'No time-frame can be fixed for approaching IAEA'

Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Friday, said no time frame could be fixed for approaching the International Atomic Energy Agency over the nuclear......

Hours after typhoon, powerful 6.6-quake hits Japan

A powerful earthquake has rocked the city of Sapporo in northern Japan just hours after large parts of the south of the country was battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years.  ......

India will approach IAEA, says PM

A confident Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday categorically stated that India would go to the International Atomic Energy Agency, for the safeguards agreement on the civil nuclear agreement......

Hearing aids for PM, Chinese premier

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao are helped by their aides as they arrive for a joint press briefing with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Brazilian President Luiz......

Manmohan Singh's recipe to tackle global warming

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically stated on Wednesday that India would not consider any 'quantitative restrictions on carbon emissions,' and said that the first and overriding priority......

Olympics over the years: All the numbers

IMAGE: The Olympic rings at Odori Park ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Sapporo Hokkaido, July 20, 2021. Photograph: Masashi Hara/Getty Images   The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially......

Tokyo Olympics cost almost twice due to COVID

IMAGE: Neeraj Chopra celebrates with gold medal after winning the Javelin Throw Final at the Tokyo Olympics. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021......

IOC firm on decision to move Tokyo Games marathon

Temperatures in Sapporo, which will also host some soccer games, are as much as five to six degrees centigrade cooler than Tokyo during the day. IMAGE: Athletes go through the motions in the men's......

World athletics boss expects Tokyo Olympics to go ahead after test event

Coe says Tokyo organisers delivered on COVID-19 protocols IMAGE: A spectator raises a paper sign reading 'It is impossible to hold the Olympics, face up to reality' along the race route during the......

Tokyo Olympic marathon to be moved to Hokkaido: IOC

IMAGE: Image used for representational purposes. Photograph: Pierre Albouy/Reuters The Olympic marathon and race walking events during Tokyo 2020 will be moved to Japan's northernmost island of......