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Olympic medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore is India's new sports minister

Athens Olympic silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was on Sunday appointed the new sports minister in place of Vijay Goel, who has been made the minister of state for......

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A protester is engulfed by flames as he throws a petrol bomb against riot police guarding the parliament in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square during clashes December 6. Greek police fired tear......

India Mela part of India Week programs at UGA

An India Festival organized by the Indian Association of Greater Athens, Georgia, a discussion on Vikas Swarup's book Q&A which formed the basis for the Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, and......

Speaker gets Greek Parliament's gold medal

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee was on Tuesday awarded the gold medal of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens.Conferring the award on the occassion of "celebration of 150th year of constitutional......

Greece plane crash: All 121 dead

All 121 people aboard a Cypriot airliner died on Sunday after it smashed into a wooded hillside near Athens after air force pilots said the crew of the Boeing 737 appeared 'doubled up' in the......

New Greek bailout talks start, creditors seek more action

Athens has pushed two reform packages through parliament Talks between Greece and its international creditors on a third bailout began in Athens on Monday but the lenders want to see more reforms......

Greek parliament approves bailout measures as Syriza fragments

A Greek national flag flutters in front of the parliament building during heavy rainfall in Athens. Photograph: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis The Greek parliament passed sweeping austerity......

IMF calls for Greece debt relief ahead of bailout vote

Image: A Greek flag flutters behind a statue of ancient philosopher Socrates at the the Academy of Athens. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters An International Monetary Fund study......

Greek PM says Athens ready to return to negotiating table

Tsipras said the mandate that Greeks had given him was to reach a viable solution rather than clash with Europe Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed a 'No' vote in Sunday's referendum on a......

PHOTOS: How Greece is fighting the financial crisis

Image: A man takes part in a anti-austerity pro-government demo in front of the parliament in Athens February 11, 2015. Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens to support their new......

Champions League PIX: Juventus down United; City and Real win

In the other matches, AEK Athens were beaten 0-2 by Bayern Munich, Young Boys held Valencia 1, Ajax beat Benefica 1-0, Hoffenhiem and Lyon drew 3-3, while Roma were too good for CSK Moscow, winning......

PHOTOS: Syrian amputee carries Rio Olympic flame through Athens refugee camp

- 'I want to send a message to every athlete who was an athlete in his country and had to migrate, to become a refugee ... To not stay in the camp and do nothing. To go out there and work for their......

10 years on, Athens 2004 gives Greece little to cheer

It was billed as a chance to transform Greece's image abroad and boost growth, but 10 years after the country hosted the world's greatest sporting extravaganza there is little to celebrate at the......

Russian weightlifter stripped of Athens bronze medal

Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov was stripped of his 2004 Olympic bronze medal on Tuesday after a retest of his sample from the Athens Games returned positive for banned substance......

Rathore wins gold in shooting nationals

Athens Olympics silver-medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Tuesday, clinched the double trap gold medal ahead of former world number one Ronjan Sodhi and Mohammad Asab at the 56th Shooting......

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Smoke From Greek Island Ravaged By Wildfires Reaches Athens

A large wildfire fanned by strong winds burned tracts of pine forest on the Greek island of Evia, firefighters said on Tuesday, with evacuation... ...

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Firefighters tackle blaze on Mount Hymettos near Athens

A large fire fanned by strong winds that spread quickly over the slopes of Mount Hymettos near Athens was subsiding by early Monday, authorities said. ...

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Heat headache for 2020 planners as Tokyo swelters a year before Games

IMAGE: A woman holding a sunshade walks past Olympic rings displayed at Nihonbashi district in Tokyo.�Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters Soaring... ...

http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/heat-headache-for-2020-planners-as-tokyo-swelters-olympics/20190806.htm

'To Kanti Bhatt, books played god'

Kanti Bhatt, respected Gujarati author and journalist, passed into the ages on August 4, 2019, at the age of 88. In tribute, we reproduce an... ...

http://www.rediff.com/news/special/to-kanti-bhatt-books-played-god/20190806.htm

Greece says Turkey's drilling off Cyprus puts security at risk

Greece accused Turkey of undermining security in the eastern Mediterranean by drilling for oil and gas around Cyprus, making some of the strongest... ...

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