The World Cup winner was put in charge 10 days ago, but local media had speculated that the China Cup amounted to an audition to be fellow Italian Marcello Lippi’s long-term successor. read more

France basked in the glow of six boxing medals in Rio, including golds for super heavyweight Tony Yoka and his now wife Estelle Mossely. read more

India U-23 team will look to shrug off the first-match disappointment when it takes on Tajikistan in a ‘do-or-die’ fixture in Tashkent Sunday read more

The world’s cheapest cities include Caracas (Venezuela), Damascus (Syria), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Karachi (Pakistan), Lagos (Nigeria), Buenos Aires (Argentina) as well as the three Indian cities of Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi. read more

The exercise was announced during the 34th meeting of RATS, a key SCO mechanism, held in Tashkent in Uzbekistan Friday. read more

India got off the blocks early, with Mehtab Singh, Komal Thatal and Rahul KP coming close in the early exchanges. read more

A day before taking on Qatar in a friendly match, India U-23 coach Derrick Pereira labelled it as ‘a perfect opportunity to gauge ourselves before the (AFC) qualifiers’ read more

Minerva, who got the chance to play in this preliminary stage of Asia’s elite club competition as 2017-18 I-League winners, have been struggling whole of this domestic season with just three wins from 16 matches while losing eight games. read more

Besides India and Japan, the other teams in the group are Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, USA and Uzbekistan. read more

The unfamiliar line-up briefly trailed after Eldor Shomurodov’s opener, but Newcastle United forward Yoshinori Muto’s header and Shiotani’s thunderbolt gave Japan their third win in the group. read more

India has already sent a very substantial quantity of wheat to Afghanistan using the Chabahar port. Last month, an Indian company opened its office and took over operations at the Shaheed Beheshti port at Chabahar, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj... read more

The Silk Road, a series of legendary pathways connecting cities is being reborn as a network of highways, railways, and airports linking 65 countries. read more

In the first set, Banthia just allowed his opponent to win one game in seven, breaking his service on remarkable three occasions. In his very first service game in the match, Fomin felt it very difficult to hold his serve, with Banthia taking full advantage... read more

The series of once-legendary pathways connecting cities, from Kashgar to Paro to Constantinople, which originated at the dawn of the common era and collapsed with the fall of the Mongol empire, is now being reborn as a network of highways, railways,... read more

India and Uzbekistan signed 17 agreements across a range of sectors following delegation-level talks led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in New Delhi on Monday. read more