Modi, Kamala Attend Abe's Funeral

Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi and other dignitaries from around the world attended the State funeral for Japan's former prime minister Abe Shinzo at the Budokan in Tokyo on Tuesday,......

'Goli bahut bhayanak chal rahi hai'

'Bola nikal jao. Sala firing karte hai Russi.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Bombs are spitting down from the frosty winter sky in Kyiv. But Mahadev Sahay* sounds rather cheerful.......

Shudder! Olympics with Chinese Characteristics

'The Olympic Spirit has been thrown to the wind in Xi Jinping's China.''The International Olympic Committee is ready to kowtow to totalitarian China,' notes Claude Arpi. IMAGE: The Olympic Park......

IBA accuses IOC of breach of data

IMAGE: International Boxing Association(IBA) president Umar Kremlev. The IBA said it was concerned about confidential data relating to its competition officials, adding that the Paris 2024 Boxing......

High jump pioneer and icon Dick Fosbury dies at 76

IMAGE: Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he jumped back first to clear the bar, a technique that has since been......

IOC: Bow to demands to ban Russian or risk boycott

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters The Olympic movement is facing its biggest dilemma since the Cold War: bow to demands to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes or risk the first......

IOC president Bach urges Ukraine to drop Paris Olympics boycott threat

IMAGE: Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has called on......

Russians will be winning 'medals of blood' if allowed in Olympics

'The Russian army is killing Ukrainian athletes and coaches and destroying sports grounds as well as sports halls' 'The medals that Russian athletes are going to win are medals of blood, deaths and......