Venue woes present but organisers keen on cricket in next Asian Games in Japan

Organisers keen on cricket in 2026 Asian Games despite venue headache

The curtains were brought down on a memorable Asian Games with the celebration of the athletes' stupendous feats and China's cultural heritage at a colourful and technologically mesmerising closing ceremony in Hangzhou on Sunday.

India's final tally in Hangzhou stood at 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, a quantum leap from the 70 medals the contingent bagged at Jakarta in 2018.

The FIFA 2022 World Cup will kick-off in Qatar on Sunday, November 20. Here is a list of the 26-man squads playing in the quadrennial global football extravaganza.

Japanese organisers have decided to ban spectators from venues of the Olympics

Kanazaki's positive test comes less than a week after the J.League announced plans to restart the campaign on July 4

'Both India and Japan can find themselves in a win-win situation if they draw some lessons from each other's strengths,' says Dr Rajaram Panda.

When the novel coronavirus outbreak hit China in late December and January, the government sprang into crisis mode. Hard-hit cities like Wuhan, where the outbreak began, went into complete lockdown. Millions worked from home or self-quarantined for weeks on end. New hospitals were built in a matter of days to treat the sheer number of patients. People who broke quarantine rules or lied about their travel history were detained. Soon, the virus spread over the globe, with many countries banning movement of citizens to some ordering sanitisation of public spaces. Take a look.

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field

Besides Surat, which will also be the world's fastest growing city during 2019-35, the other nine cities are Agra, Bengaluru Hyderabad, Nagpur, Tiruppur, Rajkot, Tiruchirappalli, Chennai and Vijayawada.

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.

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The winning photos of this year's Nikon annual Small World Photomicrography Competition.

Carlos Tevez is getting paid 615,000 a week at Shanghai Shenhua, making him the world's best-paid player. His salary is now more than Cristiano Ronaldo's and Lionel Messi's!

Koide died on Tuesday at a hospital in Nagoya, central Japan, where he had been treated for chronic heart problems.

The ambitious dream of flying the solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse around the world faced a major setback on Wednesday.

Japan now boasts of having the world's fastest train.

About 17.9 million people's life is at risk.

Nagoya Station in Japan has the world's tallest railway station building.

Linking India's growth to high-speed trains, chief of a Japanese rail company said quicker movement will help the country in realising its ambition of pushing development and progress.

Company claims new use for kala jeera extract, provoking alarmed campaigners here and abroad; says reaction not based on facts.

Researchers seem to have found out which cities across the globe face the highest risk from coastal flooding.

Boardroom shuffle in Toyota may lead Takeshi Uchiyamada to become chirman, speculate executives.

Having seen the well of talent dry up in France, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has identified Japan as an emerging market to find new players for his Premier League side.

The product will enalble Japanese companies to jumpstart their business operations in India in a short time.

As a compromise formula, India proposed targets could be revised at the subsequent CBD summits, scheduled to be held every 2 years till 2020.

A regional bank in Japan today started operating ATMs for cash withdrawals, deposits and balance inquiries that do not require plastic cards but instead identify account holders by scanning their hands.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be on a five-day tour to Japan from Sunday to expand business ties with that country and will also meet auto major Maruti Suzuki's top brass, official sources said.

When compared to New York, Mercer's benchmark city, most European cities have witnessed a decline in cost of living.

Global HR services firm Mercer's survey of 214 cities worldwide has ranked Tokyo as the most expensive, while Karachi is the least costly place for expatriates.

Neymar has distanced himself from remarks made by Brazilian great Pele claiming the Santos striker is better than Barcelona's Argentine forward Lionel Messi.

Lionel Messi and Neymar will take part in a new anti-doping program to trial a biological passport in football, FIFA said.

The minister was addressing a session of Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2011.

Two weeks ahead of the annual meet on climate change, to be held in Cancun, Mexico, the UN climate chief observed that there is 'optimism for the planet' since countries are taking climate change seriously at home.

Inclusion of human pathogens in biodiversity and the use of derivatives of bio-resources are the non-negotiables for India at the upcoming Convention on Biological Diversity, wherein the country plans to fight for a legally-binding agreement on biodiversity.

Scott McDonald was one of three players cut from Australia's preliminary World Cup squad by coach Pim Verbeek on Tuesday.

May 22 is celebrated as the International Day for Biodiversity.

Tiger Woods's 258-week reign as World No 1 could be ended by fellow American Phil Mickelson on Sunday.