Brazil's President Rousseff loses impeachment vote, ousted from office

Vice President Michel Temer was sworn in as new President. IMAGE: Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff speaks at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on Wednesday. Photograph: Bruno......

Why was Mahatma Gandhi blindfolded in Brazil?

In an act of protest against a corruption scandal that has stirred Brazil one artist has blindfolded several 100 statues, including one of Mahatma Gandhi. SEE NO EVIL: A photograph of the statue......

BRICS Summit: Opportunities for India, Russia and China

Srikanth Kondapalli on what to expect from the seventh BRICS summit meeting to be held in Russia in July. The seventh BRICS Summit is to be held at Ufa in Russia on July 9-10. As the rotating chair......

The Week that Was

Here's a look at the events that shaped the world last week. Image: Actor Amitabh Bachchan poses for a photograph after the unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, London,......

Oil's slide below $30 sends shockwaves far and wide

Traders have all but given up attempting to predict where the new-year rout will end US oil stumbled below $30 for the first time in 12 years to levels that threaten the survival of many US shale......

ONGC and RIL's dream of making it big at KG basin has turned sour?

The upstream business is not always about increasing production or produce what was envisioned. There are always surprises. It is not a factory that you put a machine and it produces 20,000 units......

Raghuram Rajan's mantras for growth

Be it escaping the I-T sleuths or securing finance from a bank and not repaying it, Indian businessmen has a way of finding solutions to everything through quick fixes or ‘jugaads’. In......

For Modi's year-old government, storm brewing in rural India

Farmers have little money now to buy seeds for the summer sowing, and meteorologists have predicted the annual June-October monsoon will be below par, which means the next crop may also fail. A......

Football Extras: Chelsea legend Drogba to visit India to meet fans

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Chelsea fans can meet Didier Drogba, as part of a fan event at the Ambience Mall in Gurgaon. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images......

Why Rio risks empty Olympic legacy...

- 'They overbuilt and they misbuilt. They built high luxury condos at a time when the market was about to go bust.' The largest athlete's village in the history of the Games is a visceral monument......

Why half of Brazil is opposed to hosting the Olympics

- The Datafolha polling institute survey published in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper also found that 63 percent of those asked in the latest poll think the Olympics will bring more costs than......

Is Brazil on time for 'safe' Olympics?

‘All the obligatory infrastructure will be finished in time’ IMAGE: Gymnast Rebecca Andrade leads the Olympic torch. Photograph: Getty Images. All infrastructure for the Olympic......

Countdown to Rio Games begins with Olympia torch lighting

Thursday's ceremony marks the 80-year anniversary since the relay, which did not exist in the ancient Greek Olympics, was introduced by the Nazi organisers of the 1936 Berlin Games IMAGE: The......