Can the Panjshiris BATTLE the Taliban?

The Taliban is highly pragmatic and would regard it wasteful to resume military offensive to capture Panjshir.The Taliban's preference, historically, has been to keep the military option as the......

PIX: Horror in Hamas, India's Covid pandemic and more

Here are 10 images that encapsulate all that happened in the week week that was. Smoke and flames rise from a tower building as it is destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of......

Stunning images in building photography contest

The 2019 winners of the Art of Building competition, run by the Chartered Institute of Building, have been announced. Photographer Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz took a nighttime shot of the......

US-India: Why 2+2 may not always be 4

'This is a historic juncture when the US is in great need of an alliance with India to strengthen its hands in the fierce struggle with China in the Asian theatre,' points out Ambassador M K......

10 Super Towers felled by recession

In the heady days of high finance, cheap credit and expensive oil, there was so much money sloshing around the world that it was difficult to find ways to spend it. Many developers, especially in......

Soldier wounded in border clash with India at Beijing torch relay

While many Western countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia, are diplomatically boycotting the Winter Olympics over China's human rights record, Putin will join a number of......

PHOTOS: Defining moments of the decade in Sports

PHEW! What a decade of glorious sporting events we have witnessed. Sportsmen falling from grace, India winning the ICC Cricket Cup in 2011 and then coming up short in the following two editions,......

World Cup: Colombia fall short of 2014 heights in painful exit

IMAGE: England manager Gareth Southgate and Colombia coach Jose Pekerman console Mateus Uribe after the penalty shootout. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Colombia can count themselves unfortunate......

World Cup diary: Mexicans jubilant over win trigger earthquake sensors

IMAGE: American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie and German tennis great Boris Becker. Becker posted this picture on his Twitter handle writing: 'Had the pleasure of watching the football with this......

No tropical paradise? No problem for Germany, says midfielder Kroos

'We are here to play football and hopefully for a longer period of time' IMAGE: Joachim Loew, manager of Germany watches his team train. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images Four......