New Delhi: Indian men paddlers entered the finals of the team championship event after beating England, while the women went down fighting against the same opponents in their semi-final encounter at the 19th Commonwealth Championship here Tuesday. Even as men prevailed 3-2, the women's team lost 2-3 to settle for a bronze medal.
Indian men will now take on mighty Singapore, who defeated Malaysia 3-0, in the finals Wednesday. The host team, seeded above England, was shocked in the first match when Achantha Sharath Kamal was humbled by 545th ranked Samuel Walker. The young Englishman who was celebrating his 19th birthday defeated the Indian veteran 12-10 4-11 12-10 11-9 to give visitors a 1-0 lead.
But Soumyajit Ghosh sprung up a surprise as he crushed England's leading medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games, Andrew Baggaley, in straight games. With his aggressive forehand play, Ghosh completed a resounding 11-7 11-8 11-4 win over five-time CWG medal winner to level the rubber for the hosts. England's highest ranked player in the tournament, Baggaley (143) looked woefully out of touch and was comprehensively beaten by Sharath Kamal in the reverse match after India's Harmeet Desai lost to Daniel Reed.
The onus was then on Soumyajit to take the Indians to the finals and he faced the paddler who had proved to be the nemesis of Sharath Kamal in the opening match. The 19-year-old Ghosh, with minimum fuss, got the better off Walker 11-7 12-10 11-6 to enter
06:15 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: In terms of use of modern technology, talented people and tolerance, Delhi is the most creative state in the country, says a study. According to the Creative Index Report 2013, Chandigarh, Punjab, Kerala, Goa, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry and Maharashtra round out the top nine. Haryana and Manipur are tied for the tenth position, it said. "Delhi takes the top spot as the most creative state...
06:20 PM, May 06, 2013
As the fight for justice continues, the man who helped bring about the anti-rape law, Justice JS Verma passed away on Monday evening after suffering from a multiple organ failure. He was one of India's most respected jurists and played guide and mentor to the news television media for nearly five years. "Failure of good governance is the reason for the current situation, not lack of legislation." This is what...
12:10 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: India's leading industrialist brothers, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, have been together listed as 20th richest in the world in the Sunday Times Rich List 2013. The brothers, who have separate industrial empire in India, have been clubbed together under the category of Petrochemicals and they are jointly assessed worth 17 billion pounds as against 19 billion pounds in 2012. The Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, Chairman and Co-Chairman...
12:59 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The new tax policy and charges announced in Union Budget and Railway Budget 2013-14 have become applicable from Monday. Sparing the common man and taxing the super-rich - both individuals and corporate houses, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has increased social spending but stayed away from blatant pre-poll sops in his Budget. ...
01:20 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2013 of the World Economic Forum has ranked India 65th out of the 140 countries covered in its study to rank countries on travel and tourism competitiveness. ...
12:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Seeking to dispel fears over the state of economy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the country will return to high growth of 7 per cent in two years and promised adequate public spending to stimulate it. Replying to a debate on the Budget 2013-14 in the Lok Sabha, he said the government was committed to ensuring reduction of fiscal deficit from 5.2 per cent to 3 per cent...
11:15 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said the government wants to introduce the Direct Tax Code (DTC) bill in the Budget session of Parliament. He also said that Goods and Service Tax (GST) would become a reality within 2013, if all state governments come on board. ...
10:59 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The government on Friday set up a committee headed by former chairman and managing director of Canara Bank MBN Rao to prepare the blueprint for the country's first women's bank. ...
04:28 AM, Mar 09, 2013
CNBC TV18 has emerged as the clear winner as far as the race for the leadership position for business channels coverage of the Union Budget is concerned. Despite its bevy of competitors, CNBC TV18 has managed to stay ahead and remain the head of the pack. ...
04:34 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram answered questions about Budget 2013 using Google Hangout, a multi-person online video chat, on Monday. Chidambaram joined the camp of other personalities like Barack Obama to use Google Hangout to reach out to people. ...
11:21 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram answered questions about Budget 2013 using Google Hangout, a multi-person online video chat, at 8:00 pm on Monday. Chidambaram joined the camp of other personalities like Barack Obama to use Google Hangout to reach out to people. ...
10:15 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram joined a Google Hangout to field questions on Budget 2013-14. ...
07:56 PM, Mar 04, 2013
India's 2013/14 budget unveiled last week offers a "realistic" plan to meet the country's fiscal deficit target, and should be a credit positive for its sovereign ratings, Moody's Investors Service said in a report on Monday. ...
11:35 AM, Mar 04, 2013
In warning to tax dodgers, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said that a huge amount of data is being mined to go after them and ruled out any amnesty scheme for defaulters. "No. In income tax there is no case for amnesty. Because now almost all returns are online except a small category which was exempt. We have a huge amount of data which is being mined. Therefore, there...
10:45 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia lauded P Chidambaram's suggested measures during the Budget speech on Thursday and said the Finance Minister cleared up many doubts in the mind of foreign investors that could invite more investments and boost economy. He also said that Chidambaram's efforts will be able to achieve fiscal deficit of 4.8 per cent by 2014. ...
09:51 PM, Mar 03, 2013
India's first all-women bank will start operations from November this year through six branches spread across the length and breadth of the country, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today. "It will be inaugurated in November. Initially we should start with at least one branch in each major region of this country, South, West, East, Centre, North and North-east. So that will mean immediately we should start with six branches," he...
02:12 PM, Mar 03, 2013
An annual conference of printing industry, which ran into controversy after some of the participants pulled out protesting against an invite to Narendra Modi, was held here today, without the Gujarat Chief Minister. A Gujarat Government official said Modi, who is in the national capital for BJP's National Executive Meeting, had not accepted the invitation to be the chief guest and a keynote speaker at the day-long conference. ...
01:26 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A number of non-legislative decisions covering customs, excise, service tax, insurance and banking to promote growth will be announced in Parliament before the passage of the Finance Bill. Disclosing this here today, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that the budget presented by him on February 28 focussed on the legislative areas and the broad agenda. The government was now working on non-legislative decisions. ...
12:25 PM, Mar 03, 2013
