News

Hyderabad, May 15 (Ians) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday announced Rs 2.5 crore for 16-year-old Uppala Praneeth who has been conferred grandmaster title by World Chess Federation.

The Chief Minister expressed his delight that Praneeth gained international fame in chess at a very young age.

Kcr, as Rao is popularly known, called Praneeth and his parents to the Secretariat on Monday and blessed the grandmaster. He congratulated Praneeth’s parents who worked hard and trained him well. The Chief Minister said that Praneeth’s passion and hard work made him a Grandmaster.

He hoped Praneeth will reach more heights and bring laurels and fame to Telangana state and also to India in the future.

On this occasion, the Chief Minister announced Rs 2.5 crore to Praneeth to undergo training and for other expenses.

He said that Praneeth’s rise as a grand master is proof that the state government is...

Bangkok, Jan 20 (Ians) India's Hs Prannoy battled pain in his ribs and a potential dislocation on his left shoulder to stun Indonesia's world number seven Jonathan Christie in the first round of the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 badminton tournament on Wednesday.

Prannoy recovered from a game down to beat sixth seed Christie 18-21 21-16 23-21 in a match that lasted an hour and 15 minutes.

Prannoy had been diagnosed with Covid-19 two months ago and said after the match that the pain in his rib cage was due to a muscle strain caused by coughing continuously. The shoulder pain came from a fall during a rally that gave Christie match point. However, he fought back from that position and went all the way to win the match.

"I haven't practised the last five days. The rib has been paining pretty badly post-Covid, but we've been trying all sorts of things (to...

Bangkok, Jan 20 (Ians) Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth has been withdrawn from the Thailand Open after testing positive for the Coronavirus, the Badminton World Federation (Bwf) has informed.

Praneeth's result came on Monday and he will now be in the hospital for at least 10 days.

"Bwf can confirm India player Sai Praneeth B. has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been withdrawn from the Toyota Thailand Open," the Bwf statement on Tuesday evening said.

The world number 14 thereby missed his first-round match against Daren Liew from Malaysia who has now been given a walkover.

The badminton body further informed that Kidambi Srikanth has also been withdrawn from the tournament and is in quarantine due to his close contact with Praneeth.

"In line with Bwf protocols, Kidambi has been withdrawn from the Toyota Thailand Open and is in strict self-quarantine. However, Kidambi tested negative on Monday's test and has returned...

So far, the general casting process when it comes to live-action Spider-Man movies is to hire a handsome, likeable, down to earth and talented actor that’s in impressive physical shape, throw a pair of glasses on them and have everybody else call them a geek. The approach has definitely worked wonders so far, with the five blockbusters focused on the iconic superhero having earned close to $6 billion at the box office.

Most fans are widely expecting Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland to share the screen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s upcoming third outing for the latter’s Peter Parker, and there’s no doubt going to be a lot of backlash if it doesn’t end up happening given that everyone has their hearts set on the Holy Trinity of Spideys teaming up. At the very least, we want to see them to recreate the ‘Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man’ meme.