Five Things We Learnt From India's Performance Against Ireland

India qualified to the quarterfinals with Canada and Ireland taking the last two positions in the group.  IMAGE: India’s VR Raghunath in action against Netherlands at Rio 2016. Photograph: Hockey India. India chief coach Roelant Oltmans today said two yellow cards hurt the team badly and that resulted in its 1-2 loss to the Netherlands in a pool B men's hockey match at the Rio Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. "We were on the attacking side until we got two yellow ...

NEW DELHI, India - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on Wednesday, urged India to step up responsibility on the global stage, in collaboration with the U.S., while speaking at New Delhi's ... Calcutta News.Net - Thursday 1st September, 2016 ...

NT NETWORK PANAJI/GUWAHATI The pain of FC Goa's last year defeat to Chennaiyin FC may still linger on in a few. As Indian Super League (ISL) kicks off with NorthEast United FC playing Kerala Blasters, football fans in Goa will wait and watch to ...

The Dutch have a great word for it: plaatsvervangende schaamte. Hard to translate, but roughly it means the shame you feel on behalf of others. More painful, perhaps, than personal shame even, especially when you feel it for an entire country; it is ...

Luis Garcia's Atletico Kolkata won the inaugural Indian Super League in 2014 The third edition of the Indian Super League (ISL) kicks off in Guwahati this weekend with North East United hosting Kerala Blasters in the opening fixture. Cricket-mad ...

Long read: The History Thieves by Guardian investigative journalist exposes how Britain buries its secrets. Here he examines its collusion with loyalist killers 36 minutes ago Ian Cobain Sir John Stevens appeals for information about the ...

The deadliest terror attack on the Indian Army since the Kaluchak tragedy on 14 May, 2002 (taking the lives of 12 civilians and 22 security personnel) took place at Uri on the Black Sunday of 18 September, 2016, in which 17 soldiers were martyred.

The Indian hockey team may have one foot in the quarterfinals already, but their fourth Pool B match against The Netherlands on Thursday holds a certain degree of importance. While the new format of quarterfinals gives India a great chance to ...

Known to many generations of Indians as a diminutive but determined woman in a blue-bordered white sari who cared for the poor and destitute, Mother Teresa, who is due to become the Roman Catholic Church's latest saint, also holds pride of place ...