8/7/12
Hamid Ansari gets second term as Vice President
New Delhi: On expected
lines, UPA candidate Hamid Ansari on Tuesday won the race for Vice
President for the second time, beating NDA candidate Jaswant Singh with a
huge margin.
8/2/12
Indian origin girl killed, 36 others injured in US Megabus crash
LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS: A 25-year-old passenger who died in the crash of a double-decker Megabus in Illinois was from India traveling to central Missouri.
Aditi R. Avhad was headed to Columbia, Missouri, when the bus slammed into an interstate bridge support pillar on Thursday. Dozens were sent to hospitals with injuries. It's not clear how many remained hospitalized early Friday.
Illinois State Trooper Brad Lemarr said he didn't know where Avhad was seated on the bus, which was traveling between Chicago and Kansas City. The city in which she lived was also not immediately known.
Some hospital officials said early Friday they still were treating patients, though none were reporting any of the injuries to be life-threatening.
Troopers had reported that 38 people were taken to hospitals for injuries.
Saina Nehwal loses in semis, still in race for bronze
india's Saina Nehwal went down to world champion Wang Yihan in the women's singles semi-finals of the London Olympics badminton event in London on Friday. The match lasted 42 min, the longest rally was 34 strokes. Saina, the first Indian shuttler to reach the Olympics
In their previous five encounters, Saina had never been able to blow her away. The two last met in January this year at the Malaysian Open where Saina lost 15-21, 16-21. In two of the three encounters in 2011, Saina managed to stretch Wang to three sets but could never alter the end result.
With already 21 individual titles to her name, Wang is known in the badminton circuit for not giving an inch to her opponents. Nehwal has yet to figure how to unravel that particular riddle.
Saina was realistic about her chances in the semis without sounding overtly confident.
"It's very, very difficult as the Chinese are strong opponents. We will both be under the pressure of expectations but I am not thinking about all that."
I was thinking too hard" said Saina Nehwal after she was beaten in straight games by world number one Wang Yihan in the women's singles semifinals at the London Olympics on Friday.
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