Rio Summit

Usain Bolt clocked a season's best of 19.78 seconds to win his semi-final race and qualify for the summit clash of the men's 200 metres.

The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being breached.

India settled for a silver medal in its best ever Champions Trophy performance after the spirited side went down 1-3 to world champions Australia in a summit clash penalty shootout

Decades of diplomatic efforts to tackle climate change culminated in Paris on Saturday with a common vision for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and throwing a lifeline to vulnerable countries.

France will share counterterrorism intelligence with Brazil ahead of next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the foreign ministers of both countries said in a press conference in Brasilia on Sunday.

Big corporates - including the Ambanis, the Adanis and the Birlas as well as Suzuki and Rio Tinto from abroad on Sunday committed to investing about Rs 2 lakh crore and creating more than 50,000 jobs, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to make India the 'easiest' place to do business with a stable policy and tax regime.

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.

Green groups hoped for a big turnout at a protest in Lima today aimed at heaping pressure on ministers haggling over a post-2020 deal to curb carbon emissions.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to Brazil for a summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries which will be held between July 15 and 17 in the city of Fortaleza. The World Cup final will be held in Rio de Janeiro on July 13.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a five-day visit to the US during which he will hold summit talks with President Barack Obama as well as address the UN General Assembly. Below is the statement by the PM prior to his departure:

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke to the media on his way back from Mexico where he attended the G20 meet, after which he participated in a conference in Rio, followed by a brief stopover in South Africa.

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...

If you missed our coverage, here are the top 10 stories of the day.

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...

Manmohan Singh today hit out at industrialised countries over the issue of carbon emissions.

Usain Bolt clocked a season's best of 19.78 seconds to win his semi-final race and qualify for the summit clash of the men's 200 metres.

The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being breached.

India settled for a silver medal in its best ever Champions Trophy performance after the spirited side went down 1-3 to world champions Australia in a summit clash penalty shootout

Decades of diplomatic efforts to tackle climate change culminated in Paris on Saturday with a common vision for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and throwing a lifeline to vulnerable countries.

France will share counterterrorism intelligence with Brazil ahead of next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the foreign ministers of both countries said in a press conference in Brasilia on Sunday.

Big corporates - including the Ambanis, the Adanis and the Birlas as well as Suzuki and Rio Tinto from abroad on Sunday committed to investing about Rs 2 lakh crore and creating more than 50,000 jobs, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to make India the 'easiest' place to do business with a stable policy and tax regime.

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.

Green groups hoped for a big turnout at a protest in Lima today aimed at heaping pressure on ministers haggling over a post-2020 deal to curb carbon emissions.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to Brazil for a summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries which will be held between July 15 and 17 in the city of Fortaleza. The World Cup final will be held in Rio de Janeiro on July 13.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a five-day visit to the US during which he will hold summit talks with President Barack Obama as well as address the UN General Assembly. Below is the statement by the PM prior to his departure:

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke to the media on his way back from Mexico where he attended the G20 meet, after which he participated in a conference in Rio, followed by a brief stopover in South Africa.

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...

If you missed our coverage, here are the top 10 stories of the day.

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...

Manmohan Singh today hit out at industrialised countries over the issue of carbon emissions.