A second-string Indian men’s hockey team will have to tactfully deal with the pressure when it opens its title defence against arch-rivals Pakistan in the Asia Cup here on Monday. While Pakista...

“Like one with quartan fever’s chill so near.” Dante Alighieri wrote this about a malaria patient’s trepidation before the paroxysmal fevers. He himself died in the Roman marsh...

Rescuers in Gujarat are picking up dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds every day as a scorching heatwave dries out water sources in the state’s biggest city, veterinarians and animal rescue...

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu eked out a thrilling win over China's He Bing Jiao to make it to the women's singles semifinals of the Badminton Asia Championships here on Friday. With th...

Air India in its notice to the CCI said “the proposed combination will not lead to any change in the competitive landscape or cause any appreciable adverse effect on competition in India, irresp...

A partial solar eclipse and a total lunar eclipse will take place, at the end of this month and the middle of the next, respectively.  Kolkatans will miss both the eclipses. Debiprosad Duari, f...

When Antonio Gramsci wrote that in many ways, “every speaking being has a personal language of his own”, he might have well been referring to India, a land with 19,500 mother tongues. So i...

The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, a joint initiative of India and Japan, was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting of the African Development Bank in 2017. It was to be a collaborative...

The price of groceries was going up everywhere Souad Amer checked, so it was with nervous hope that she waded into a government-subsidised market in her Cairo neighbourhood where a loudspeaker blared ...