It's Sharad Pawar vs Ajit Pawar as both NCPs call meet on Wednesday

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership and asserted that there is no alternative to him, while the rival Nationalist Congress......

Bengal to deploy paramilitary forces in 3 districts for Hanuman Jayanti

Following the direction of the Calcutta high court, the West Bengal government on Wednesday decided to deploy paramilitary forces in three districts of Hooghly, Barrackpore and Kolkata during......

Meet the 24 newly inducted ministers in Siddaramaiah's expanded cabinet

Within a week of assuming power, the Congress government in Karnataka has expanded its cabinet on Saturday, filling all posts. IMAGE: Karnataka Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot with state CM......

Chinese economy may be hit harder by war in Ukraine

Amid China's economic slowdown, the country's economic challenges may increase manifold and its economy may be hit harder in the wake of the Ukraine-Russia crisis. IMAGE: An aerial view shows a......

Hutch Tele to book $70 bn post Essar pie sell-off

The Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications International would record a profit of around HK$70 billion, once the sale of 67 per cent stake in Hutch-Essar is completed. The sale is likely to......

Goldman exits China's ICBC, 7 years, billions later

Goldman Sachs Group Inc raised $1.1 billion by selling its remaining shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ending a seven-year old investment and handing the Wall Street firm a return......

Google stops censoring search results in China

Uncertainty loomed over China operations of the world's leading Internet search engine Google as the company stopped censoring web search results and redirected hunt queries from mainland to an......

Asian markets tumble as Wall Street crashes

The Wall Street crash brought down markets across the globe, with Hong Kong stocks falling almost 2 percent on Friday, on investors' fear that the bad US credit situation could blow into a full......

After Hong Kong no-show, Messi plays in Tokyo

IMAGE: Inter Miami's Lionel Messi in action with Vissel Kobe's Yosuke Ideguchi and Ryuho Kikuchi. Photographs: Issei Kato/Reuters After leaving fans guessing about whether or not he would take to......

HK Super Series: Sindhu fights way into semis, Saina knocked out

IMAGE: India's P V Sindhu celebrates. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Rio Olympic silver-medallist P V Sindhu entered the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Super Series after posting a......

India's Asia Cup 2018 wins over Pakistan are historic

Rajneesh Gupta gives us all the dazzling numbers. Twice India have played Pakistan in Asia Cup 2018 and twice they have thrashed them. In the first game, India registered its biggest win against......

Football friendlies: Argentina trounce Hong Kong; Honduras draw with US

Lionel Messi of Argentina in action during the International friendly match against Hong Kong. Photograph: Victor Fraile/Getty Images The Hong Kong Football Association were left red-faced and out......

A champion salutes another champion

Arjuna Award winner Roopa Unnikrishnan's 12-year-old national rifle shooting record was broken by world champion Tejaswini Sawant last fortnight. Now a management strategist living in New York,......