A resurgent Indian men's hockey team aims to put behind the humiliation of 2012 Olympics as it opens the Rio Games campaign against Ireland on Saturday with renewed vigour and enthusiasm....
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who underwent surgery to fix a dislocated shoulder suffered during a rally at Varanasi, is recovering well and has been shifted out of the ICU, hospital authorities here said on Friday. ...
Seven more bodies of the victims of a bridge collapse on the Mumbai-Goa highway were recovered by search teams on Friday morning, taking the total bodies found so far to 21. ...
The Lok Sabha on Friday paid homage to the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in Japan in 1945. ...
About 100 doping samples collected at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London tested positive for performance-enhancing substances following a recent reanalysis, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach has said. ...
Fissures between the Congress and major United Democratic Front partner Kerala Congress-Mani appear to have reached a flash point with the latter planning to sit as a separate bloc in the Kerala legislative assembly. ...
At least 12 civilians were killed on Friday when militants in military fatigues opened random fire at a busy market in Assam's Kokrajhar town. Police said one of the raiders was also killed....
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Apparently miffed over the treatment he received in Pakistan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh Friday said India has always tried to be friendly with its reluctant western neighbhour but "yeh padosi hai ki maanta nahin". "We can change friends but not neighbours. Our Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has been friendly w...
Brazil's search for a first Olympic football gold medal got off to a goalless start as they were held to a frustrating draw against 10-man South Africa here. Brazil fielded their strongest possible line-up featuring Gabriel Barbosa, recent Manchester City signee Gabriel Jesus and spearheaded by their talismanic captain Neymar, here on Th...
Hoping to realise his dream of getting Usain Bolt to visit the 'favela' or Brazilian slums, well known Rio restaurateur and chef David Bipso has launched a social media campaign inviting the Jamaican sprint star....
