Here are five boxers to watch when the Games kick off
Rio-bound Indian grapplers, Sandeep Tomar and Narsingh Yadav won the silver and bronze medals in 74kg and 57kg respectively at the Spanish Grand Prix Wrestling championship in Madrid on Saturday.
Blood sucking locusts on the loose, a honeymoon gone awry, a disenchanted school teacher and a singing tropical rainforest mammal, Sukanya Verma lets you take your pick from the OTT spread this week.
Some complained of being beaten up as they tried to join the fleeing crowds, purely because of their skin colour.
'No other Communist leader after Lenin had such an internationalist vision as Fidel,' says Prakash Karat, the CPI-M leader in this eloquent tribute to Fidel Castro who passed into the ages on Friday.
India's boxers Nitu Ghanghas won the women's 48kg Commonwealth Games title before Amit Panghal stormed to the gold medal in the men's 51kg, in Birmingham, on Sunday.
Nancy Pelosi's gritty refusal to backtrack on her plans to visit Taiwan is part of who she is.
The winners of the Open category of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed.
Clint Dempsey recorded his first hat-trick for the United States in a dominant 6-0 win over Cuba on Saturday that put theAmericans into a CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-final against Jamaica.
'My mom and dad were like, 'You see, Ariel, don't let money stop you. You find a way, we find a way, and that sacrifice will be the difference between you and other people'.'
The medals tally at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Currently, Choksi has got interim relief from immediate repatriation to India by the Dominican court.
If you are serious about countering the Chinese threat, then the best weapon is investing in real freedom, plurality, elections and democracy. Unfortunately, it isn't an approach all Indians currently seem to agree on, asserts Shyam G Menon.
Indian boxer Sachin Singh (49kg) advanced to the AIBA Youth World Championship finals after notching up an impressive victory in the last-four stage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday.
The legal wrangling began within days of Maradona's death from a heart attack in Buenos Aires on Nov. 25.
Indian Grandmasters Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Adhiban Baskaran registered wins in the first game of the two-game mini match in the second round of the FIDE chess World Cup in Sochi on Thursday.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday, Day 6.
The map showed all the countries, including water bodies and Antarctica, coloured red, with the exception of the state of California, India, Mexico, Liberia, Cuba and China coloured blue -- the hue of the Democratic party. However, while India was coloured blue, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East states were coloured red.
Cuba will not be able to take part in the Stanford 20/20 Caribbean competition after US authorities denied the competition's organiser permission to deal with the island nation.
Cuba's Olympic team took to the field with only 10 men against Honduras after up to seven players defected.
In front of her home crowd, legendary boxer Mary Kom scripted history by winning a historic sixth gold in the Women's World Championships after defeating Hanna Okhota of Ukraine.
No critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said.
The medal tally at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The 25-year-old from Punjab threw a personal best of 64 metres to finish second in Group B in the qualifying round.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week.
We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the last 24 hours.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, Day 9.
This is 4,000 more than 2016's figure of 46,188 Indian naturalisation and 8,000 more than 42,213 Indian citizenship in 2015.
Showing up for a hearing at the United States military court in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is an ordeal for the detainees and a logistical burden for the American military, which has to transport the terror suspects from the detention facility to 'Camp Justice' inside the US Naval base in Cuba.
It stands to reason that at the meeting on Friday, Pope Francis conveyed to the Kremlin, some message in regard of the developments in Ukraine. The long duration of the meeting in the Russian embassy flags that it was substantive. Indeed, it took place even as the first Russian tank column was sighted on the outskirts of Kyiv, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The 24-year-old proved too good for Viktar Zuyev of Belarus in the final of the Olympic tournament.
Vice President Hamid Ansari, a former diplomat himself, explains his sense of India and the world. Nikhil Lakshman, traveling with Vice President Ansari to Peru and Cuba, listens in.
Tennis great and founder of the WTA Billie Jean King was among those who applauded the announcement.
Lalit Modi has been living quite the high life. Here are some photos to prove it.
The retired 43-year-old star has lived in Cuba for four years recovering from drug abuse.
Modi has the chance to break out of India's passive mode and firmly tell Russia that in this day and age, India will not support unilateral invasions, asserts Harishchandra Dighe.
The Western world keeps talking, ratcheting up sanctions, the only thing it can do. The Russians march on to Kyiv and capture Zelensky and key members of his government as part of their 'de-Nazification' drive, predicts Shreekant Sambrani.
