Japan beat Qatar 3-1 in the first round of Group D in the Hangzhou Asian Games men’s football competitions here. Despite being composed mostly of college players, the Japanese side is still a strong title contender, reports Xinhua.
Hriday to represent India in dressage
India has a rich heritage of equestrian sport and the 25-year-old, Hriday Chheda is all set to make his country proud at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Asian Games: China’s Liren starts favourite
Quarterfinalists at the recently-concluded FIDE World Cup in Baku, India’s Vidit Santosh Gujarathi and Arjun Erigaisi will get into action in the men’s individual competition as chess returns to the Asian Games
Poland to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine over grain row
Poland has announced that it will no longer supply weapons to Ukraine as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates. Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Wednesday said that it would instead focus on arming itself with more modern weapons, the BBC reported.
Asian Games: Xi to attend opening ceremony
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou on September 23, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Nestle unlawfully bottled spring water for over 100 years: US
he water regulator of the US state of California has said that the beverage corporate giant Nestle had illegally diverted and bottled water from mountain springs for over 100 years, the media reported.
Bangladesh records 21 dengue deaths
Bangladesh has registered 21 dengue fatalities, highest in a single day this year, the Health Ministry said. Bangladesh reported 3,015 new dengue cases and 21 new deaths on Wednesday, taking the tally to 176,810
Nepal PM Pushpa to visit China this week
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will visit China at the invitation of Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang from September 23-30, this year, according to the release from Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
IndiGo & British Airways sign codeshare agreement
IndiGo and international carrier, British Airways have signed a codeshare agreement to further boost connections between India and the UK. Through this partnership – which sees British Airways add its code onto a couple of destinations across IndiGo’s network
Tesla exploring to build battery storage factory in India
Elon Musk-run Tesla is reportedly planning to build a factory for battery storage in India and has submitted a proposal for the same to the government. According to a report in Reuters, citing sources, the electric car-maker proposed supporting the country’s battery storage
