Kidambi Srikanth created history as he became only the first Indian male badminton player to achieve this rank. After his grand French Open win, the 24-year-old Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian and only the fourth male shuttler in the history to lift four Super Series titles in a calendar year. (Photo: AP) New Delhi: Indian ace shuttler Srikanth Kidmabi has risen to the zenith of his career as he established himself as world number 2 in the latest BWF men&7 PCS FLEXIBLE RATCHET SPANNER SET39;s singles ratings.The young player has once again created history as he became only the first Indian male badminton player to achieve this rank, since the official Badminton World Federation ranking was introduced.After his grand French Open win, the 24-year-old became the first Indian and only the fourth male shuttler in the history to lift four Super Series titles in a calendar year.The Pullela Gopichand protege achieved the ranking after lifting the French Open trophy last week defeating his Japanese opponent 21-14, 21-13 in a one-sided summit showdown and clinching the Denmark Open Super Series Premier, the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier and Australian Open Super Series earlier in the year.The top spot of the men's singles ranking has been held by Denmark's Viktor Axelsen, who Srikanth eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open.Meanwhile, H.S. Prannoy, who Srikanth defeated in the French Open to score his place in the finals, too has climbed to his career-best ranking of 11th and is now staring at the top 10.In the women singles BWF rankings, India's top two # women shuttlers' rank remained unchanged.French Open semi-finalist P.V. Sindhu is second to Tai Tzu-ying of Taiwan, while Saina Nehwal, the 2012 French Open runner-up, is 11th in the latest rankings.The young men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty was placed at the 28th spot, five ranks higher to another Indian duo of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy.In women's doubles rankings, Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy plunged two spots to the 25th.

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Despite wrapping up the victory in just 65 minutes, Williams said there was plenty of room for improvement. AA Serena Williams.jpeg Despite wrapping up the victory in just 65 minutes, Williams said there was plenty of room for improvement.New York: Wimbledon champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray raised the roof at the US Open on Thursday, powering into the third round with decisive straight-sets victories.World number one Williams defeated fellow American Vania King 6-3, 6-3, her 306th Grand Slam singles match win tying her with Martina Navratilova for the most ever for a woman."This one's kind of cool," she said of her latest milestone, "to win 306."There could be more history in store for Williams as she seeks a seventh US Open title and a 23rd Grand Slam singles crown, both of which would be Open Era records.She fired 13 aces, with a total of 38 winners against 87th-ranked wild card King, and said the troublesome right shoulder that has hindered her since Wimbledon wasn't a problem."So far, so good," said Williams, who was cheered on by rap mogul Jay Z and his pop superstar wife Beyonce as she booked a meeting with 47th-ranked Swede Johanna Larsson for a place in the last 16.Despite wrapping up the victory in just 65 minutes, Williams said there was plenty of room for improvement."I feel like I made a lot of errors," Williams said. "What really matters is I got the win. Hopefully I'll just get better."By the time Williams opened the night session the rain that prompted organisers to close the new roof on Arthur Ashe stadium had tailed off.Murray had played with it drumming on the roof, adding to the noise the US Open is famous for."You can't hear anything, really," said Murray, who downed tenacious Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-1, 6-4."I mean, you could hear the line calls, but not so much when he was hitting the ball or even when you're hitting the ball, really, which is tough."Nevertheless, after needing seven set points to seal the first frame, Murray broke Granollers twice in the second set and once in the third to move through to a meeting with Italian Paolo Lorenzi, a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-7 (1/7), 7-6 (7/3) winner over France's Gilles Simon.Juan Martin del Potro, who has undergone four wrist surgeries since lifting the US Open trophy in 2009, closed out the action on Ashe with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-2 victory over 19th seeded American Steve Johnson.Del Potro, ranked 142nd in the world as he battles back from the injuries that nearly cost him his career, is back in the Open as a wildcard after a sparkling run to a silver medal in the Rio Olympics.Wawrinka win in straight sets:As the showers lingered, a batch of doubles matches scheduled for outside courts were cancelled.Among those who didn't have the luxury of the roof, 2014 finalist Kei Nishikori of Japan waited out a third-set rain delay en route to a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over 20-year-old Russian qualifier Karen Khachanov.Third-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka, a two-time semi-finalist, was also up against a qualifier, advancing with a 6-1, 7-6 (7/4), 7-5 victory over 243rd-ranked Italian Alessandro Giannessi.Eighth-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem downed Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to line up a meeting with Spain's Pablo Carreno-Busta, who rallied from two sets down to beat Serbian Janko Tipsarevic 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.Australian Nick Kyrgios, the 14th seed, put on a serving clinic, firing 27 aces and winning 45 of 48 first-serve points in a 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Argentina's Horacio Zeballos.Women's fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland survived an early onslaught from US Open debutant Naomi Broady to beat the Briton 7-6 (11/9), 6-3.Fired-up fifth seed Simona Halep also advanced, downing Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4 in a battle of former French Open finalists.Venus Williams, the sixth seed whose seven Grand Slam titles include two US Opens, coasted to the 70th US Open match win of her career 6-2, 6-3 win over Germany's Julia Goerges.The elder Williams, bedevilled by 63 unforced errors in a scrappy first-round win over Offset Double Ring Ratchet Spanner Ukrainian Kateryna Kozlova, cut that to 17 in a crisp performance against the 64th-ranked German.

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OpenDXL Ontology enables automatic integration, communication between disparate security technologies via open source standard and code. The newly formed Open Cybersecurity Alliance was launched in October 2019. The Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) today announced the availability of OpenDXL Ontology, the first open source language for connecting cybersecurity tools through a common messaging framework. With open source code freely available to the security community, OpenDXL Ontology enables any tool to automatically gain the ability to communicate and interoperate with all other technologies using this language. By eliminating the need for custom integrations between individual products, this release marks a major milestone in the OCA’s mission to drive greater interoperability across the security industry.The newly formed Open Cybersecurity Alliance was launched in October 2019 to connect the fragmented cybersecurity landscape with common, open source code and practices that allow companies to "integrate once, reuse everywhere.” Governed under the auspices of OASIS, the OCA now includes more than 25 member organizations and has brought two major interoperability projects into the open-source realm, with OpenDXL Ontology (contributed by McAfee) and STIX Shifter (contributed by IBM Security) now available for cross-industry collaboration and development on GitHub.In addition to the availability of OpenDXL Ontology, the OCA is also announcing the formation of its Technical Steering Committee, including leaders from AT&T, IBM Security, McAfee, Packet Clearinghouse, and Tripwire, who will drive the technical direction and development of the organization.Open Source Language Schema to Connect Security ToolsThe Open Data Exchange Layer (OpenDXL) is an open messaging framework that over 4,100 vendors and enterprises already utilize to develop and share integrations with other tools. The release of the OpenDXL Ontology now offers a single, common language for these notifications, information and actions across security products that any vendor can adopt in order to communicate in a standard way with all other tools under this umbrella. This provides companies with a set of tooling that can be applied once and automatically reused everywhere across all product categories, while also eliminating the need to update integrations as product versions and functionalities change.For example, if a certain tool detects a compromised device, it could automatically notify all other tools and even quarantine that device using a standard message format readable by all. While previously this was only possible with custom integrations between individual products, it will now be automatically enabled between all tools that adopt OpenDXL Ontology. Through continued development by the community, this common language will facilitate a wide variety of interoperability use cases, from sharing threat intelligence to triggering remediation between tools, such as isolating a device or updating a policy.The adoption of OpenDXL Ontology will help create a stronger, united front to defend and protect across all types of security tools, while reducing the burden of point integrations between individual products.OCA Momentum: 25+ Organizations Join Forces for Open SecuritySince launching five months ago, the OCA has expanded to include more than 25 partner organizations, with the following new members joining: Armis, Center for Internet Security, CyberNB, Cydarm, Gigamon, Raytheon, Recorded Future, sFractal Consulting, and Tripwire. The full list of members can be found here.The OCA community is currently collaborating on GitHub and Slack to further new open-source code and use-cases for cybersecurity industry interoperability. In addition to the development of OpenDXL Ontology for a common, open-source language between tools, the OCA is also continuing to build out capabilities for STIX-Shifter, a universal, out-of-the box search capability for security products of all types. Since bringing STIX Shifter to the open-source community, hundreds of visitors have accessed this technology on GitHub, with dozens of users initiating new project forks for development on top of the primary STIX Shifter code.The OCA will continue 12 PCS FLEXIBLE RATCHET SPANNER SET development for both STIX Shifter and OpenDXL Ontology, and is actively seeking additional contributors from across the security industry to help guide and drive innovative new use cases for these open source projects.

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The US-China spat is one of several trade fights picked by the protectionist President Donald Trump as his "America First" agenda clashes with free-trade relations with traditional allies.Meanwhile talks among the three NAFTA signatories, launched after Trump demanded an overhaul of the "terrible deal", have snagged notably owing to US demands to increase American content installed in duty-free autos.The complex web of commercial ties under threat has raised the prospect of a global trade war, sending financial markets tumbling.The US-China spat is one of several trade fights picked by the protectionist President Donald Trump as his "America First" agenda clashes with free-trade relations with traditional allies..The tariffs may just be the first shot in a ballooning war, as Trump has warned that he could ratchet up the measures to include USD 450 billion in goods -- the 7 PCS DOUBLE BLISTER vast majority of all of China's exports to the United States.However, signs of a possible thaw emerged on July 5 when the US ambassador in Berlin told bosses at Germany's biggest car firms that Washington was calling on the EU to bring tariffs to zero on car imports -- in exchange for equal treatment. (Photo: File/Pixabay) Washington: The United States launched what China called the "largest trade war in economic history" between the world's top two economies Friday, imposing tariffs on goods worth around USD 34 billion annually.From blue jeans to motorbikes and whiskey, the EU's hit-list of products targeted the most emblematic of American exports.European UnionOn June 1, Trump made good on several months of threats and imposed tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports from the EU, along with 10 percent on aluminium imports.The complex web of commercial ties under threat has raised prospect of global trade war, sending financial markets tumbling.Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traded barbs over the steel tariffs at a farcical summit of the G7 richest countries that ended on June 9.Europe is also worried Washington will follow up on a threat to impose punitive levies on imported cars, something the powerful German car industry particularly fears.Already a second tranche of tariffs on USD 16 billion in products is under review and could soon be added to the US measures.Here is a summary of Trump's trade conflicts:ChinaAfter weeks of apparently fruitless negotiations, the US imposed tariffs on approximately USD 34 billion of Chinese products, sparking an immediate response from Beijing, which said it would hit back but did not provide details.Trump has said the European Union is "possibly almost as bad as China" when it comes to trade, as a raft of retaliatory tariffs from Brussels came into effect on June 22.Canada and MexicoCanada and Mexico, both members with the US of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have not been spared the Washington offensive on steel and aluminium, and are threatening their own reprisals.China's retaliatory measures were expected to hit back largely at agricultural products designed to hurt Trump supporters.The US tariffs target a wide range of Chinese goods-- including aircraft parts and computer hard drives-- that Washington says have benefited from unfair trade practices.

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The rupee depreciating by 18 paise to a fresh six-month low of 65.28 against the dollar in early trade and spiking crude prices overseas following Turkish threats to block Kurdish oil exports hurt investor sentiment. Photo: PTI Mumbai: Market made a subdued start on Tuesday in line with a sluggish Asian opening, as trading of barbs between the US and North Korea made investors edgy.13 points in the previous five sessions..51.28 against the dollar also hurt investor sentiment.05 points, or 0. In the Asian region, Hong Kong&Double Head Ratchet Socket Wrenches39;s Hang Seng fell 0.12 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 9,846.05 per cent while Japan's Nikkei shed 0. Shanghai Composite was also down 0. The laggards were Asian Paints, Hindustan Unilever, Dr Reddy's, HDFC Ltd, Coal India and SBI, weakening up to 2. FMCG, consumer durables, banking and PSU banking were in the red, losing by up to 0.16 per cent.55. Brokers said that apart from continuous foreign fund outflows, Asia saw losses as the US and North Korea ratchet up their war of words over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, which led to slide in the key indices here. The US Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.24 per cent on Monday.32 per cent. The broader NSE Nifty too fell by 26.10 per cent in early trade today. # Market made a subdued start on Tuesday, in line with a sluggish Asian opening, as trading of barbs between the US and North Korea made investors edgy.18 per cent, to 31,567.The rupee depreciating by 18 paise to a fresh six-month low of 65.59 at the outset, slipped back to quote lower by 59. The BSE 30-share benchmark after rising briefly to 31,693. The gauge had fallen 797.14 per cent.

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Russian media reported that the USS Porter, a US naval destroyer, entered the Black Sea a few days ago on a routine deployment, a move it said raised hackles in Moscow because it had recently been fitted with a new missile system. It is a show of force. "Of course, this does not meet with our approval and will undoubtedly lead to response measures,” RIA cited Andrei Kelin, a senior foreign ministry official, as saying."It is all being done on the eve of the Warsaw NATO summit.”.US Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday the US military would also have two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean this month ahead of a July Nato summit in Warsaw as Washington sought to balance Russian military activities.The Russian foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a US naval ship’s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahe One Side Ratchet Socket Wrench The Russian foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a US naval ship’s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahead of the Nato summit, the RIA news agency reported.The deployment of US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean was a show of force which deepened a chill in ties between Moscow and Washington. "As regards the overall situation of course there is a definite increase and stoking of tensions in our relations,” he was quoted as saying.

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