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India’s P V Sindhu (R), pictured here with her opponent Carolina Marin, celebrates after winning women’s singles final of the 'Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2017 tournament', in New Delhi India's Olympic 2016 silver medallist   P.V. Sindhu   overcame her Rio Games conqueror Carolina Marin of Spain in straight games to win her maiden India Open Superseries badminton title at a packed Siri Fort Sports Complex here on Sunday. The match-up between Sindhu and Marin was a repeat of the 2016 Rio Olympic final which saw the Spaniard taking away the gold medal in a hard-fought encounter. But in front of her home fans here, third seed Sindhu posted a 21-19, 21-16 triumph in 46 minutes to give another display of her fast-rising career. Since the Rio final, it was the second contest between the two shuttlers and the 21-year-old Hyderabadi has won both. With this win, Sindhu also equalised 5-5 in career meetings against the two-time reigning world champion. The Spanish top seed...

The layoffs represent slightly less than 12 per cent of ING's 52,000 workforce ING Groep plans to shed 7,000 jobs and invest heavily in its digital platforms to achieve annual savings of 900 million euros ($1 billion) by 2021, the Netherlands' largest financial services company said on Monday. The layoffs represent slightly less than 12 per cent of   ING 's 52,000 workforce because nearly 1,000 are expected to come at suppliers rather than the company itself. The job losses are the heaviest since 2009, when ING was forced to restructure and spin off its insurance activities after receiving a state bailout during the financial crisis. Although other large banks have announced mass layoffs at branch offices in the past year to boost profitability, ING said the job cuts were partly to combine technology platforms and risk control centres as well to help it to contend with regulatory burdens and low interest rates. Read More

Scientists have discovered a new species of unusual ‘sail-backed’  Dinosaur in Spain  which inhabited the Iberian landmass about 125 million years ago. Researchers from National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Spain described the species Morelladon beltrani. The specimen is a partial skeleton mainly composed of dorsal and sacral vertebrae and pelvic bones, researchers said. Morelladon is a medium-sized styracosternan ornithopod of around 6 meters long and 2.5 meters high, similar in body length and proportions to its relative Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis. The most conspicuous feature of this new, relatively gracile ornithopod is the presence of tall neural spines on dorsal vertebrae, which the researchers suggest was possibly a 'sail’ used for thermoregulation, or as a storage place for fat to be used during periods of low food supply. Read More News :  National Herald case  |  Shah Rukh Khan  |  Budget 2016   | Chennai floods 2...