
was heartbreak for Saina Nehwal and all her fans as the Indian badminton ace lost the women's singles final to Spanish top seed and title holder Carolina Marin to settle for the silver at the World Championships on Sunday....

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday arrived in the United Arab Emirates, in the first prime ministerial visit to the Gulf nation after three decades. ...
At least 40 militants of proscribed groups were killed in military airstrikes in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Sunday, a media report said....

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will attend a joint rally of the JD-U, RJD, Congress and NCP here on August 30, RJD leader Lalu Prasad said on Sunday....

The importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE, the first after Indira Gandhi's in 1981, can be gauged from the Gulf nation's place in India's energy security as the sixth largest import-source of crude oil in 2014-15....
The Haryana government has expanded the ambit of inquiry into the issuance of licences for housing colonies on prime land in Haryana's Gurgaon city, officials said here on Sunday....
An Indonesian airliner with 54 people onboard lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote eastern region of Papua, the nation's search and rescue agency said. ...

Harvir Singh feels the pressure of winning the World Badminton Championships got to his daughter Saina Nehwal as she lost the women's singles final in straight games to Spain's Carolina Marin in Jakarta on Sunday....
Prisons may not be providing the ideal setting for the making of a poet-cum-writer but a middle-aged woman lodged in a Kerala prison on charges of drugs pedalling is penning her thoughts to good use....
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit is of "strategic importance" to the UAE, Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in remarks published on Sunday....