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Hangzhou: The Indian women's hockey team started off their Asian Games 2023 campaign with a win over Singapore by 13-0 in their Pool A match on Wednesday. The seventh-ranked India has started off their campaign with a victory that saw them dominate Singapore, the world's 34-ranked side for the entire game.

Roshibina Devi qualified for the semi-finals in the Women's 60 kg Wushu (Sanda) to assure India of another medal in the Asian Games, here on Monday.

Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! The basketball court will be buzzing with excitement as both the men's and women's 3x3 teams take the spotlight. The women's team will be facing Uzbekistan in a round-robin Pool A match, and the men's team will go head-to-head with Malaysia in Pool C. Cricket enthusiasts can look forward to the women's gold medal match where India will be playing against Sri Lanka.

Manika Batra lost both her matches, including the deciding fifth singles, as the Indian women's table tennis team was eliminated from the Asian Games following their 2-3 defeat against Thailand in the pre-quarterfinals on Sunday. World No. 39 Batra first lost the opening match to 104th ranked Thai player Orawan Paranang 0-3 with the Thai player dominating the proceeding for a 11-7, 11-1, 13-11 win in just 25 minutes. But 26-year-old Ayhika Mukherjee brought India on an even keel, winning the second game 3-1, defeating a much higher-ranked Suthasini Sawettabut 18-16, 11-7, 13-15, 11-9. Sutirtha Mukherjee then defeated Tamolwan Khetkhuan 3-2 (11-1, 9-11, 3-11, 11-7, 11-7) to give India a 2-1 lead before Paranang overcame a gritty Ayhika 3-2 (10-12, 11-4, 5-11, 11-4, 11-3) to keep her team's team's hopes alive. In the decider, Suthasini made up for her earlier defeat by beating Batra 3-1 (10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-6) to take her team into the quarterfinals.

China swept the first gold medals at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday in a statement of intent on day one of the region's answer to the Olympics. China claimed the first gold when Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping dominated the women's lightweight double sculls rowing to kick off a medal rush for the home nation. The Chinese pair finished in 7min 6.78sec, with Uzbekistan's Luizakhon Islamova and Malika Tagmativa taking silver — almost 10 seconds behind. «I am very excited as it's my first Asian Games,» said Zou, clutching her gold medal. «Stepping on to the podium today is a new starting point to help us prepare for next year's Paris Olympics,» said Qiu. Indonesia's Chelsea Corputty and Rahma Mutiara Putri won bronze. The hosts soon doubled up on the rowing lake as the men's lightweight double sculls gold was won by Fan Junjie and Sun Man, who finished five seconds clear of India's Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh. China won six of the seven golds at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre rowing venue on Sunday morning with only Hong Kong's Lam San-tung and Wong Wai-chun getting in on the party by winning the men's pairs. China's shooters also claimed the women's 10m team air rifle. The hosts' rip-roaring start to the 19th Asian Games, which end on October 8, continued as Sun Peiyuan won the first martial arts gold. Sun successfully defended his men's changquan wushu title from 2018, ahead of Indonesia's Edgar Xavier Marvelo with Macau's Song Chi-kuan third. «I'm so very excited, I'm lost for words,» said Sun. China won 10 of the first 11 golds in the early action on Sunday.King Qin makes splashSwimming is one of the highlights of the Games and will see seven finals later on Sunday at the Hangzhou Olympic Centre Aquatic Sports Arena,

Also read: Asian Games 2023: India enter women's cricket final, beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets Hong Kong, China moved to first place in the race, followed by Uzbekistan and India. The Indian pair crossed the 1500m mark with a time of 5:05.11s. Things started to heat up as the three nations fought closely and gave their all to take away the gold medal.

Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels :rocket: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! Esports enthusiasts can tune in at 8 AM to watch Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh Tikka compete in the FC Online Round of 32. The sailing and rowing events will continue from 8:20 AM and 8:30 AM, respectively, with multiple athletes in action. In hockey, India will be playing against Uzbekistan at 8:45 AM.

Rick Mathews’s big vacation this year was a 23-day jaunt across Europe and North Africa, during which he rode 131 roller coasters. “By the time I got home, I was like, why do I do this stupid hobby?" says Mathews, who is 36 and lives in Manassas, Va. That weariness quickly faded and he’s already talking about a return trip, because Megafobia—a wooden roller coaster in Wales—was closed during his visit.

NEW DELHI : The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Rajeev Raghuvanshi has granted permission to three National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL)- accredited private labs to conduct tests on cough syrups for exports. The private labs are: Bee Pharma Labs (Mumbai), Oasis Test House (Ahmedabad) and Shriram Institute for Industrial Research (Delhi). Prior to this, only government labs were authorised to test cough syrups for export.

India is the top destination for Chinese companies, but it falls to 11th place in the overall rank as the most attractive destination when other factors are considered. In an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report published this month, which indexes 80 investment destinations based on their appeal to Chinese investors, Singapore emerged the number one most attractive destination for Chinese companies to invest in. The China Going Global Investment Index uses a robust and quantitative approach to rank countries based on their attractiveness for Chinese outward direct investment (ODI). It is aimed at assisting Chinese firms narrow down the list of potential investment destinations, and also focus the minds of recipient governments on the issues that matter for Chinese investors. A total of 200 indicators were used to create the 2023 edition of the index.

Indigo Airlines to Tashkent with effect from September 6. A senior DGCA official informed that IndiGo has been given approval to operate between Delhi and Tashkent four days a week, as reported by ANI.

Uzbekistan and Oman in the US next month. The USMNT will take on the White Wolves of Uzbekistan on September 9 in St. Louis and Oman’s Gulf Samba three days later in Minnesota. They will meet Ghana and Germany in October.

Uzbekistan – has been maintaining stable economic growth and the re-election of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has provided tremendous opportunities for prospective Indian investors in the resource rich country. Several sectors in Uzbekistan are open to foreign investments and India is one of the sought after partners. Regular flights between Delhi and Tashkent could further contribute to growth momentum of the Uzbek economy.

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hockey team has been clubbed alongside arch-rivals Pakistan and will play the big-ticket match on September 30 in the Asian Games, while the women's side has South Korea and Malaysia among others in its pool. Placed in Group A, besides Pakistan, the Indian men have Asian Games champion Japan, Bangladesh, Singapore and Uzbekistan against whom they will begin their campaign on September 24, while the women' side, who are also in Pool A, will be up against Hong Kong and Singapore besides South Korea and Malaysia.

Bloomberg News purchased a sample of the syrup at a pharmacy in Baghdad in March and arranged a test by an independent Connecticut-based lab, Valisure LLC. Moreover, Bloomberg also reported the test results to the WHO as well as to Iraqi and Indian authorities last month. Last month, according to a test by Bloomberg News said that, the cold medication that was sold in Iraq is tainted with toxic chemicals.

Saudi Arabia announced that citizens of eight more countries will now be eligible for a visitor e-visa, state media reported. The e-visa will be available to visitors from Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, for leisure, business, and religious (Umrah only) travel, bringing the total number of eligible countries to 57, Xinhua news agency quoted the state media report as saying. The visitor e-visa is valid for an entire year, grants multiple entries, and permits a stay of up to 90 days. After launching the e-visa program in 2019, Saudi Arabia welcomed 93.5 million visits in 2022, a 93-per cent increase from 2021, registering a tourism expenditure of 185 billion Saudi Riyals ($49 billion). In 2022, Saudi Arabia decided to provide a visitor e-visa for holders of valid Schengen, British and US visas that have been used to enter these countries before arriving in Saudi Arabia and for permanent residents of the European Union, Gulf Arab countries, Britain and the US.

DGCA has approved IndiGo's plans to start flight services to Almaty in Kazakhstan. The country's largest airline by domestic market share has embarked on an ambitious international expansion.

Daily Mail. Olga Leontyeva, a postwoman from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was reportedly missing on July 26 and her body was found the next day in the elevator, the report said.

Riemann Labs, a manufacturer linked to cough syrup deaths in Cameroon, to stop manufacturing activities, said Reuters quoting the country's health ministry. Last month, the World Health Organization said a batch of cough and cold syrup sold in Cameroon under the brand name Naturcold contained extremely high levels of a toxic ingredient, the latest in a series of recent warnings about contaminated cough syrups.