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Indian team members mob Dhakshineswar Suresh after beating Guy Den Ouden of Team Netherlands. (Getty Images for ITF) BENGALURU: Dhakshineswar Suresh’s sledgehammer serve drove India to a shock 3-2 win over fancied Netherlands at the SM Krishna Tennis Stadium, the lanky 25-year-old completing a perfect three-from-three in the opening round of the Davis Cup World…
NAGPUR:A baby born to an unwed mother in Nagpur on Feb 10, 1985, is abandoned at a city shelter within three days of his birth and adopted a month later by a Dutch couple visiting Mumbai. The infant has a protected, affluent upbringing in the Netherlands that sets him up for a fulfilling life and…
NEW DELHI: Two Tata Steel subsidiaries were sued for $1.6 billion by an NGO in the Netherlands for alleged adverse health and environmental impacts from its steel plant in the Dutch village of Velsen-Noord.In a regulatory filing, Tata Steel said that Stichting Frisse Wind.nu (SFW) filed a case before a court in North Holland against…
Anish Giri and R Praggnanandhaa (FIDE Photo) NEW DELHI: When Grandmaster R Vaishali defended her FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss crown last September, it was a wish that her younger brother R Praggnanandhaa would join her at the Candidates 2026 journey.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The marquee tournament, scheduled from March 28…
Anish Giri at the Global Chess League (GCL Photo) NEW DELHI: Coming into the second edition of the Global Chess League (GCL) last year in October, the current Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri had a turbulent time. In the span of one month, his ratings dropped drastically from 2746 to 2724.To put things into perspective,…
Dutch Grandmaster (GM) Anish Giri has addressed recent criticism of the FIDE World Cup conditions in Goa, dismissing certain claims as exaggerated and unfounded.The controversy began when Ian Nepomniachtchi, a two-time world championship contender, expressed dissatisfaction after his early elimination in the second round by Indian grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh.“One of those places that you won’t…
The Netherlands’ government decided to take control of chipmaker Nexperia last month. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, this decision was prompted by concerns that the company’s former CEO was preparing to dismantle European operations and move production to China. The report cited four government sources in The Hague indicating that Zhang…
FILE — President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. . (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) In a move that highlights the geopolitical tightrope countries are walking in the US-China battle for technological supremacy, the Dutch government has seized control of a Chinese-owned chip…
NEW DELHI: A senior executive from Dutch semiconductor machinery company ASML has said that EU is inaccessible to European companies, while it is getting time and patient hearing from the Indian govt.Speaking at a ‘Competitive Europe summit in Brussels’, organised by digital platform Politico, Frank Heemskerk, executive VP of global public affairs at ASML, said…
File photo: The Netherlands-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht, as seen off Delfzijl, the Netherlands. (Picture credit: AP) Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a missile strike on the Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht in the Gulf of Aden, marking one of their most serious assaults on shipping outside the Red Sea since November 2023.The attack occurred…
