Tokyo,   India's campaign in the Tokyo Olympic boxing competition started on a dismal note as Vikas Krishan was stunned by local hopeful Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa in the opening round of the men's 69kg on Saturday.

Krishan, the Asian Games gold medallist in 2010 and a bronze medallist

Tokyo,  Men's world No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia and women's world No. 8 Iga Swiatek of Poland won their opening-round matches in the Olympics tennis event at the Ariake Tennis Park here on Saturday.

Daniil Medvedev, representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team since R

Mumbai,  Karnam Malleswari and N Kunjarani Devi, two legends of Indian weightlifting, on Saturday hailed Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, silver medallist in women's 49kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics for her determination, willpower, and hard work that helped her recover from a disastrous campaign at the 2016 Rio Olym

Imphal, The family members of Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won a historic silver medal in the women's 49 kg category at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, are elated by her success, though they expected her to strike gold.

On Saturday morning, the diminutive Manipur lifter opened India'

Tokyo,  India, ranked 9th in the world, matched world No 1 Netherlands in the first half but their challenge fizzled out as the Dutch cantered to a 5-1 win in a Group A match in the women's hockey competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

The Dutch took lead through Maria Verschoor in the sixth

Athens,  Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe said that he was optimistic about the "positive" and "bright" prospects of the post-Covid-19 economic recovery of Greece and Europe as a whole.

During his meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on FRiday, Donohoe said that gr

Tripoli,  Libya's Interior Ministry announced that it would launch an investigation into the armed clashes between two of its security forces that broke out in the capital city of Tripoli.

The Ministry said on Friday that has been closely following Thursday's events "which led to heavy shoot

Hanoi,  The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on Saturday enforced the country's strictest social distancing measures amid the resurgence of local Covid-19 cases.

Hanoi's municipal authorities released a circular on the issue on Friday night, saying that the social distancing would go in line with Dire

New Delhi/Kabul,  The Taliban on Saturday slammed the US airstrikes in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, as a violation of the Doha agreement.

The airstrikes carried out on Thursday "would lead to consequences", Pajhwok News quoted Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, as saying

Sydney,  Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters gathered in Australia's largest city of Sydney on Saturday amid a deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country.

New South Wales (NSW) Police Force accused the protest activity as unauthorised and said a high-visibility policing operation was launched