The Taliban have the ISIS in its crosshairs. The Taliban has shown the skill to assimilate extremist elements if they are reconcilable as well as the ruthlessness to eliminate troublemakers, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
Google has posted 61 per cent jump in net income for the January-March quarter and announced a stock split designed to give founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin larger control and make takeover attempts difficult.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw as black against Levon Aronian of Armenia in the second round of the Candidates Chess tournament in Moscow on Saturday.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand had to settle for a draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess tournament in Moscow.
New Delhi should resist any temptation to act as spoiler and instead should cooperate with its SCO partners in reaching a regional consensus behind the formation of an interim government in Kabul, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Swaraj on Saturday left for a two-nation three-day visit to Iran and Russia.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with a draw against Peter Svidler of Russia, while another Russian Sergey Karjakin emerged the new challenger for the next World Championship match after the conclusion of the Candidates chess tournament in Moscow.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand jumped to the joint second spot after signing peace with Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fifth round of the 20th and final edition of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Monaco.
Viswanathan Anand made another strong comeback, defeating Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the fourth round of the Zurich Chess Classic on Wednesday.
It's been 100 years since Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the government, and its legacy remains visible even today in the buildings and monuments scattered throughout St Petersburg.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva will end her 'boring' break from the sport in February, the Russian said on Monday. Isinbayeva will return at the Pole Vault Stars competition promoted by her role model and legendary vaulter Sergey Bubka in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, nearly a year after she said she was taking an indefinite break.
Mandeep Singh struck twice as a below-par India struggled past minnows Russia 4-2 in the first-leg of the two-match hockey 2020 Olympic Qualifier, in Bhubaneswar, on Friday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign with black pieces against defending champion Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the first round of the Corus Chess tournament.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand on Saturday gave jitters to his fans before signing an early draw with top seed Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth round of Candidates chess tournament.
...but are we chasing yesterday's dreams, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine overcame a point's deficit to put it across Russian Vladimir Malakhov in the rapid tie-break games and enter the World Chess Cup final, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. He will take on top seed Boris Gelfand of Israel in the title round.
Israel's ace Grandmaster Boris Gelfand made it to the final of the Chess World Cup following victory over Ukraine's Sergey Karjakin in the second game of the semi-finals, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. In the other semi-final, Vladimir Malakhov of Russia failed to break the ice against Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine despite getting a complicated position and another drawn result means that the stalwarts will have to tackle it out in the tie-break games.
Viswanathan Anand had to be content with second place in the World Blitz Chess Championship after scoring 28 points, three behind the winner, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway.
The US-based marketing guru revealed the secret sauce behind the viral campaign.
Legendary pole vaulter Sergey Bubka reckons the 6.14m mark he set way back in 1994 still remains uneclipsed because his successors are not technically equipped enough.
'I am ready to work for the good of athletics at every level. I understand the challenges that athletics faces and the opportunities on a national, regional and international level that we have'
Indian athletes' schedule on Friday, August 15, the seventh day, at the Beijing Olympics.
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The untimely passing of 47-year-old Rajeev Motwani has left the Silicon Valley community in shock. Here, many of them remember this great man.
Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur coach Andre Villas-Boas will take over Russian side Zenit St Petersburg this week after agreeing on a two-season contract, the club said on Tuesday.
Isinbayeva was under pressure to quit as head of RUSADA's supervisory council after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) called for her removal, one of four steps it said were necessary for RUSADA to retrieve its right to oversee the testing of Russian athletes.
Locked in a fierce battle with the Georgian troops, Russian security forces on Saturday bombarded key military bases in the breakaway South Ossetia province for the second straight day as Moscow claimed that 1,500 people were killed in fighting in the sensitive region.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Bulgarian world number one Veselin Topalov in the ninth round to surrender his sole lead in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice on Wednesday. Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia caught the Indian in lead with an identical 1.5-0.5 victories over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine and Alexander Morozevich of Russia respectively.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
The app was created in a medical hackathon where it was programmed for medical purposes.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw as black against Anish Giri of Holland in the seventh round of Candidates Chess tournament in Moscow.
Internet search engine giant Google has emerged as the world's number one brand and is also the first one to touch the $100 billion value mark.
Internet search engine giant Google has emerged as the world's number one brand and is also the first one to touch the $100 billion value mark.
World champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a disappointing start, suffering a rare defeat against Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow.
Stunned Mexican Sergio Perez said he put in the best laps of his Formula One career to get Force India back on the podium on Sunday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand defeated Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine 1.5-0.5 to jump into joint lead after the seventh round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice, France on Sunday.
Mr Brin has signed up with the space tourism company Space Adventures for priority seating on a mission that would orbit the earth.
After ending the first day of the Blitz category on a disappointing note when he suffered a loss at the hands of Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, Anand was a class act on the final day as he won against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.
Boxer Akhil Kumar on Friday scored a dramatic come-from-behind victory against Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov at the Olympic Games in Beijing, lifting the gloom brought about by the end of India's campaign in tennis and virtual end of further medal hopes in shooting.
