PUNE: As part of the annual defence dialogue between China and India which commenced in 2006, a 137-member contingent of the Chinese army arrived
here on Thursday in continuation of the ongoing army-to-army co-operation programme. The contingent arrived in a service aircraft.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pune/India_China_to_hold_joint_exercise/articleshow/3794219.cms
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Vijendar won Bronze in Mens 75kg Boxing
vijendAR WON BRONZE:
Vijender Kumar was defeated by Emilio Correa Bayeaux of Cuba during the Men's 75 kg Semifinal boxing match today. Emilio won by 8:5.
Vijender creates history for India by winning the bronze,
Sunday, August 17, 2008
medal hope for India again
Medal hope for India again by entering into quarter finalso of boxing.India's akil kumar,vijendar and Jithendar enter into quarter finals of mens 75,57,55 kg boxing.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Nehwal knocks sixth seed out of Badminton Women's Singles
(BEIJING, August 11) -- World No. 15 Saina Nehwal of India beat sixth seed Wang Chen of Hong Kong in the Badminton Women's Singles round of 16 on Monday, August 11.
World No. 6 Wang lost the first game 21-19 to Nehwal, though she reached 19 first when her opponent only had 16.
The second game saw Wang regain her momentum and win 21-11.
However, Nehwal led 6-0 at the beginning of the tiebreaker and kept this lead to win with the same score as the previous game, 21-11.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Women’s Singles: Saina Nehwal
India's most promising women shuttler Saina Nehwal will put India's challenge at the Beijing Olympics. The wonder-girl from Hyderabad has made her mark at the international arena in a very short span of time.
Saina became the first Indian woman to win, a four-star badminton event, 2006 Philippines Open. She is currently being trained under the watchful eyes of former All-England champion Pullela Gopichand.
Saina burst into the international scene by claiming the Junior Czech Open in the year 2003. She is the only Indian women badminton player thus far who had won the Asian Satellite Badminton Tournament (India Chapter) twice besides being the finalist of World Junior Championship in the year 2006.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Leander and Mahesh ready to strike
BEIJING: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are trying to be fourth-time lucky in the Olympic Games.
“We had a very good work-out. The preparation has been great. Both of us reached the semifinals of Cincinnatti. We would have trained in Los Angeles only if we had not done well in the last tournament.
“It makes sense to come early and get acclimatised to the slow and high bouncing courts and conditions here,” said Paes, after a rigorous training session with his erstwhile partner Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic.
On a warm day, it was a joy to watch Paes and Bhupathi, trying to tune themselves towards peak form and fitness, so as to be ready when the competition begins. They start against Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon of France.
Tough draw
“It is a tough draw. We are in fact lucky to be seeded No.7. They have used a new system of singles rankings to seed the doubles players. The first round is always tough. The French are big guys,” said Paes, as he viewed the second quarter of the draw in which the Indian pair figured.
The Indian duo is likely to meet the Czech pair of Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek if it pulls off the first round. The quarterfinals could well be against Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, seeded fourth.
“Federer is a genius and Wawrinka is a top-10 singles player,” Paes pointed out, though he in partnership with Lukas Dlouhy had beaten them in straight sets in Canada, a fortnight ago.
Well, the Swiss may have to first get past special invitees, the defending champions Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu of Chile.
The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, are seeded No.1, while the Serbs, Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic are second. Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel are seeded third and figure in the third quarter. The Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Tommy Robredo are seeded No.6, and figure in the top quarter.
Asked whether he was hungry to win a better medal than the singles bronze that he had won in Atalanta in 1996, Paes, competing in his fifth Olympics, said that the media would run out of pages to write, if he started answering the question.
Mahesh practised for an additional hour with Sunitha Rao as Sania Mirza had not reached yet.
Sania’s path is difficult
In fact, Sania has a tough draw, as she runs into the seventh seed and Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the second round, if she gets past Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.
Even in doubles, Sania and Sunitha are likely to meet the top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina, if they beat Tatiana Golovin and Pauline Parmentier of France in the first round.
“We are here to win the tournament, and the draw does not matter, or who we play first”, said Bhupathi, who had a snide remark at the assembled Indian media by saying that only five per cent of them believed that the Indian pair could actually win an Olympic medal.
“We are still capable of winning matches. People say that we are over the hill. I don’t see any hill in front. We are playing top quality tennis”, he said.
“There are some great doubles teams playing each other in the first round. We are lucky to be seeded. They have to show some consistency, as it is the first time the singles ranking has been considered for doubles seeding. They don’t do that even in Grand Slams,” said Bhupathi, as he turned his ire on the authorities.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have different personalities, but the same goal.
Can they give us a lasting memory of their world class partnership? Only time will tell.
Source:the HIndu
“We had a very good work-out. The preparation has been great. Both of us reached the semifinals of Cincinnatti. We would have trained in Los Angeles only if we had not done well in the last tournament.
“It makes sense to come early and get acclimatised to the slow and high bouncing courts and conditions here,” said Paes, after a rigorous training session with his erstwhile partner Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic.
On a warm day, it was a joy to watch Paes and Bhupathi, trying to tune themselves towards peak form and fitness, so as to be ready when the competition begins. They start against Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon of France.
Tough draw
“It is a tough draw. We are in fact lucky to be seeded No.7. They have used a new system of singles rankings to seed the doubles players. The first round is always tough. The French are big guys,” said Paes, as he viewed the second quarter of the draw in which the Indian pair figured.
The Indian duo is likely to meet the Czech pair of Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek if it pulls off the first round. The quarterfinals could well be against Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, seeded fourth.
“Federer is a genius and Wawrinka is a top-10 singles player,” Paes pointed out, though he in partnership with Lukas Dlouhy had beaten them in straight sets in Canada, a fortnight ago.
Well, the Swiss may have to first get past special invitees, the defending champions Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu of Chile.
The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, are seeded No.1, while the Serbs, Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic are second. Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel are seeded third and figure in the third quarter. The Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Tommy Robredo are seeded No.6, and figure in the top quarter.
Asked whether he was hungry to win a better medal than the singles bronze that he had won in Atalanta in 1996, Paes, competing in his fifth Olympics, said that the media would run out of pages to write, if he started answering the question.
Mahesh practised for an additional hour with Sunitha Rao as Sania Mirza had not reached yet.
Sania’s path is difficult
In fact, Sania has a tough draw, as she runs into the seventh seed and Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in the second round, if she gets past Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.
Even in doubles, Sania and Sunitha are likely to meet the top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina, if they beat Tatiana Golovin and Pauline Parmentier of France in the first round.
“We are here to win the tournament, and the draw does not matter, or who we play first”, said Bhupathi, who had a snide remark at the assembled Indian media by saying that only five per cent of them believed that the Indian pair could actually win an Olympic medal.
“We are still capable of winning matches. People say that we are over the hill. I don’t see any hill in front. We are playing top quality tennis”, he said.
“There are some great doubles teams playing each other in the first round. We are lucky to be seeded. They have to show some consistency, as it is the first time the singles ranking has been considered for doubles seeding. They don’t do that even in Grand Slams,” said Bhupathi, as he turned his ire on the authorities.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have different personalities, but the same goal.
Can they give us a lasting memory of their world class partnership? Only time will tell.
Source:the HIndu
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Beijing Olympic torch nears Everest peak -Xinhua
EVEREST BASE CAMP, China, May 8 (Reuters) - A team of climbers taking the Beijing Olympic flame up Mount Everest is now just 48 metres short of the 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) peak, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
State television showed live footage of a team of mainly ethnic Tibetan climbers scaling Everest, known in Chinese as Mount Qomolangma.
Climbers were expected to reach the top by about 0100 GMT, state television reported.
Heavy snowfalls over the weekend had delayed China's crowning moment, destroying routes fixed earlier by climbers and forcing repairs to mountain-side camps.
But as a second day of relative calm enveloped Everest on Tuesday, organisers lifted a veil of silence shrouding the climb, buoying hopes of a renewed push to the summit.
The mountaineering team's spokesman said that 31 Chinese climbers, 22 of them ethnic Tibetan, were fixing routes and repairing camps for the final assault.
The Everest flame is separate from the main Olympic torch that arrived in mainland China on Sunday after a protest-marred international relay that embarrassed officials and sparked a wave of nationalistic fervour at home.
The anti-Chinese demonstrations that disrupted the international stretch of the longest torch relay in Olympic history were triggered by Tibetan riots and China's immediate crackdown. (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, David Gray, and Mark Chisolm, Writing by Benjamin Kang Lim; Editing by Ken Wills and Valerie Lee) (Take a look at the Countdown to Beijing blog at http://blogs.reuters.com/china)
Sport
source :Reuters
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State television showed live footage of a team of mainly ethnic Tibetan climbers scaling Everest, known in Chinese as Mount Qomolangma.
Climbers were expected to reach the top by about 0100 GMT, state television reported.
Heavy snowfalls over the weekend had delayed China's crowning moment, destroying routes fixed earlier by climbers and forcing repairs to mountain-side camps.
But as a second day of relative calm enveloped Everest on Tuesday, organisers lifted a veil of silence shrouding the climb, buoying hopes of a renewed push to the summit.
The mountaineering team's spokesman said that 31 Chinese climbers, 22 of them ethnic Tibetan, were fixing routes and repairing camps for the final assault.
The Everest flame is separate from the main Olympic torch that arrived in mainland China on Sunday after a protest-marred international relay that embarrassed officials and sparked a wave of nationalistic fervour at home.
The anti-Chinese demonstrations that disrupted the international stretch of the longest torch relay in Olympic history were triggered by Tibetan riots and China's immediate crackdown. (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, David Gray, and Mark Chisolm, Writing by Benjamin Kang Lim; Editing by Ken Wills and Valerie Lee) (Take a look at the Countdown to Beijing blog at http://blogs.reuters.com/china)
Sport
source :Reuters
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