But you should be watching the men’s discus throw event at the 21st Asian athletics championships, which begin in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday, very closely. For it pits Vikas Gowda, the country’s lone world class athlete, against Iran’s O ....

Rarely injured and appearing in a 62nd consecutive major, Federer received treatment on his right hand from a trainer during a second-set tie-break. For years and years, a dominant and confident force in tennis, Federer slumped in his changeover chair, head bowed, after ....

“As Bastar collector, you received the Prime Minister on May 9 at Jagdalpur airstrip. However, the government has noticed that you did not wear proper clothes while receiving the PM and also sported sunglasses,” reads the notice issued to Mr. Kataria by Mr. ....

But the move comes with a message that any further cut this year is unlikely. Articulating the concerns of the RBI over the expected poor monsoon and crude oil prices, Governor Raghuram Rajan expressed fears that a monsoon shock could push up food prices and challenge i ....

 The unusual heat wave in May, followed by the delay in monsoon by a week, is a definite manifestation of climate change, Union Minister for Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday. Announcing the likelihood of a deficient southwest monsoon this year, Mr. Vardh ....

Jagdish Singh’s identity was confirmed after police recorded a witness statement of the owner of a retail shop where he worked. Police recorded a witness statement of the owner of a retail shop who admitted to holding Jagdish’s passport. Singh died on ....

 In an attempt to woo farmers in Bihar, the BJP today announced that it will provide them “interest-free agriculture loans” if the party comes to power in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state. “Zero interest will be charged from them be ....

India will be a member of a consortium of countries that will implement the Global Apollo Programme — a plan to find ways within the next 10 years to make green energy clean cheaper to produce than energy drawn from coal, gas or oil. The plan is the brainchild of a ....

The members staged a placard-holding protest inside the premises of the institution in Chennai, even as the media was not allowed entry to cover the agitation. The agitating members were seen raising slogans against the management of IIT-Madras, demanding that their ....

Of four questions raised during the survey, the question that continues to see perceptible division between the Sinhalese and the Tamils is about the work done by the government to address the root causes of the ethnic conflict. Thirty five per cent of Sinhalese resp ....