The odd, odd world we live in!

Ten images that show we live an incredibly bizarre world.  A MUDDY AFFAIR: Festival-goers enjoy the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South......

Don't acquire excess land: Minister to steel cos

Amid agitation against land acquisition for the Rs 54,000-crore (Rs 540 billion) Posco steel project in Orissa, the Centre on Friday warned the industry against creating a land-bank in excess of......

Posco in pact with SAIL to set up Rs 15k cr plant

Disappointed with the tardy progress of its proposed venture in Orissa, South Korean steel giant Posco is looking for new opportunities and has now teamed up with state-owned SAIL to set up an......

The world's youngest billionaires

Ah, to be young and rich. The average age of the world's 946 billionaires is 62, close to retirement, but a handful get to enjoy the trappings of wealth well before crow's-feet set in. Thirty-three......

Asian Games, Day 7: Tejinder's shot at glory as India earn seventh gold

IMAGE: India’s  Tejinder Pal Singh Toor in action. Photograph: IOA India/Twitter Shot-putter Tejinderpal Singh Toor's record-shattering gold gave a perfect start to India's......

A heart-wrenching tale of forgotten athletes

IMAGE: Kim So-young, left, a former gymnast who was paralysed from the neck down at 16 after falling off the parallel bars while training, talks to former Olympic gold medalist Jang Mi-ran at her......

Incheon ready to showcase cream of Asian sports

Rejepgeldy Nurmammedow (right), Head of Government of Ashghabat city, Turkmenistan, the next host city of Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games waves OCA flag with other delegates. Photograph: Chung......

India at the Asian Games: Day 4

Ashish Kumar creates history in gymnastics Gymnast Ashish Kumar on Tuesday opened a new chapter for India in the little followed sport by clinching the country's first ever medal, a bronze, in the......

Sania breezes thru; Sipaeya shocked

Indian ace Sania Mirza stormed into the women's singles quarter-finals in the Asian tennis championships, routing Kamila Mirzaalimova of Uzbekistan 6-0, 6-0 at the Tashkent Tennis Centre on......