- Andhra Pradesh: Telangana Congress leaders to write to party chief Sonia urging her to take an early decision on Telangana issue
- Assam: Asom Gana Parishad vice-president Apurba Kumar Bhattacharya resigns from the party and joins Congress
- Bihar: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav says his 22 MLAs will vote against the JD-U govt in the trust vote tomorrow
- Chennai: DMDK MLAs meet TN Congress chief Gnanadesikan, seek support for DMDK candidate Elangovan in RS polls
- Delhi: DU colleges including SRCC, Hans Raj, Kirori Mal and Ramjas hike fees for various courses from this academic year
- Gujarat: I-T sleuths raid 37 premises of 2 builder groups in Ahmedabad, unearth tax evasion to the tune of Rs 20 crore
- Haryana: Bhari baarish se Pong aur Bhakra baandh, jo Punjab aur Haryana mein kheti ke liye paani dete hain, mein jal star badha
- Himachal Pradesh: Heavy rainfall raises water level in Pong and Bhakra dams which meet irrigation requirements of Punjab and Haryana
- Jammu and Kashmir: People with vested interests trying to disrupt peace and harmony in JK, says CM Omar Abdullah during a function in Leh
- Karnataka: Bangalore will get more funds in new budget for 2013-14 fiscal to meet its infrastructure needs, says CM Siddaramaiah
- Kerala: Kochi will host country meeting of the World Economic Forum November 8-9 this year, says chief minister Oommen Chandy
- Kolkata: Mrinal Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee ask people to join a protest march against atrocities on women in Kolkata June 21
- Madhya Pradesh: Control room set up for information about people from MP stranded in Uttarakhand, numbers 07552556422, 09926769808
- Maharashtra: ACB, I-T sleuths raid home of Tanaji Bhoite, chairman of Maratha Education Society in Jalgaon, over illegal assets
- Mumbai: Traffic on Harbour Line from Chembur to CST disrupted for 2 hours after a pantograph wire snapped near Chembur station
- Northeast: Manipur deputy chief minister Gaikhangam expresses concern over increase in militant organisations in the state
- Odisha: Jagannath temple administration to set up FM radio station to spread the teachings of Lord Jagannath, say officials
- Punjab: Heavy rainfall raises water level in Pong and Bhakra dams which meet irrigation requirements of Punjab and Haryana
- Rajasthan: 23 peacocks die after eating suspected poisonous foodgrain at Nagar fort and forest area in Barwala, say police
- Tamil Nadu: DMDK MLAs meet TN Congress chief Gnanadesikan, seek support for DMDK candidate Elangovan in RS polls
- UP East: VHP refutes media reports that Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya this month
- UP West: VHP refutes media reports that Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya this month
- West Bengal: Mrinal Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee ask people to join a protest march against atrocities on women in Kolkata June 21
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Rogers Cup: Sania , Paes move up in quarter-finals
 IANS Montreal/Toronto, Aug 11: India's Sania Mirza and Leander Paes have moved into the quarter-finals with their respective partners whereas their compatriots Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna lost their pre-quarterfinal match at the Rogers Cup tennis doubles. Sania and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands beat Slovak duo Dominika Cibulkova and Daniela Hantochova 6-2, 6-3, in an hour and nine minutes. Both the sets ran more or less on similar lines as the Indo-US pair had an early break in the first set to go 3-1 up but they were broken back only to find their opponents drop their service twice more to lose the set rather tamely. In a replay of the first set, Sania and Mattek-Sands jumped to a 3-1 lead in the second, but dropped their serve again, and again they broke back to go 4-2 up. They had a match point in the sixth game, but failed to clinch it and lost the game before taking the set and the match 6-3 on their serve. Sania and Mattek-Sands beat German Julia Goerges and her Czech Kveta Peschke 7-6 (1) and 6-3 in the first round Thursday. The Indo-American pair, seeded seventh, needed a shade less than an hour and half to subdue Goerges and Peschke after a tough first-set tie-break. In the men's doubles in Toronto, fifth seeds Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgewn Melzer received a walk-over from Canadian Milos Raonic and Serb Viktor Troicki and the Indo-Austrian pair is through to the quarterfinals without entering the court as they had a first-round bye. Paes and Melzer will Saturday take on third-seeded Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, who beat Mexican Santiago Gonzalez and American Scott Lipsky 7-5, 7-5. Sixth seeds Bhupathi and Bopanna, who also got a bye in their first round match, were beaten by unseeded Australian Paul Hanley and Serb Nenad Zimonjic in straight sets, 4-6, 6-7 (6) Friday. Hanley and Zimonjic, who in the first round had beaten Carlos Berlocq of Argentina and Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 7-5, will take on in the quarter-finals second-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan who beat Croat Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo of Brazil 7-5, 6-2. © 2013 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. For news, views and gossips, follow @IANSLIVE at Twitter. Find us on Facebook too! Update: 11-August-2012 Comments: [0] Add your comment |
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