India and hosts Holland are in the same pool for the junior hockey World Cup scheduled to be held in Rotterdam
Nationality in sport has become muddied following the break-up of the Soviet bloc and the transfer of talent from poor to rich countries.
India lost to Cuba in their penultimate league match in the men's Junior Volleyball World Championship.
Thoughy weak in parts, good performances by the lead actors makes this a watchable film.
Diego Maradona plans to interrupt his cocaine-addiction therapy in Cuba to spend Christmas at home with his family.
16-year old Deep Sengupta shocked third seed Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev to move to second place with 7.5 points.
"We are exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America. What we don't want to do is to let out somebody that comes back and harms us," Bush said.
The former Argentina football ace says now he no longer lives for the night.
'There is no acceptable definition of what terrorism is and who a terrorist is.'
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
The transparent masks designed to improve the sport's appeal for fans will be used for the first time at the Athens Olympics.
National Geographic's new travel photography competition is entering its third week and is attracting stunning pictures from across the globe. Some of the jaw-dropping pictures show the famous "Firefall" of Yosemite National Park to a sunset at the Taj Mahal. The annual competition is accepting entries until May 3 at 12pm and asks for pictures in three categories: nature, cities and people.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the eighth round of the Corus chess tournament.
The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Hockey greats Vasudevan Baskaran, M M Somaya and Mervyn Fernandis relive India's gold medal-winning campaign at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
Joining the Bulgarian in the semi-finals of the World Chess Championship are England's Michael Adams, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.
Indian men cruised to a crushing 3.5-0.5 victory over Canada in the 11th round of 36th Chess Olympiad.
'What if Kim is alive as the latest reappearance suggests, but unable to rule?' 'Will his sister be installed as the leader to continue with the Kims's hereditary dynasty that began with the present ruler's grandfather?' asks Dr Rajaram Panda.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a disappointing final round loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to finish joint eighth in the St Louis Rapid Chess tournament in St Louis, on Thursday.
The second seeded GM beat Lenier Dominiguez of Cuba in his fifth round match in the 18th North Sea Cup.
Judge Norberto Garcia Vedia said the 43-year-old could continue treatment "at the clinic of his choice".
The Chinese spikers came back from two sets down to beat Russia in five.
The 21-year-old Liu also became the first Chinese man to win an Olympic track and field title with a remarkable performance.
Their rivals had wishfully predicted a decline but the Cubans remain the masters of the Olympic ring.
Bush administration 'ignoring' international law in treatment of detainees, especially children, at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
US First Lady Michelle Obama has invited a prominent Indian-American doctor, who is playing a key role in fighting the dreaded Ebola disease in West Africa, for Wednesday's State of the Union Address.
Interestingly, India had objected to the establishment of a UNHCHR when it was proposed by the US at the Vienna Conference on Human Rights in July 1993 and the whole proposal was remitted to the General Assembly in New York because India and others said that the whole issue should be examined in detail, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, who had led the Indian delegation for negotiating the terms of the HCHR.
A San Francisco court said the 660 inmates at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be allowed access to lawyers and the court system.
Later American presidents must have rued the day FDR ignored the request.
Behold the breathtaking winning and shortlisted images from one of the world's most prestigious photography contests. The amazing shots are from the open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2020, which received 193,000 entries from photographers in over 200 territories. Scroll down and feast your eyes on our pick of the shortlisted and category-winning entries.
The report documents allegations of reprisals and intimidation in 38 countries, some of which are members of the Human Rights Council.
The United States has not ruled out a visit to the White House by Cuban President Raul Castro, arguing that President Barack Obama has visited countries like China and Myanmar and invited their leaders to America, despite having serious human rights concerns about them.
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