India’s interim coach Roelant Oltmans knows that the upcoming Asia Cup men’s hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia — a qualification event for the World Cup next year — could be make or break for his young squad.
So far, no Asian team has qualified for the mega-event, and the competition will be intense with just the winners going through.

A group of 12 juvenile delinquents created ruckus at the Juvenile Detention Centre in Majnu Ka Tila on Thursday, demanding better food and facilities.

The Delhi high court on Thursday pulled up the civic agencies and other public bodies for their failure to stop waterlogging in the city this monsoon and directed their heads to fix responsibility on the officers and make them accountable.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday sought to assuage feelings in India by expressing “sadness” over the recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) and “loss of precious human lives” that sparked tensions between the two countries.

Singapore: On August 6, three weeks after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) began engineering an increase in short-term money market rates to attract speculators, the Indian currency slid to a new reco

Italian authorities have handed over to CBI transcripts of telephone conversations intercepted by them in the VVIP helicopter scam, a move that may help the agency in expediting its probe in the case.

BJP Thursday said after defence minister A.K. Antony’s clarification on the killing of Indian soldiers along the LoC, the issue is closed but maintained that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should not hold talks with his Pakistan counterpart during his US visit.

Amid heart-rending scenes, the mortal remains of five Army jawans killed by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) were Thursday consigned to flames with full military honours in their respective villages in Bihar and Maharashtra.

Amid the raging controversy over IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal’s suspension issue, the Centre on Wednesday constituted a three-member panel to probe allegations of illegal sand mining in Gautam Budd

The Congress remained firm on its decision to create a separate Telangana state.