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May 23 to be observed as 'Day of Chabahar': Rouhani

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhan during a joint press conference after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran on Monday. Photograph:......

Modi's Pakistan policy has no logic with its quirks and turns

'The Modi regime, after experimenting with its own versions of neighbourhood policy for 18 months, has now reached the exact stage where the Manmohan Singh government had left it in so far as our......

Iconic ancient city in Islamic State clutches

The fate of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra seems to be tragically sealed as the Islamic State militia gained control of the Syrian city. Image: The Temple of Bel is pictured with the......

Egypt President Mursi sacks army chief Tantawi

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi on Monday sacked the powerful army chief and annulled a constitutional amendment issued by the generals, in a drastic move by the new-to-power Islamists to shuffle......

Gaddafi killed by rebels; Libya celebrates

Ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a maverick who had ruled the country with an iron hand for over four decades, was shot and killed by the rebels on Thursday in his hometown of Sirte after......

Global food output needs to rise by 70%

The global food production must shoot up by 70 per cent to be able to feed an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday. According to the......

Soaring food prices: 925 mn people get no food

A top UN agency has warned that rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world's famished, bringing the figure to a total of 925 million. The new figures released......

Poor nations have to spend more on imports: FAO

Poor countries, relying on food imports, are expected to spend 40 per cent more this year than the last year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has said. According to the latest Food......

Shashi Tharoor: The Magic of Bollywood

Shashi Tharoor delivered this speech at the IIFA inauguration in Colombo on Sunday: Aayu Bovan, Vanakkam, Namaskaram, Good evening! At one level it might seem a little odd for me to be addressing......

Pregnant athletes send message of strength to women

IMAGE: Yaylagul Ramazanova of Azerbaijan in action. Photograph: Tingshu Wang / Reuters When an Egyptian fencer picked up her sabre and an Azerbaijani archer steadied her bow, there was one thing......

Oldest And 'Youngest' Olympians In Paris

IMAGE: Australian equestrian Mary Hanna and Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez. Photograph: Kind courtesy Oz Wiltshire/X and Mena/X The Olympics is a stage where the world gets acquainted with some......

Egyptian fencer Hafez competed while 7 months pregnant!

'Three times Olympian but this time carrying a little Olympian one!' IMAGE: Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez competed at her third Olympics while seven months pregnant. Photograph: Nada Hafez/Instagram......

Soccer helps migrants feel at home

Bakhtiyar Yusupov, said he set up the team to make players 'feel at home, regardless of their social status' IMAGE: A boy hangs from a goalpost in St Petersburg. Photograph: Anton......

Sheikh Salman wins AFC presidential election

Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa will run Asian football for the next two years after the Bahraini won a three-way election for the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on......

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