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The first Art of Living (AoL) ashram in Beijing will be inaugurated by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Top seeds China were stretched to four matches at the Asia Mixed Team Badminton Championship but retained the title with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Korea.

Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth opened his campaign at the Thailand Masters badminton tournament with a straight game win over Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei in Bangkok on Wednesday.

The Indian men's team felt the absence of star doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty as it suffered a narrow 2-3 loss to China in the Badminton Asia Team Championships group tie in Malaysia on Thursday. Star shuttlers HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen won their singles matches but China fought back with wins in the two doubles contests to make it 2-2. National champion Chirag Sen lost 15-21 16-21 to Wang Zheng Xing in the fifth match as India conceded the tie.

China defeated India in the last men's league match of the Badminton Asian Team Championships, topping Group A. Indian women have a great chance of winning their first medal as they were drawn against Hong Kong. The men's draw will be released late on Thursday. India rested Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty, and Kidambi Srikanth against China.

India's campaign in the Badminton Asian Mixed Team Championship ended with a 2-3 loss to China in the semi-finals, but not before the doubles teams -- men's and mixed -- came up with inspired performances to give their opponents a tough time here on Saturday.

Despite a gallant performance by two doubles teams, India went down to China 2-3 in the semifinals and settled for bronze in the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship in Dubai on Saturday.

Shiv ended with a modest one-under 71 to finish tied 31st at China Open even as Wu Ashun became first Chinese to win a European Tour event on home soil.

Grand Masters B Adhiban and K Sasikiran will spearhead the Indian challenge in the masters category of the 18th Gibraltar International Chess Festival which starts here on Tuesday.

With a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, the Baihetan hydropower station is equipped with 16 hydro-generating units, each with a capacity of one million kilowatts, the largest single-unit capacity in the world, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Fueled by trade tensions with the US, a wave of patriotic investing is surging across China. Citizens are investing in the stock market to support their country, focusing on sectors aligned with China's national agenda. This surge reflects a unified effort to stabilize markets amidst trade war uncertainties, with both retail and state investors contributing to the cause.