Even as New Delhi consolidates its global standing this year with a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council, Jyoti Malhotra feels it will be the countries in its immediate neighbourhood that will be top priority for India's foreign office.
Like millions of people across the world, the year 2020 had dealt me irreplaceable losses and the lowest of blows. Like I have always done at such junctures, I had sought the refuge of the mountains. I wanted to end the year on a high, to show the finger to life, says Sumit Bhattacharya after a memorable journey to North Sikkim.
Leading South African scorer AB de Villiers is a doubtful starter for Tuesday's group B World Cup fixture against Ireland due to a thigh muscle strain.
Lara Dutt seemed to have a lot of fun in her last release, Singh Is Bling, but she's in no hurry to sign another film.
Instead of cheers, President Asif Ali Zardari was 'greeted' by shoes at a party convention in the British city of Birmingham but he luckily escaped being hit, Pakistani media reported on Sunday.
Lionel Messi scored a penalty for the third Champions League game in a row with the Spaniards maintaining their winning start to the group stage.
They were stranded on a concrete platform at the bottom of a pillar of an under-construction structure to create a lake at Baghwati Nagar, they said.
More than nine million policies with a combined risk cover of over Rs 1,00,000 crore lapsed in 2008-09, reveals the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda).
Hafpor was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy in 2017.
'If I look in a certain way, have an innocent face, I will only get offers for the girl-next-door roles. As an actor and creative person, you want to explore and experiment more but you don't get the opportunity. That gets frustrating at times.'
Michael Phelps will contest at this week's Pan Pacific Championships in California and is expected to win a host of medals at the event.
As Ronaldo cried over his fate while the moth sat on his eye, some smart folk decided to create a meme out of the situation.
The World Championship is one of the ten qualifying events for the 2020 Japan Olympics.
The next few months have quite a few Move titles coming our way and we've zeroed in on five of the most interesting ones.
Chandrashekhar Sawant halted the train by applying the emergency brake when he saw the debris falling as the train was approaching the collapsing bridge.
Bollywood expresses grief and shock following the Nepal earthquake.
The actor flew to Leh on Tuesday for a visit to the flood ravaged school, where he shot his 2009 blockbuster 3 Idiots as Rancho.
Koothara in colloquial terms means something despicable. Luckily, this film does not live up to its title.
A toe injury threatens to rule Robin van Persie out of the Netherlands' World Cup qualifier against Hungary in Amsterdam on Friday.
A deafening bang and a powerful tremor flung sleeping passengers off their berths as the Delhi-bound Seemanchal Express jumped the tracks.
Images from the action on Day 2 at the Australian Open.
Lionel Messi became the first player to win 10 La Liga crowns with Barcelona and only the third player from any club to do so.
Sachin Gupta talks about composing and singing for Prince.
The 17-year-old Praveen, who hails from a village in Thanjavur district, cleared a distance of 15.68m to finish fifth in the Stage 2 competition on Tuesday night but his good showing in Stage 1, where he was third with a jump of 15.84m, took him to the podium with a combined effort of 31.52m.
'All restaurants and pubs must treat the issue seriously and appoint safety officers. This chalta hai attitude cannot work.'
Sukanya Verma looks at the many, many reasons for marital discord reported in Hindi movies.
Defending champions United States reached the women's World Cup final for the fifth time after an incident-packed 2-1 win over England, who missed a late penalty, on Tuesday.
You don't have to be a nature-lover to appreciate these captivating shots taken from around the world. The Natural History Museum has released its shortlist for its celebrated People's Choice Award -- a title that lauds the very best of wildlife immortalised by the lens. This remarkable gallery of finalists was selected from almost 50,000 submissions from 92 countries. From birds bursting with colour to giraffes to fish we're not used to seeing -- here are some of the pictures.
Santosh Bharadwaj, who was held captive by pirates in Nigeria for 45 days, speaks about his ordeal in captivity.
'There's a cycle of fear where everyone fears each other. We are keeping a distance from everyone,' says Ashish Yadav, an associate professor at Wuhan Textile University. The professor along with his wife Neha Yadav, a resident of Etah in Uttar Pradesh have been stranded since January 22 at their home inside Wuhan University, the epicentre of the coronavirus, which has now killed more than 2,000 people in China alone. The couple had earlier appealed to the government to rescue them and wait eagerly for that Air India plane to come and evacuate them from the living nightmare. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf over the phone, hear their story in their own words.
Afghanistan coach Kabir Khan says his team is unperturbed by India's reputation and will exploit the surprise element to beat Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men in their Twenty20 World Cup opener on Saturday.
Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher set out on the road back to Formula One on Tuesday by testing a GP2 development car in southern Spain.
A century would have been nice but what mattered more was playing according to the demands of the situation.
It was only a fourth win in 20 one-dayers going back to June 2017 for world champions Australia and came at the same Sydney Cricket Ground where their first home Test series loss to India was sealed on Monday.
'The Supreme Court has laid out some very important principles.' 'Let us see if the government will try to circumvent it and subvert the very essence of these principles or if it will comply with the order in the right spirit.'
"The rear engine does not have a proper cooling system as a result of which the engine heats up leading to such an incident. The summer season will be the toughest test for the Tata Nano," says Mahendra Dhruva, national president, The Institute of Insurance Surveyors and Adjusters (IISA).
AB de Villiers seems to make it a habit of being spectacular in whatever he does on a cricket field and the talismanic South African's gravity-defying catch in Thursday's Indian Premier League (IPL) match only added to his legend.
Olympic shooting star Abhinav Bindra on Thursday said that the recent controversy involving the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has motivated him to perform even better.
The two medical students who tortured her -- and filmed her hurtling several storeys to the ground -- were arrested and then released on bail in Tamil Nadu.
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