he won in the 85 kg category at the London 2012 Olympics after he tested positive for banned substances in re-tests of samples, the International Olympic Committee said. The IOC said on Tuesday Aukhadov’s sample came back positive for steroids turinabol...
Paes-Begemann enters semis of Tashkent Challenger
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and his German partner Andre Begemann eked out a fighting win over Oleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan and Ukraine’s Denys Molchanov to enter the semi-finals of the men’s doubles event of the Tashkent ATP Challenger in Tashkent on Wednesday. Seeded third, Paes and Begemann had to sweat it out to...
Good news! Shah Rukh Khan’s unreleased mini series ‘Ahamaq’ to be screened at Mumbai film festival
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s lesser known mini series-turned-film Ahamaq will be screened at the upcoming Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in Mumbai. Directed by filmmaker Mani Kaul, the film was first released as a four part TV mini-series on Doordarshan in 1991, before being screened at the New York Film Festival in 1992. Ahamaq, however, was...
China Open: Agnieszka Radwanska, Madison Keys enter semi-finals
Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska stormed into the semi-finals of the China Open on Thursday with a 6-1 6-2 win against Yaroslava Shvedova, while American Madison Keys edged past Petra Kvitova 6-3 6-7(2) 7-6(5). Radwanska will next face Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, who followed up her surprise win over world number one Angelique Kerber by easing past...
China Open: Kvitova dumps out defending champion Muguruza
Petra Kvitova breezed past defending champion Garbine Muguruza 6-1 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals, while world number one Angelique Kerber battled past Barbora Strycova in the second round of the China Open on Wednesday. Kvitova, the winner of last week’s Wuhan Open title, won three of her four break point opportunities against the...
