Bengal prisons minister Akhil Giri was forced to apologise within hours of making boorish and misogynistic remarks about President Droupadi Murmu’s looks at a meeting in Nandigram that went viral and triggered social media outrage.

The British Airways will allow its male cabin crew and pilots “wear a touch of mascara” and lipstick. The airline wrote to all employees this week unveiling an updated uniform policy, which encourages staff to “be bold, be proud, be yourself”...

The UK economy shrank between July and September as the country heads into what is expected to be the longest recession on record.

British officials are likely to visit India in December with the aim of concluding talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries in about four months, according to Indian government sources, after the nations missed their initial...

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has withdrawn from the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals as she is yet to fully recover from a stress fracture on her left ankle. Sindhu had sustained the injury on way to her title winning run at the Commonwealth...

Table tennis ace Sharath Kamal will be presented with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award for 2022 by India’s President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on November 30.

Nearly 80 per cent polling was recorded in the second-phase panchayat elections in nine districts of Haryana on Saturday.