Rajiv Gandhi: 'I Trust Prabhakaran'

As Prabhakaran was leaving his house, Rajiv Gandhi called his son Rahul and asked him to fetch his (Gandhi's) bulletproof jacket.He put the jacket on Prabhakaran's back and remarked with his usual......

Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike

In a targeted airstrike on Saturday, the Israeli Defence Forces struck Beirut, resulting in the death of Eid Hassan Nashar, a high-ranking commander of Hezbollah's Medium-Range Rocket Unit. IMAGE:......

What Will Israel Do Next?

In days of smart, networked technology and no shame over collateral damage, what will blow up next -- cars, mobile phones, TV sets, refrigerators? And where?, asks Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Smoke......

India backs Palestine's bid for full UN membership

India has voiced hope that Palestine's bid to become a full member of the United Nations, which was blocked by the United States last month, will be reconsidered and its endeavour to become a......

PHOTOS: When terror struck the sports world

Previous attacks on sports events, and failed plots, in recent decades, after Monday's bomb blasts that killed three people at the Boston Marathon: - Show must go on for city sport events after......

Timeline: High-profile attacks on athletes

Angolan authorities have arrested two people on suspicion of taking part in an attack on a bus carrying the Togo national football team to the African Nations Cup in which two members of the......

Israel stars twinkle in Hyderabad

Israel will always be associated with the darkest hour in sport after Palestine Liberation Organisation cadres massacred 11 of the country's athletes during the Munich Olympics in 1972.But the......