Rio de Janeiro is seeking a new venue for the opening water polo matches at the 2016 Olympics after organisers on Thursday confirmed reforms at the proposed venue will not be completed in time.

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Traditional Indian sports have been played in villages since ages. Though most sports lovers in the country follow cricket, hockey, tennis and even English football on television, disciplines like kabaddi, archery and wrestling are fast catching up. But there are some sports people hardly know anything about. Take a look.

'By the time the ground dries up, considering that the homes are still submerged, winter will be here. By the end of October, it is going to be very, very cold. By the end of November, it will be freezing, and it would have snowed by mid December. So before the ground can dry up, there will be snow.' 'The anger has not receded with the water. It persists. The floods have completely finished whatever 5 per cent chance Omar Abdullah had left with the public... He is seen as someone who is highly arrogant and is coming across as one who has no feelings for his people.' A Kashmiri whose family has lived in J&K since before Partition, tells Archana Masih/Rediff.com how the government and media failed the people when flood waters turned Paradise into hell.

It will take months if not years before flood-ravaged Srinagar is restored to its pristine glory.

The president of the Olympic Council of Asia has thrown his support behind baseball's bid to return to the programme at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

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Tokyo was awarded the 2020 summer Games on Saturday, beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had addressed the International Olympic Committee in person to allay fears over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Zara Phillips has pulled her royal weight, helping put Britain in medal contention heading into Tuesday's show jumping final of the three-discipline Olympic equestrian eventing competition.

Indians came up with their best show ever at the Asian age group swimming championship as they added a gold, four silver and two bronze, besides two gold in diving and a bronze in water polo, at the end of the fourth day, on Thursday, to take their tally to 34 in the event at Jakarta.

China sponsored Indian women's waterpolo team for Asian Games in Guangzhou and the Swimming Federation of India agreed to it after the Asian body sent an invitation, the SFI said on Tuesday.

India's performance on day five of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, on Wednesday.

Images from day five of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, on Tuesday.

India's performance on day four of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhour, on Tuesday.

A look at India's performance on day three of the 2010 Asian Games, on Monday.

Fashion aspirations of Indians have helped spawn a new business and some online shopping sites have now brought luxury brands within reach of people even in small towns at throwaway prices.

Karnataka clinched both the men's and women's team titles in the 63rd Senior National Aquatic Championships at the LNCPE pool near Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, a day when 26 existing records were erased.

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Here's a list of record-breaking hotels around the world, whether they are the biggest, tallest, oldest, greenest or most expensive.

Globally, Perfetti Van Melle ranks third in the confectionery sweepstakes after Mars and Cadbury. But in India, it leads the pack with a 25 per cent share of the Rs 3,000-crore (Rs 30 billion) per annum market

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President Pratibha Patil, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul and Priyanka were among those who turned up early to vote in the fourth phase of elections on Thursday.

The record-creating jalebi is 75 inches in diameter and weighed 15 kg. "I am proud that we made it to the record books," Delhi Mistan Bhandar's owner Kailash Verma said. The record-breaking jalebi was made to mark the platinum anniversary of the Delhi Mistan Bhandar in Shillong.

Jamaica made a clean sweep of Olympic sprint golds on Thursday with victory in the women's 200 meters humbling the United States, the traditional track and field superpower.

The Netherlands won the gold medal in the women's water polo competition on Thursday, scoring a goal in the last minute to beat the United States 9-8.

Tentative schedule for events on Day 2 of the Olympic Games.

Forget everything you think you know about India. This is Kochi, the southern coast's sybaritic retreat. Tad Friend explores lush backwaters, dabbles in local cooking, and expands his mind through the ayurvedic treatment sirodhara.

In the heart of India's Silicon Valley, Bruno Maddox finds a city transformed by globalisation, dreaming of the future.

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He has been named in a 16-man squad for Sri Lanka's four-match one-day series in New Zealand starting on Dec. 31.

The Sri Lanka all-rounder had made a breezy 34 when he was forced to retire with a painful right arm in the warm up match in Mumbai.

The Sri Lankan all-rounder's recovery from a dislocated shoulder has suffered a setback after a freak accident playing water polo.