China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan are on a trip through Europe, his first in five years. First stop was Paris, following which China's first couple will, with French President......
A 108-foot-long incense stick, a 2,100-kg bell, a giant lamp weighing 1,100 kg, gold footwear, a 10-foot-high lock and key, and a clock that simultaneously denotes time in eight countries are among......
China on Friday asserted that any successor to 88-year-old Dalai Lama should be from within the country and his heir needs to have its approval, as it projected the strategically-located Tibet......
The competition for the worst or most perilous 10 years has always been between the 1960s and the 1980s, points out Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: An Indian soldier walks past destroyed Pakistani tanks in......
The Royal Observatory Greenwich shortlisted 34 images for its Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023 competition from thousands of entries received from all over the world. These shortlisted......
A sales assistant puts back a gold Buddha-shaped pendant after showing to a customer at Caibai Ornaments store in Beijing. Photograph: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters In 1963, when then finance......
According to sources, around 3,000 people are involved in the shady business, notes T E NarasimhanIn a small room with asbestos sheets for a roof in Aathimur village, Pavithra, 23, recently......
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee should travel to China to see how the Chinese railway system is expanding, says T N Ninan. Will Praful Patel please give Mamata Banerjee a ticket on some airline to......
Swimming in the Yangtze is not easy, or so web-giant Google is discovering, writes Anurag Viswanath. Bitten by the censorship shark, Google is threatening to withdraw from China over orchestrated......
China's Communist Party hasn't done much in the months ahead of the Olympics to quiet skeptics saying the country should have never been awarded this year's summer games. Among other controversial......
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the Toronto International Film Festival. The COVID-19 pandemic hit us hard, but the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival is a......
Images from the Olympics tennis action at the Roland Garros, Paris, on Wednesday. IMAGE: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in action during his Olympics men's singles match against Germany's Dominik......
IMAGE: Led by golden boy Neeraj Chopra, India will hope to register a record medal haul at the 19th Asian Games . Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Led by Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra,......
IMAGE: The 19th Asian Games is set to officially open on Saturday. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters After a year's delay due to COVID-19, the 19th Asian Games officially opens in Hangzhou on......
Valieva dominates the ice despite doping scandal IMAGE: Figure skater Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee performs in the women single skating short program at Capital Indoor Stadium......