India Rio 20

Counting of votes is complete in the three north east states - Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura. The BJP under its state chief Biplab Kumar Deb and along with its ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura won 43 seats. CPI(M) leader and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who has been in power for 20 years, has reached the end, with the party getting 16 se...

While SV Sunil still carries the wrist injury, which he had suffered during Indian hockey team's encounter against Canada at the Rio Olympics, Manpreet Singh has picked up a groin injury and will miss the Asian Champions Trophy to be played in Malaysia in October

The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is the first time that the Games are being held in South America

The International Paralympic Committee, on May 31, decided to lift the ban on the Paralympic Committee of India with the sole purpose of allowing para-athletes of the country to compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games under the tricolour

Within an hour of the start of the Vibrant Gujarat Business Summit, three major industrialists had pledged investment of over Rs 1,20,000 crore in the state.

Iconic cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar has advocated "systemic changes" in Indian sports so that "12 medals in next Olympics in Rio or 20 in 2020 is not a pipe dream".

Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...

To quote from the Prime Minister's speech at the Rio+20 summit here in Brazil: "Sustainable development (also) mandates the efficient use of available natural resources. We have to be much more frugal in the way we use natural resources. A key area of focus is energy. We have to promote, universal access to energy, while, at the same time, promotin...

India may soon be allowed to export rice to China, an Indian official said after a meeting between Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao.

Some large economies show significantly lower growth when natural assets such as forests and water are factored into growth indicators.

Counting of votes is complete in the three north east states - Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura. The BJP under its state chief Biplab Kumar Deb and along with its ally Indigenous People's Front of Tripura won 43 seats. CPI(M) leader and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who has been in power for 20 years, has reached the end, with the party getting 16 se...

While SV Sunil still carries the wrist injury, which he had suffered during Indian hockey team's encounter against Canada at the Rio Olympics, Manpreet Singh has picked up a groin injury and will miss the Asian Champions Trophy to be played in Malaysia in October

The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is the first time that the Games are being held in South America

The International Paralympic Committee, on May 31, decided to lift the ban on the Paralympic Committee of India with the sole purpose of allowing para-athletes of the country to compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games under the tricolour

Within an hour of the start of the Vibrant Gujarat Business Summit, three major industrialists had pledged investment of over Rs 1,20,000 crore in the state.

Iconic cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar has advocated "systemic changes" in Indian sports so that "12 medals in next Olympics in Rio or 20 in 2020 is not a pipe dream".

Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...

To quote from the Prime Minister's speech at the Rio+20 summit here in Brazil: "Sustainable development (also) mandates the efficient use of available natural resources. We have to be much more frugal in the way we use natural resources. A key area of focus is energy. We have to promote, universal access to energy, while, at the same time, promotin...

India may soon be allowed to export rice to China, an Indian official said after a meeting between Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao.

Some large economies show significantly lower growth when natural assets such as forests and water are factored into growth indicators.