Ukraine: India abstains on UNGA resolution deploring Russia

India demanded 'safe and uninterrupted' passage for all its nationals, including students still stranded in Ukraine and cities in the conflict zones, as it abstained in the United Nations General......

Centre to bear expenses for first round of vaccination: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and......

COVID-19 vaccination drive to start in India on Jan 16

India will launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world's largest inoculation programme with priority to be given to nearly three......

Countries begin to seal off UK amid new Covid surge

France became the latest European country to close all its borders with the United Kingdom after Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Bulgaria, the Irish Republic, Turkey and Canada suspended flights......

'Nice mosquito bite' in Paris

At the Paris climate change summit, there is talk of restricting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius instead of 2 degrees Celsius, which has been negotiated so far. This would give India less......

Leaving Jet Airways was painful: Datta

PAINFUL. That was how Saroj Datta described his exit from Jet Airways, after completing his tenure last month as one of the founding members of the company. "Leaving a place you worked for 20 years......

Hard policy choices ahead for India

Economist who predicted global crash says India needs to both spend and tighten and it won't be easy.Amid fear of an economic deceleration, New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini......

Chinese agents hack into India's top secret army documents!

Major Indian missile and armament systems may have been compromised as Chinese hackers have broken into top secret files of the Indian defence ministry and embassies around the world, the New York......

Riteish Deshmukh launches Marathi Filmfare awards

A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Riteish Deshmukh launched the Marathi segment of the celebrated Filmfare Awards.Riteish posted a picture, above, and wrote:......

Filming war

In its annual round up of the brightest talents in independent cinema, Filmmaker magazine throws up an Indian name: Vineet Dewan, who has been named in the magazine's list of 25 New Faces of......

BCCI only interested in making money out of cricket: OCA

BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters BCCI's decision to not send Indian teams for the Asian Games drew sharp criticism from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on......

India at the Asian Games: Gold for Kabaddi teams; 5th place finish in volleyball

Gold medal winning Indian womens Kabaddi team pose during the award ceremony at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on Friday. Photograph: PTI India ended their campaign in the 17th Asian Games,......

Afghan beach volleyball team miss out on medal, car but attract attention

Habibullah Sadat, left, of Afghanistan and Dashti Abdulaziz of Kuwait vie for the ball during the Men's Beach Volleyball Preliminary Round Asian Games match. Photograph: Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty......

SC examines if OCs can represent India

The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to examine whether Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) have any right to represent India in international sporting events. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G......

Afghan cricket short on cash, full of hope

Short of funds and experience but bursting with confidence, Afghanistan's fledgling cricket team are already itching to take on the best sides in the world. "If we had just 50 percent of the......