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Written by admin on 22 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 22 – India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi overcame the first set challenge from the wildcard pair of the UAE’s Mahmoud-Nader Al Baloushi and Kuwait’s Abdullah Magdas to advance in the doubles quarterfinals of the $1,619,500 Dubai Tennis Championships here Monday.
The third-seeded Indo-Belarussian pair beat Al Baloushi and Magdas 7-5, 6-0 in 56 minutes.
They next play the winner of the match between Swede Simon Aspelin and Australian Paul Hanley and Serbians Novak Djokovic and Dusan Vemic.
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Written by admin on 19 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 19 – International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat Friday congratulated India on finishing as No.1 team in the Test Championship table following their innings victory over South Africa in the Kolkata Test.
South Africa finished in second position at the cut-off date of April 1 in the ICC Test Championship. India, after losing the first Test at Nagpur, needed to win the second at Kolkata’s Eden Garden to retain the top postion in Tests. They won, with just nine balls to spare, in a thrilling conquest Thursday.
It is also the first time in seven years that Australia have not finished the season as the number-one Test-playing side in the world.
‘I have written to both the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Cricket South Africa (CSA), congratulating them on an outstanding series. The final Test in Kolkata again underlined the unique attraction of Test match cricket, which is the pinnacle of our great sport,’ Lorgat said Friday.
‘This titanic struggle follows on similarly captivating Test matches in Cardiff, Centurion, Cape Town, Sydney, Perth and Dunedin and demonstrates once again why Test match cricket captivates broadcasters, media, spectators and television viewers across the globe,: he said in his message.
‘Test cricket continues from strength to strength and I believe that the competitiveness of the sort we witnessed in Kolkata underlines that belief. Congratulations to Mahendra Singh Dhoni and India on their remarkable achievement,’ he said.
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Written by admin on 19 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 19 – Indian opener Virender Sehwag dislodged his batting partner Gautam Gambhir from the top of the International Cricket Council’s Test rankings for batsmen to take the number one spot.
Sehwag, who struck back-to-back centuries in the just concluded two-match Test series against South Africa, jumped five places for the No.1 position. Sehwag shot up 52 rating points.
Gambhir’s lacklustre form in the series against South Africa saw him drop four places to fifth position.
Another big mover was Hashim Amla, who climbed eight places to occupy the second position. Amla had a phenomenal series against India, scoring 490 runs with two centuries and one double-hundred and getting out only once. The South African middle order batsman, who was the man of the series, is 21 rating points behind Sehwag.
Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawerdena and Kumar Sangakkara were pushed to third and fourth places.
In the bowling charts, Harbhajan Singh after his spectacular performance in the second Test at Eden Garden, where he claimed eight wickets, jumped five places to seventh position.
South African Dale Steyn maintained his top position with a stellar show in the first Test in Nagpur where he got 10 wickets.
Australian Mitchell Johnson and Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif are placed second and third.
India’s Zaheer Khan remained at sixth position.
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Written by admin on 19 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 19 – Gulf-based carrier Emirates will launch its non-stop services between Dubai and Tokyo March 28 followed by flights to Amsterdam, Prague and Madrid.
‘Tokyo is the first of a number of exciting route launches in 2010 for Emirates. After Tokyo’s March 28 launch, we will also start similar services from Dubai to Amsterdam starting May 1, Prague July 1 and to Madrid from Aug 1,’ Emirates’ senior vice president for commercial operations Richard Jewsbury said in a statement Friday.
The airline will have five flights a week on Dubai-Tokyo route. The airline already flies daily non-stop from Dubai to another Japanese city, Osaka.
According to the airline, there are over 3,000 Japanese nationals living in Dubai. ‘The new and the existing Emirates route will offer a seamless connection between the two cities and for passengers from Japan, the routes will open up the Emirates network on six continents via Dubai,’ Jewsbury said.
The airline have direct non-stop flights from Dubai to Tokyo following revised air services agreement between UAE and Japan. The airline is currently holding road shows in Tokyo.
The airline said its new route will also strengthen the long standing partnership between Emirates and Japan Airlines, with code sharing on the Narita service, in addition to the existing code share on Emirates’ Osaka flights.
The airlines has carried over 1.3 million people and 60,000 tonnes of cargo on its flights to Japan since 2002. The airline now expects the volume to grow further.
Trade between Japan and the UAE has grown by 300 percent to over $57 billion in 2008 from $14.5 billion in 2002, the year Emirates first began its flights to Osaka.
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Written by admin on 18 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 18 – A strong recovery in domestic demand during the last three quarters of 2009 helped India reclaim by the year-end its position as leading gold purchaser, having bought a total of 480 tonnes during the year.
According to data released by the World Gold Council, even though India retained the top slot, the consumption was still 33 percent lower than the 2008 level of 712.6 tonnes.
‘Following on from an extremely weak first quarter, the Indian market enjoyed a solid recovery over the remainder of 2009. Over the year as a whole, tonnage off-take totalled 480 tonnes, down 33 percent from 712.6 tonnes in 2008,’ said a statement from the World Gold Council.
‘Nevertheless, India held onto its position as the world’s largest gold consuming nation,’ it added.
The total consumption was helped particularly in the last quarter of the year owing to the start of the wedding and festive seasons, including Diwali.
‘The announcement of a 200 tonne purchase by the Reserve Bank of India played a key role in underpinning sentiment and gold price expectations, reinforcing the perception that gold is reliable and safe,’ the council said.
As per the report, the demand was also driven by people in rural areas, who were holding their savings in cash deposits, and from non-resident Indians coming home for their winter vacation.
‘In turn, the increase in activity saw retailers start to rebuild their inventories, reversing some of the run-down that occurred earlier in the year,’ the report said.
China was second among the top gold consumers, with total consumption for the region including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan being 461.9 tonnes.
Gold, which saw keen interest from investment funds and analysts alike during the tumultuous period of the financial crisis, will according to the council continue to be looked at as a safe avenue of investment.
‘We expect investor support for gold in 2010 to remain solid. The search by investors and asset managers for portfolio diversification is expected to continue,’ the council said in its outlook for 2010.
‘On a more tactical note, the high levels of economic, inflation and exchange rate uncertainty are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. As global economic conditions improve, jewellery and industrial demand are likely to continue to recover.’
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Written by admin on 16 February 2010
Dubai, Feb 16 – India’s Sania Mirza, who lost in the singles first round, failed to clear the first hurdle in the doubles as well as she and her Spanish partner Virginia Ruano Pacual went down in straight sets to Jie Zheng of China and Chan Yung-jan of Chinese Taipei in the $2 million Dubai Tennis Championships here Tuesday.
Sania and Pascual, seeded seventh, lost 3-6, 3-6.
Sania Monday had made her fourth first round exit in the five singles outings this season.
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