India’s Leander Paes won his second US Open and fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title here at the Flushing Meadows when he and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black beat Scot Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber in the final 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 late Thursday night at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Paes, incidentally, would be aiming for a double Grand Slam win, since he is also in the men’s doubles final, with Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy.
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India’s stand on not linking the Indo-US nuclear deal with nuclear tests may have been contradicted by US President George W Bush.

US based daily The Washington Post has revealed the contents of the ‘secret’ letter a day before the Nuclear Supplier Group is scheduled to meet over a waiver to India for nuclear trade.
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The Fight between Facebook and the makers of the game – Scrabble has come to an end finally with the later emerging as the winners.

The legal proceedings against the app had started in January when Mattel (the makers of the game) decided that Scrabulous was infringing on copyright and trademarks. It is believed Mattel wants to deploy its own version of Scrabble to the social networking world.

Facebook has decided to jump overboard and abandon the Facebook application ship before a court in India could push them. Which is more than a little odd, as usually you might expect it to wait for the legal ruling before taking the action.

Initially, the game was blocked in the US and Canada, but the ban appears to have spread worldwide with the exception of India.

Facebook today announced that it now has over 100 million ‘friends’ worldwide.

Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla  brothers have created a new application, Wordscraper, with circular tiles and a few new rules that they hope will withstand legal action. Scrabulous wasn’t banned in India because a lawsuit is in the works there and Facebook awaits the decision.

India is unlikely to raise fuel prices this week, a senior oil ministry official told reporters, despite pressure from oil companies which are losing millions of dollars a day due to surging crude prices.

Finally, ‘Air Rifle Mr. Gold’ Abhinav Bindra has turned the tables upon India’s Olympian sporting misery outside cricket.

He shot his way into history by winning 10 meter Air Rifle event at Beijing. This is India’s first individual gold in 112 years of modern Olympics, in which India is participating at least since 1900.

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