Soccer's global apex body FIFA says it has "two different contingency plans" in mind in case Kochi fails to meet the May 15 deadline to rev up renovation work for the U-17 World Cup, taking place in India for the first time. A Kerala minister is confident of the deadline being met. ...
It's the "holey" season in the American capital. The President wants to plug the constant leaks. The mayor has kicked off the annual "Pothole Palooza" to fill up thousands of pockmarks dotting the streets of Washington....
Almost precisely 20 years to the day since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) came into force, the United States has launched a military strike against Syria for using them against its own civilian population....

Sonia Gandhi was the de facto Prime Minster for a decade and in doing so diminished the role of the incumbent, Manmohan Singh, and ruled the country without accountability, in the process, overturning the reforms initiated by P.V. Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, says Tavleen Singh, a well-known political columnist....
On April 3, 2017, Arjun Bharadwaj, a 24-year-old management student, committed suicide by jumping out of a 19th-floor hotel room in Mumbai. Media reporting suggested he had been depressed about failure in exams and repeatedly talked about ending his life on social media. There were also suggestions he was battling drug addiction....
Former BJP parliamentarian Tarun Vijay on Friday apologised for his controversial remarks on South Indian people, that he made to deny allegations of racism in India. He said he had been misinterpreted....
With Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh having declared that he will not contest any more elections, the Congress, which returned to power in the state last month after a decade, has two important issues to mull over. ...
"Get out of my country." shouted Adam Purinton, shooting Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, wounding Alok Madasani, also 32, and wounding American Ian Grillot, 24, who was shot as he tried to intervene at the Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas. We in GCIC join the entire nation in mourning the death of such a bright, ...

Hedonistic parties high on sex and lingerie-clad models have been intrinsic parts of Playboy boss Hugh Hefner's life. But makers of "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story" have put his commitment towards the social and cultural landscape in the spotlight in the forthcoming docu-series....
Knowing what I know today, if I could reverse my life, I would not come back,†he said. ...