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US East Coast Travelogue 2 - New York. Lights, Camera, Action!! New York!! City of Dreams, money, power, towers, icons, diversity, languages, cultures!! No matter what corner of world you are but you must have heard about New York. City is always in news for one reason or another. Shared are my experiences from visit to New York! It’s been 2 weeks but it feels as if we were there yesterday. We started our journey to New York from Los Angeles, the Hollywood city. It took 5 hrs 30 mins of flight time to reach JFK, i was a bit anxious about how would we manage travel that night after a long day flight, Caption of flight announced our landing and wished everyone on-board a happy journey.. exactly what we were there for. Excitement in crowd was palpable, it was long weekend in US and most of passengers might have come for vacation is what i felt. We picked our bags from airport and our tour guide was ready to pick us up, starting our journey from JFK itself. Me and ...

Indian Olympic Sports Updates | Week June 24, 2017 Badminton Updates - Kidambi Srikanth won Indonesia Badminton Championship on June 18, 2017. He out-classed 47th ranked Kazumasa Sakai by 21-11, 21-19 in 37 mins to lift the Super Series title, making it his 3rd one. Srikanth was trailing behind by 6-11 points but then bounced back to make it equal by 13-13 and thats what put the pressure on Sakai, ultimately loosing match to Srikanth. Srikanth has won $75000 has prize money in tournament, also Badminton Association of India announced reward of Rs 5 Lakhs to Srikanth. HS Prannoy had lost to Kazumasa Sakai in semi-finals of Indonesia open, else it would have been an Indian vs Indian match in finals of Indonesia Open. Australian Super Series Badminton Updates - Parupalli Kashyap, Siril Verma and Ruthvika Gadde have made to main draw of Australian Open beating their opponents. They had to win 2 matches each in qualifying rounds to enter into main draw. In th...

Basic Rules of Badminton | India At Olympics Badminton can be played in Singles, Doubles, Mixed Doubles category. Singles where 2 players play the match, doubles where a pair of players play with other pair meaning 2 men play against 2 men or 2 women play against 2 women. Mixed Doubles, meaning 1 man and 1 woman play against 1 man and 1 woman. Before any match start, coin is tossed to decide who will serve first in first game and in subsequent games winner of previous game serves first. Badminton court is like what is shown here. Players stand in right service court when his/her score is even and in left side when score is odd. For Singles match, shuttle should not fall out of 'Side line for Singles' and for Doubles match, out of 'Side Line for Doubles' as marked in below picture. In Badminton match, unlike the sets in Tennis, there are games and each one is of 21 points, so whoever wins 21 points first wins that Game and not match. If you want to wi...

Indian Hockey, Badminton, Tennis, Chess, Athletics Updates - Week June 17, 2017 Indonesia Open Badminton Updates-  B Sai Praneeth has won Thailand Open Championship after Singapore open.. to become new poster boy of Indian Badminton!! Currently standing at no 15 in world men ranking!! Prime Minister Narendra Modi Congratulated him for his achievements! Sai Praneeth has suffered loss in 1st round of Indonesia Open loosing out by  21-13, 21-18. Saina Nehwal the bronze Olympic medalist winner for India, won first round heroically against Thailands’ Intanon by 17-21, 21-18, 21-12, but could not make it through 2nd round losing out by 5-21, 21-6, 16-21. Saina had could not reach the finals of Thailand Open as well. She would be participating in US open for first time.  Silver girl of Badminton PV Sindhu has had same fate as Saina in Indonesia open, won first round in straight 21-12, 21-19 and lost 2nd round by 21-15, 12-21, 18-21. Both the pla...

US East Coast Travelogue 1 - Shopping and Check-ins, Los Angeles!! Think of US and images that will flash in your mind will be of Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Washington DC, Hollywood and Niagara falls.. places all tourists want to visit and all of these, are on the East Coast of US except Hollywood. Thanks to my company deputation i was on the west coast, famous names on this coast are Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple. I am sure you will be hardly interested in visiting these ones like me.. And even if you are, entry is not that easy. These are the most talented places on earth and you need to be wonder kid to go there. As i was not the one... i decided to visit the east coast like the rest of cattle class. I had spent two and half years in US and urge of visiting these iconic places was increasing month after month. So both of us, my wife and me started a watch for good time to visit these places. Initially we thought of going on our own, mapping out different des...

11/6/2017 Week - Athletics, Chess, Archery and Other Indian sports update Altibox Norway Chess Championship Five time world champion Viswanathan Anand is having disappointing run in Altibox Norway Chess championship so far. Anand has 2 defeats and 1 draw to his share so far, he lost in 4th round to Anish Girl of Netherland. Before this he had a draw with Karjanik and a loss to Russian Vladimir Kramnik. For more details refer  FP Sports Lovlina Borgohain wins Bronze medal in President's Cup Lovlina Borgohain won Bronze medal in President cup in Kazakhstan and was the only boxer to have registered win in tournament. Siwi Bora and Devanshu Jaiswal lost their matches in women's and men's quarterfinals against Kazakh boxers. There are total 150 boxers playing to achieve top honors. For more details refer IE Sports Archery World Cup, Antalya India's Compounding pair Abhishek Verma and Divya Dahal won bronze medal in Archery world cup sta...

Indian Railway's Tejas representing - Aspirations and Dreams of Millions! Current poster boy of Indian Railways - Tejas Trains, max speed of 180 km/hr, equipped 360 degree rotating and inclining seats, glass windows giving panoramic view of sides and rooftop, providing all AC coaches in train, 9-inch LED screen back of every seat, coffee vending machines, vacuum bio toilets, touch free water taps in toilets, many more features... making it an airplane on the wheels for Indian public.  Tejas trains, expresses the aspirations of new middle class- comprising millions in India, a fastest growing economy and IT engine of the world. India has lifted millions out of poverty during last 2 decades in its journey to become worlds 5th largest economy and so has, it lifted the ambitions of millions of its people. Indians today wants fly high, run faster and swim deeper. Indian domestic air traffic growth is the fastest on earth today, opening up to outer world where investm...

Rohan Bopanna wins French Open Grand Slam, creating history for Indian Tennis!! Tennis: French Open Tennis Championship 8/6/2017 would be marked as historic day for Indian Tennis as Rohan Bopanna became the 4th Indian to win grand slam trophy. French open is the premier clay court tournament and is considered among the four most prestigious tournaments in the world. Before Rohan, its the legend Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza who have got the prestigious title.  Rohan participated in mixed doubles with Canadian partner G Dabrowski, beating India's own Sania Mirza in Quarter Finals to reach semis. Pair won against A Hlavackova and E. Roger-Vasselin in Semi-Finals in 7-5, 6-3 sets. Rohan and Gabriela, lost the first set to R. Farah and A. Gronfeld with 2-6 points but made strong comeback and won with 6-2 and 12-10 in next 2 sets. 37 year old Rohan changed strategy to understand clay court better, in his own words  " I wasn’t serving and volley...