PV Sindhu won Macau Open Badminton tournament
Indian
Shuttler PV Sindhu on November 29, 2015 won the Macau Open Grand Prix
Gold women’s singles title for the third consecutive time. In the finals
Sindhu defeated Minatsu Mitani of Japan with 21-9, 21-23, 21-14 score.
This was Sindhu’s first title of the season and the fifth overall.
World Heavy Weight Champion-Tyson Fury
Britain’s
Tyson Fury was crowned the new world heavy weight champion after a win
over Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine who suffered his first defeat in
eleven years since 2004. With this victory Tyson Fury won the prize
money of about Rs. 35 crores along with world heavy weight championship
belt.
Great Britain wins 2015 Davis Cup of Tennis
Andy
Murray led Great Britain have won the 2015 Davis Cup for first time
since 1936 and for the 10th time in the competition’s 115-year history.
Great Britain tennis team defeated Belgium team by 3-1 score in the
finals to win the 104th edition of the competition. The Davis Cup is the
premier international team event in men’s tennis organised by the
International Tennis Federation (ITF). It was established in 1900 as a
tennis challenge between Great Britain and the United States.
UGC plans world’s largest portal ‘Bharatvani’ project
The
UGC, the apex body tasked with maintenance of standards in higher
education, has proposed an all-inclusive and interactive portal,
‘Bharatvani’, the largest internet language site in the world, where
knowledge in all Indian languages will be collected and disseminated.
UGC secretary asked all universities and colleges to share digitised and
non-digitised material in various languages available with them for the
ambitious ‘Bharatvani’ project. Bharatvani is a project with an
objective of delivering knowledge in and about all languages in India
using multimedia (i.e., text, audio, video, images) formats through a
portal (website).