As another eventful year draws to a close, Rediff.com gives you a pictorial look back at the best and worst moments that shaped the sports stories this year.
The commitment by Japan to invest $35 billion or 3.5 trillion YEN is for infrastructure sector over five years.
From potential dark horses to former champions, here are the players who were knocked out of the Australian Open on Thursday
IMAGES of the all the action from Day 2 of the Australian Open played at Melbourne Park on Tuesday
A tribute to all the Delhi auto rickshaws and autowalas we come across everyday!
This test fire is the second time in less than a month and followed the sixth and most powerful nuclear test by North Korea to date on September 3.
Sahara Force India made it official that Mexican driver Sergio Perez will continue racing with the team in 2015 and beyond.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal bowed out of the $250,000 India Open Super Series after a straight games defeat to world No 2 Yihan Wang in the quarter-finals of the women's singles at the Siri Fort complex in Delhi on Friday.
Year 2017 will be a benign year for FII flows into India feels Akash Singhania, deputy chief investment officer, DHFL Pramerica Asset Managers.
Akito Tachibana, who took charge as managing director at Toyota's India operations from April 2016, talks to Ajay Modi on Delhi diesel car ban and DeMo.
In his most recent gesture, Yogeshwar Dutt refused dowry and took just Rs 1 as shagun for his wedding.
It's time you added these places to your bucket list.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited ASEAN leaders to be the chief guests.
Want to listen to Hollywood's golden couple's love story that spawned six kids, several social causes in nine years? Huddle up!
Marcelo Lippi's first game as China coach ended in a 0-0 draw with Qatar in a World Cup qualifier in Kunming on Tuesday, seriously damaging both team's hopes of reaching the finals in Russia.
Images from the Australian Open matches played at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.
It's a truly bizarre world we live in... These images prove it.
Here's your weekly digest of odd photos from around the world.
Women archers were on target in the individual events, while Manoj Kumar scripted a triumph of the underdog in the boxing ring on the fifth day of the Rio Games.
Germany's Nico Rosberg put Mercedes on pole position for Sunday's Japanese Formula One Grand Prix with championship-leading teammate Lewis Hamilton joining him on the front row.
Keisuke Honda announced his retirement from international football following Japan's elimination from the World Cup at the hands of Belgium on Monday night.
France midfielder Paul Pogba said the finals in Russia might be his last World Cup but he hopes he will be fit for more.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
In 2014, Tata group had launched Tata Engage, a group volunteering programme that already has participation of over 55,000 employees of the group from over 100 companies spread across 65 countries.
Accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama lay flowers at the cenotaph in Hiroshima, which sits in the shadow of a domed building, whose skeleton has been left standing in silent testament to the victims of the first ever nuclear attack.
According to a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an independent, think tank dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive and tangible measure of progress, India ranks 143rd
Shot in 2014, these images from across the globe will tell that it is a crazy world out there!
Here's your weekly digest of photographs that prove that it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there!
Blue light-emitting diodes help create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs and promises to revolutionise the way the world lights its homes and offices.
Thirteen women, who have broken gender stereotypes, reveal what it takes to do a 'man's job'.
Several places in Arunachal Pradesh, including capital Itanagar, were cut off by floods and landslides.
Indian-American business leaders meet to discuss ways to make this initiative a success.
Check out the gold medallists on Day 12 of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
Niren Bhavanani tells us why Pokemon Go is officially more popular than Tinder.
Haryana on Wednesday honoured its 'daughter' Sakshi Malik by appointing her as brand ambassador of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign and presenting the Olympic bronze medallist a cheque of Rs 2.5 crore.
Haryana wrestler Sakshi Malik has come a long way in her fairy-tale journey to etch her name in the sporting history of the country.
'Whether he will apologise or not is not a problem.' 'I want him to make an effort to create a new world, by learning from history.'
IMAGES of the all the action from Day 1 of the Australian Open played at Melbourne Park on Monday
The high-speed train line in a region already well-connected by rail, road and airways may have to struggle to stay viable