Winners of World Press Photo of the Year are truly incredible

A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press......

Maha, UP, MP target locust swarms; more invasions predicted

Civic workers sprayed gallons of insecticide and farmers beat 'thalis' and played loud music in several areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh to drive away swarms of......

The 'world's deadliest sea crossing' claimed 6 lives a day in 2018

Six people died every day last year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe – “the world’s deadliest sea crossing”, the United Nations refugee agency said, citing......

'Ramazan Mubarak': Trump hosts 1st iftar dinner at White House

United States President Donald Trump hosted his first Iftar dinner at the White House during which he sought co-operation from the Muslim world to achieve a future of security and prosperity for......

India announces sops for Africa

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled a new India aid package for African nations on Tuesday, of $6 billion, and a comprehensive range of initiatives covering various social and economic......

Lalu: My figures are not wrong

With his claims of the turnaround of the Railways coming under the scanner, former railway minister Lalu Prasad on Friday rejected the charge of juggling profit figures, insisting that he had......

India's ambitious solar power plans

India's Rs 4,800-crore (Rs 48 billion) solar power industry, which exports around 60 to 70 per cent of its wares to Europe, North America and China, seems to have taken a cue from the IT sector and......

Global oil shortage looms large

A multitude of world issues are converging and manifest themselves around future fossil fuel, energy resources, carbon dioxide, oxygen depletion, including water and mineral depletion. All combined......

PIX: Mo Farah signs off illustrious career with fourth-place finish

IMAGE: Running great Mo Farah brought the curtains down on an illustrious career with a fourth place finish at the Great North Run half-marathon in Newcastle. Photographs: Lee Smith/Reuters......

PIX: Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaican sweep in women's 100m

Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Sunday, Day 3. IMAGE: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates winning the women's 100 metres final alongside......

Here's what Oly champ Mo Farah had to say on Trump's travel ban

'The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm. President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien' IMAGE: Great Britain's Mo Farah reacts. Photograph: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images British Olympic......

Tergat lends a hand to new generation

As a child, world marathon record holder Paul Tergat had a good incentive for going to school every day -- a free, hot meal provided by the World Food Programme (WFP).The Kenyan double Olympic......