Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the US had put indirect pressure on the International Olympic Committee to block Russia from the Winter Games, adding it would be a “humiliation” for the country.

The IOC is currently assessing if Russian athletes will be allowed to appear at the event

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss UN reform and other “issues of mutual concern”, the UN spokesman said.

Guterres this week spoke out in defense of the Iran nuclear deal that Trump has refused to certify, descr

Port Blair: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is on a two-day visit to Andaman & Nicobar Command since October 18, Thursday celebrated Diwali with jawans posted in the remote Islands. The Islands are the last strategic outpost of India.

The defence minister was received at INS Utkrosh by lieutenant gove

Odense: Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu lost her opening round match to Chen Yufei of China and bowed out of the Denmark Open World Superseries Premier here.

The unseeded China player edged past the second seed Sindhu 21-17, 23-21 in 47 minutes on Wednesday.

Sindhu started the first game on a steady note but t

New Delhi: A quiet and promising Thursday evening gave way to thick haze and noise as Delhi celebrated Diwali tonight, dashing the hopes of cracker-free festivities, following a Supreme Court ban on the sale of firecrackers in the National Capital Region (NCR).

The online indicators of the pollution monitoring stations

New Delhi: The Delhi Fire Services received over 200 calls related to fire incidents from across the national capital on Diwali.

Officials said though the final figures were yet to come in, they felt there was a decline in the number of calls this year due to a temporary ban on sale of firecrackers by the Supreme

Congress veteran leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram has hit out at the Election Commission for not announcing the poll dates for the Gujarat assembly election.

The leader in a sarcastic jibe on Twitter said that the EC will be recalled from its extended holidays after the Gujarat government has announced all sops.