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Unnerved by Trump's stand on Taiwan, China flexes muscle

'Chinese pressure on Taiwan is unlikely to ease till Beijing feels that stability is being restored in the Sino-US relationship,' says former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade. IMAGE: Taiwan President......

China takes a jab at US; sends aircraft carrier to South China Sea

Flexing its muscles over Taiwan, China on Monday sailed its aircraft carrier close to the estranged island amid tensions with the US following President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the......

The sorry state of India's teenage girls

About 77 per cent of girls aged between 15 and 19 in India have been subjected to sexual violence by their spouses, according to a report by UNICEF which said more than half of the girls in......

Decline, recession, stagflation, crisis, crunch...

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except......

Smoking? Nations lose over $30 billion a year

Love for nicotine is weighing heavily on developing nations with top ten smoker countries losing more than $30 billion annually which is more than 6.5 per cent of their gross national income. 1.......

India's record on developing its human capital

The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India......

Anything multiplied by zero is zero indeed!

"Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw." Winston Churchill on the eve of Indian Independence. Sometimes facts......

India's LDCs

Through a biological process, infants grow up, attracted by prospects of adulthood and adultery. There is an incentive towards growing up. However, if there are perverse incentives against growing......

How the FIFA election works

Factbox explaining how the voting system will work at the FIFA presidential election on Friday.CandidatesBahraini Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Swiss Gianni Infantino, Jordanian Prince Ali......

FIFA Ranking: Indian football team drops to lowest in history

Indian national football team during training session. Photograph: AIFF Media In a year when cash-rich Indian Super League created waves and brought Indian football to the notice of the world, its......

Goa Lusofonia Games postponed to Jan 2014

The third Lusofonia Games, slated to be held in Goa in November, have been postponed to January due to the slow progress of infrastructure work. The Games of 'Lusophone' (Portuguese-speaking......

FIFA rankings: Argentina climb back into top-10

Argentina moved back into the top 10 of the FIFA rankings on Wednesday and Brazil also climbed, although the two South American giants were upstaged by tiny Sao Tome and Principe, who leapt 53......

FIFA rankings: Spain cling to top spot

Spain clung to the top of the FIFA rankings despite modest friendly performances this month while Venezuela's impressive World Cup qualifying campaign propelled them to a record high. Once the......

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