Both the Indian shuttlers are expected to overcome their respective first-round opponents -- Aya Ohori for PV Sindhu and Sayaka Takahashi for Saina Nehwal -- and cross swords in what would be their fifth encounter at the international stage
Around a dozen people were still unaccounted for after record rains that started on New Year's Eve pounded Jakarta and left swathes of the megalopolis, home to some 30 million, under water and with thousands homeless.
Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of it have already started to disappear.
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PV Sindhu will next face the winner of the match between Malaysia's Soniia Cheh and-third seeded Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in the last-eight round of the BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament
PV Sindhu staved off a challenge from Aya Ohori with a 11-21, 21-15, 21-15 win, while Kidambi Srikanth beat Kenta Nishimoto 21-14, 21-13 in the opening round of the Indonesia Open badminton tournament on Wednesday.
The idea of moving Indonesia's seat of government from an urban conglomeration of nearly 30 million people with some of the world's worst traffic jams has stretched on for decades.
The 28-year-old Indian, who was a runner-up here last year, notched up a 18-21 21-12 21-18 win over sixth seed Bingjiao, a world championship bronze medallist.
The 305-metre-high volcano, about 200 kilometres southwest of capital Jakarta, has been erupting since June. In July, authorities widened its no-go areas to 2 kilometres from the crater.