India will face Lebanon in the first round of regional qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup.
Despite objections from China, New Delhi has cleared Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's week-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh, which will take him to the 300-year-old Tawang monastery among other places, from November 8.
The Indian lost tamely in only 44 seconds to Khashbaatar Tsagaanbaatar of Mongolia in the second round of the 60 kg Group B category.
New York City says the governments of India and Mongolia owe it over $18 million in property taxes on buildings these countries use to house staff of their United Nations missions.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will lead a high-level Indian delegation to the two-day meet that brings together foreign ministers from 43 nations in Europe and Asia.
Some of the Internet and blog war may be out-of-hand and over-the-top but a good deal is highly educative and entertaining.
The city claims in the years-old case that as of January 31, 2003, India and Mongolia owed approximately USD 16 million and USD 2 million each in property taxes on buildings they use to house staffers for the United Nations.
Narjit Singh, Vijender and Jitender Kumar made it to the title round in the 29th edition of the tournament in Bangkok.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi chalked out an easy victory over fellow Indian Abhijeet Kunte to maintain a clean slate after the second round of the Asian Individual Chess Championship in Mashhad, Iran.
China's largest steel producer, Shanghai Baosteel, has set its eyes on Baotou Iron & Steel Group after global steel baron, Lakshmi Mittal's bid for a 50 per cent stake in the Chinese company faltered.
Top archers Jayanta Talulkar and Mangal Singh Champia were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the individual events in Doha.
India had 2.5 points lead over Qatar at the end of the fifth round, but now they increased the lead to 4.5 points.
The second-seeded mixed doubles combination of Mahesh Bhupathi and Shikha Uberoi were knocked out in the first round.
K Sasikiran scored the decisive win as India edged out hosts Qatar 2-1 in the third round of the mixed team's classical Swiss chess competition.
China's first regulation on the protection of the Great Wall came into effect last Friday.
Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy gave India a resounding start on the first day of the 15th Asian Games.
Experts believe human activities in the region make Great Wall protection extremely difficult.
Reports says the Chinese are targeting for 50 per cent of China's trade to be invoiced in the domestic currency over the next five years.
One of China's largest steel companies, Baotou Iron & Steel is in talks with the world's top steel maker, Arcelor Mittal over the possible sale of 49 per cent stake, the official media reported on Friday.
After revising the sovereign outlook for India from stable to negative, Standard & Poor's Director for Sovereign and International Public Finance ratings Takahira Ogawa says the fiscal position holds the key to future course of action.
Allaying apprehensions of an emerging military alliance between them, China and Russia beefed up their ties with 10 "crucial" agreements including setting up Russian nuclear plants and development of commercial aircraft and helicopters.
After their cornering glory in the Commonwealth Games and a promising start to the competitions in Guangzhou, the much touted Indian shooters drew a blank at the range for the second day running at the Asian Games on Tuesday with the pistol markswomen way off target.
The Commonwealth Games hero could only place 36th in 50m Free Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich.
International Master Tania Sachdev guided India to a creditable draw against top seed Russia while her male compatriots thumped El Salvador to remain in joint lead after the third round of the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany. The Indian men's resounding 3.5-0.5 win against El Salvador in the open section kept them in joint lead on six match points along with Russia, Armenia, Germany '1', Spain, Ukraine, Norway, England and Romania.
Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro Ltd said on Friday it has bagged a Rs 368-crore (Rs 3.68 billion) order from a power generation company in China for supply of critical gasification equipment.
Special arrangements have also been made at several places, including the national capital, for people to take bath in rivers on the occasion.
Advani, who at 19 became the youngest world champion in 2003, will lead the Indian challenge at the World Snooker Grand Prix, beginning at Pontin's, England, on Wednesday.
Pune-based Suzlon Energy Limited, the world's sixth largest wind turbine manufacturer, will establish a manufacturing base in Tianjin, a northern Chinese port city, to tap the booming Chinese market.
China's journey up the growth curve has been so fast that the ride down could be equally nerve-racking.
Thousands of vehicles have been stuck bumper-to-bumper, unable to move as road works have halted traffic on China's busiest motorway. Drivers are taking five days to cross the section and with new vehicles adding up to the snaking line, there seems to be no end to the jam in the coming weeks.
China signed border treaties and agreements with Myanmar, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1960s and has resolved the boundary issues with Russia, the Laos, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan since the 1990s.
The idea of a Russia-India-China triangle was first floated in 1998 by the then premier Yevgeny Primakov.
VSO, an international development charity that works through volunteers, invites applications for its Overseas Volunteering Opportunities programme.
South Korea set the first world records of the London Olympics, both in the men's archery competition, with legally blind Im Dong-hyun breaking the 72-arrow mark with 699 points.
A list of all the foreign visits taken up by PM Narendra Modi this year and their outcomes.
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