Devjyot Ghoshal

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If there were any doubts that the beautiful game was altogether blighted, the stunning arrest of senior FIFA officials in Zurich this morning should put an end to such optimism.

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It all began with a single tweet at 6PM on May 18.

Since it began operations in India a little over a decade ago, Singapore’s DBS bank has opened around 12 branches in the country. In the next five years, however, it wants to open five times that number.

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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi just tweeted another selfie—not so surprising given his love for the photo format. But who it was with, and where it was taken, are somewhat shocking.

Beyond Narendra Modi’s museum photo-ops and temple tours, the Indian prime minister’s visit to China isn’t turning out to be the big reset between the two Asian economies that some had expected.

In October 1954, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru set off on what was described as the “most important foreign mission of his life”: A trip to China.

First witness reports testify that Wednesday (May 13) morning’s attack in Karachi on a Shia Ismaili bus was conducted with precision.

From touristy Thamel to the residential Tangal neighbourhood, the embassy area of Lainchaur to Lalitpur in the outskirts, Kathmandu was, yet again, out in the open for the night.

A little over two weeks after a massive earthquake-ravaged Nepal, the struggling Himalayan nation has just been hit by a big 7.3 magnitude quake.

By some accounts, Rishi Sunak, a 34-year-old Oxford and Stanford graduate, was part of a Conservative Party experiment to increase the ranks of minority politicians in an organisation that is still overwhelmingly white.

By the end of his interview with TIME magazine, prime minister Narendra Modi was in tears. That’s because after two hours of questions and answers the conversation finally turned to Modi’s difficult childhood.

India’s roads are among the deadliest in the world—and a legion of inebriated drivers make them even worse.

KATHMANDU—The blackened funeral pyres by the Bagmati river at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu’s largest Hindu open air crematorium, haven’t stopped burning all week.

When Nepal’s worst earthquake in 80 years hit around noon on April 25, the country’s prime minister Sushil Koirala was reportedly flying to Bangkok for a personal medical treatment, after attending the Asian-African summit in Indonesia.

Already handwritten posters have begun appearing on the walls of Kathmandu, with warnings for the survivors of the deadly earthquake that razed entire sections of Nepal’s capital city on April 25.

Dutch climber Eric Arnold initially thought that a friend was joking around and shaking his tent. Then, the ground below him started shaking. Lying inside his tent at base camp under Mount Everest, Arnold realised that he was being rattled by an earthquake.

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A little before noon local time, a massive earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit 77km (48 miles) northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, sending strong tremors through the landlocked Himalayan nation and across northern India.

For years now, Shashikala Ramesh Patankar—aka Baby—was a prominent fixture in the drug peddling circuit of India’s financial capital. And, in recent times, her speciality was supplying a party drug called mephedrone, which also goes by street names including drone, M-Cat, Bubbles—and Meow Meow.

One of India’s most internet unsavvy political heavyweights has decided to turn crusader for net neutrality.

It was December 1947, just months after India’s independence, when an Indian side led by Lala Amarnath faced Don Bradman’s Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.