Canada and Australia said they would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the Games went ahead as scheduled in July and August this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a list of previous cancellations, boycotts and changes of venues of the Summer and Winter games.
America's Lexie Alford has travelled to almost every country on earth.
The two are among six individuals declared winners on Thursday.
Why omit the Tiananmen massacre from the history of China's Communist party, asks Claude Arpi.
After six fruitless years playing international football, the world's worst team are beginning to see the romance of the beautiful game. When the rag-tag national side of East Timor drew 2-2 with fellow strugglers Cambodia last week, they clinched the first point they had ever won to stem a seemingly endless run of defeats.
This is India's best-ever FIFA Ranking since April 1996 when India were also ranked 100.
'What accounts for the huge difference in death tolls between the most advanced countries and the relatively poorer countries?' mulls Virendra Kapoor.
What you need to know to stay healthy when you're travelling.
The pictures tell the story of the grand success of the first International Yoga Day.
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Surjewala said the party's 10-day agitation was formalised at a meeting in which Rahul Gandhi participated in, but neither he nor Sonia Gandhi would be participating in the state and district level programmes.
The international football tournament will return to India after an absence of 10 years.
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Veteran actor Mohan Joshi, Dasmodar Ganesh Bapat, who is working towards eradication of leprosy, and L Subadani Devi, Manipur-based weaver, were among those presented with Padma Shri.
At some stage this fall in the quality of life will begin to hurt anybody's popularity, observes Shekhar Gupta.
'His speech at the bhoomi puja will stand out for a long time in the memory of those who listened to it for touching the pinnacle of excellence and brilliance in both style and content,' declares B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The moon blacked out the sun in totality over Indonesia's main western island of Sumatra, providing crowds with stunning views of a total solar eclipse.
India coach Bob Houghton said the crucial Nehru Cup football match against the West Asian will be a real assessment of his team.
Arvind Kejriwal is the founder of Delhi-based organisation Parivartan
The proposed Foreign Trade Agreement between India and Asean got a boost today as trade ministers of Asean countries agreed to India's proposal for reducing the negative list to 490 items
Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture has announced a grant of $200,000 to an organisation working for the under-privileged children in developing nations, including India, Nepal, Cambodia and Vietman.
It had signed a joint venture with Reliance Retail to form M&S Reliance India Private Limited in April 2008.
It became increasingly clear that the real negotiations the government had to conduct were with Indian business which was wary of yet another free trade agreement, points out T N Ninan.
The Indian football team achieved its best-ever FIFA ranking in over two decades as it jumped to 101 in the latest list released on Thursday.
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Asian Development Bank and Reserve Bank on Thursday advocated that India should go in for a free trade agreement with China and five other nations in the Mekong region to sustain high growth.
Mankind has presence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania.
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No one had been caught in the trap until Thursday, when police were informed that the body of the young monk in his saffron-coloured robe was discovered near the bathroom and an autopsy found that he had been electrocuted.
We're back with the fourth and final installment of the line up of Miss Universe 2016 contestants.
At least four Cambodians, including two children, died after eating the meat from a giant turtle. Dozens were hospitalised.
'The US and India are engaged in a dialogue for missile defence. I hope it will allow the Indian government to protect the Indian people from Chinese missiles,' says China expert Richard Fisher.
Khalistan Liberation Force chief Harminder Singh 'Mintoo' who along with five others escaped from the high security jail in Nabha on Sunday, was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014.
