![]() Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Srikanth K. and P. Kashyap are among the 14 Indian shuttlers who have advanced to the Singles pre-quarterfinals of the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. In the Women's Singles first round yesterday, top seed Saina defeated Yin Fun Lim of Malaysia, 21-17, 21-12, while third placed Sindhu eased past Ekta Kalia, 21-6, 21-12. In the Men's Singles, top seed Srikanth edged past Malaysian Kian Meng Tan, 18-21, 21-13, 22-20, while Kashyap beat Ankit Chhikara, 21-7, 21-14. Other Indians who have progressed to the last-16 include HS Prannoy, Sai Praneeth, PC Thulasi and Arundhati Pantawane. They will play their pre-quarterfinal matches today |
Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...

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