Hyderabad, June 21st: 19-year-old ace shuttler Saina Nehwal created history by winning the Super Series tournament in the Indonesian Open final in Jakarta on Sunday. Saina is the first Indian women to win the tournament. She bagged the same by defeating world No: 3 Lin Wang of China by scoring 12-21, 21-18, 21-9. The first game was little bit shaky and the Indian ace rallied her way back in second game. Leveled 17-17, Saina went on to pocket the game 21-18.
In the decider, the Hyderabadi was at her attacking best. After moving neck and neck till 7-7, Saina went berserk by engaging her rival in soft dribble and net play to widen the gap at 15-9 before reeling off six straight points to seal her place in history. Speaking to the media persons here on Sunday Saina felt very happy with the win and said that she was very confident in achieving the future goals.
This is Saina’s third major victory after winning the 2006 Philippines Open and the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix in September. She was also crowned the 2008 World Juniors champion in Pune. Crediting Saina’s win as the biggest achievement in her career, national coach Pullela Gopichand said this feat will boost badminton in India.
Kakinada, June 20th: Three persons were arrested by Kakinada rural police in connection with extraction of money by imitating as a special police party attached to the East Godavari police. An amount of Rs 20,000 was recovered from them. Two of the arrested are home guards attached to a reserve pol...
Kakinada, June 20: The much waited online grievance cell, e-parishkaram to solve people’s grievances will come into force from Monday in East Godavari district. The process said to be the first of its kind was developed in association with the National Informatics Center. The district collec...
Rajahmundry, June 22nd: The Badibata program taken up by the state government to enroll children who have crossed five years of age and also school dropouts for formal education turned to be successful in both East and West Godavari districts. In west Godavari, as many as 50, 352 children were ther...
Kakinada, June 22nd: e-parishkaram, the online grievance cell taken up by the authorities aiming to give quick response to the grievances put by the public started functioning in East Godavari on Monday. The program was conducted simultaneously at the district, revenue division and mandal levels. For...
Kakinada, June 22nd: For the cultivation of commercial crops, micro irrigation was given top priority in East Godavari. A program under AP Micro Irrigation Project (APMIP) will be taken up over 3,000 hectares at an estimated cost of Rs 15 crore in the year 2009-10. Under this program, drip irrigati...
Kakinada, June 22nd: The All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) will take to mass propagation against evils of dowry in rural areas. The organization nearly has 550 branches across the country and propagating message on evils of dowry to every nook and corner through its branches. According to t...
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