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Volcanic ash clouds to clear India by 7.30 pm; thick haze in Delhi

Ash clouds from volcanic activity in Ethiopia are drifting towards China and will move away from India by 7.30 pm on Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department said. IMAGE: Visuals from the INA......

Maximum city, minimum air: Mumbai's AQI worsens

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said that it has issued stop-work notices to 53 construction sites for contributing to air pollution, as the city grapples with deteriorating Air Quality......

Where The Victims Of The Kanishka Terror Attack Are Not Forgotten

Names and names and names and names...329 in all.Some Indian. Some Canadian. Some British.Berry. Gupta. Jain. James. Bhatt. Beauchesne. Chatlani. Enayati. Lougheed....Vaihayasi Pande Daniel visits......

Putin demands key Ukraine region in return for peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a phone call this past week with United States President Donald Trump, demanded that Kyiv surrender full control of Donetsk, a strategically vital region in......

Russia-China Gas Pact Poses New Challenges For India

India should simultaneously prioritise domestic exploration and production of more oil and gas in the country and ensure we retain diversified suppliers for imports, points out former foreign......

Strait of Hormuz closure: How it will impact India

US strikes on Iran's three main nuclear facilities have once again raised concerns that Tehran might shut down the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's most critical chokepoints, through which a......

Tomato price volatility exposes gaps in India's agriculture supply chain

Tomato prices have been on the boil for more than a month. Data from major cities show that the spike has been between 125 and 150 per cent at the wholesale level. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters......

Peninsula, Lehman form real estate JV

Ashok Piramal company Peninsula Land and global investment major Lehman Brothers are likely to set up a Rs 700 crore joint venture for investing in real estate projects. While Lehman will invest Rs......

Peninsula defers hospitality, new ventures to save

Peninsula Land Ltd, a unit of the Ashok Piramal group, is deferring its plans to build business hotels by at least six months to preserve cash, a company official has said. In May last year,......

Peninsula inks Rs 1,200 cr land deal with Essar

Ashok Piramal Group company Peninsula Land has inked a property deal worth Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) with Essar Realty Holdings, the realty arm of the Essar Group, to sell and lease premises......

Al Qaeda urges Muslims to shun FIFA World Cup

IMAGE: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the militant group's Yemen-based branch, criticised Qatar for "bringing immoral people, homosexuals, sowers of corruption and atheism into the Arabian......

Brazilian Samba Comes To The Desert

IMAGE: Thousands of yellow shirts painted Doha's Stadium 974 bright yellow on Monday evening. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images and Matthias Hangst/Getty Images Could Brazil become six-time......

WC PIX: Late Casemiro strike sends Brazil into last 16

Images from the FIFA World Cup Group G match between Brazil and Switzerland on Monday. IMAGE: Brazil’s Casemiro celebrates after scoring against Switzerland. Photograph: Clive......

PICS: FIFA World Cup kicks off in glitzy opening!

IMAGE: General view outside the stadium with fireworks during the opening ceremony at Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor, Qatar, on Sunday. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed Qatar's ruler opened the World Cup on......

Will Scott Boland rise to the occasion in unfamiliar conditions?

'You have just got to put your best foot forward' IMAGE: Scott Boland had a forgettable white-ball debut back in 2016 against India in one of the inconsequential bilateral......