The toll from the series of earthquakes that jolted Japan on New Year's Day rose to 48 on Tuesday, with several more injured, NHK World reported.
Indian women's hockey team midfielder Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke hails from a small village named Asu in Satara, Maharashtra.
The longest partial lunar eclipse on November 19 occurred after 580 years which turned the moon into blood red when Earth's shadow covered nearly all of it.
The Indian Junior Women's Hockey Team emerged Champions of the Women's Junior Asia Cup 2023 held in Kakamigahara.
Murali Sreeshankar clinched a historic silver in men's long jump to give India its second medal in athletics at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Thursday.
Japanese soldiers managed to bring down eight more bodies by helicopter from the ash-blanketed peak of a still-erupting volcano on Monday, before toxic gases and ash forced them to suspend the recovery effort. At least 31 people are believed to have died after a volcano erupted on Mount Ontake on the Nagano-Gifu prefectural border in Japan.
India won their third gold of the competition through Uttarakhand based runner Anu, who clocked 1:54.11 seconds to finish ahead of Iran's Abdolrahim Dorzadeh (1:54.23 seconds).
A regional bank in Japan today started operating ATMs for cash withdrawals, deposits and balance inquiries that do not require plastic cards but instead identify account holders by scanning their hands.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
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India have decided to send an "experimental" side that consists of mostly junior players for the four-nation hockey tournament.
Vinita Xess's goal gave India a 1-0 victory over Korea in their opening match, in the four-nation junior hockey tournament in Gifu, Japan.
India made the grade in the four-nation tournament in Japan after the Koreans beat Japan in the last league match.
A development side, led by Neha Singh, will be looking for "valuable exposure" when it locks horns with teams like China, South Korea and Japan in a four-nation tournament.
As Japan expands state of emergency, calls grow to cancel Games. Japan has repeatedly insisted it will hold the Games despite opinion polls showing a majority of respondents want them postponed again or cancelled.
India registered a comfortable 4-0 win in their last league match of the four-nation hockey tournament.
This was India's second match following their 2-1 victory over hosts Japan on Thursday.
In the men's four-nation tournament in Japan, India play South Korea on Saturday.\n\n
Goals by Arjun Halappa and Sandeep Singh gave India a 2-1 victory over Japan in the four-nation hockey tournament.
Rajinder Singh will be the chief coach in place of Harendra Singh.
Yi Chong Sin scored a hat-trick in a 6-1 victory in the four-nation tournament in Japan.
In the absence of skipper Sardara Singh, the Indian men's hockey team suffered another defeat in the Asian Champions Trophy.
Indian hockey had something to cheer about. Poonam Rani struck twice as India scored an upset victory over higher-ranked China 4-2 in their opening match of the third Asian Women Champions Trophy hockey tournament at Kakamigahara, Japan on Saturday.
When one thinks of cities, one doesn't usually think of beauty and marvellous sights! However, this incredible collection of entries from this year's National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest prove beauty can be found in even the busiest of places.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The Epson International Pano Awards is an extraordinarily spectacular showcase for the world's best photographic panoramas. With entries from over 70 countries, this year's winning images serve up a sublime array of striking shots affirming the vivid immersive capacity of panoramic photography. The overall Open competition winner this year was Bulgarian photographer Veselin Atanasov, with one specifically highlighted image featuring a gorgeous sunrise in Tuscany, Italy. Take a look for stunning shots from the 2018 Pano Awards.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
National Geographic has announced the winners of its prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year photo contest for 2017. And the images are just breathtaking.
Top 21 images of all the events of the week that was.
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