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India has improved its performance in Chess in last eight years: PM ModiHighlighting India's contributions in the invention of games like Chaturanga and Chess, the PM said that these games help the brain to refi...- 'No silver bullet': Torch relay struggles highlight hurdles for pandemic OlympicsThe withdrawal by Akiyama and more than a dozen celebrities from the relay, which starts Thursday, underscores the challenges facing organi...
- Tokyo Games relay opens in 100 days with 10,000 torchbearersOrganizers said Tuesday the relay is to begin on March 25 from the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima. This was also to have been the sta...
- Clashes in Seoul during Olympic torch relayThe Olympic torch relay concluded in the South Korean capital Sunday marked by sporadic clashes between pro- and anti-China demonstrators a...
- Olympics torch arrives in Japan under tight securityJapan called for calm, but braced for trouble, at its leg of the Olympic torch relay as the flame arrived under tight security on Friday, a...
- Malaysia calls for politics-free Olympics ahead of torch relayA day before hosting the Olympic torch relay amid tight security to thwart any possible protests over the Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
- Japanese temple vandalised after pulling out of Olympic relayAn ancient Japanese Buddhist temple, which cancelled its role in the protest-marred Olympic torch relay, has been vandalised with white spr...
- Australia fears Olympic torch 'hooliganism'Australia's government fears an outbreak of "football hooliganism" at the Olympic torch relay with thousands of pro-China and pro-Tibet act...
- Olympic torch relay starts amid heavy security in BangkokThai torchbearers set off on Saturday for the Bangkok leg of the protest-hit Beijing Olympic torch relay, witnesses said, with the flame gu...
- Olympic torch arrives in Thailand amid tight securityThe Olympic flame arrived under tight security in Thailand on Friday for the latest leg of its round-the-world relay and was quickly taken ...
- Tibetans scuffle with police, 50 heldAccording to TV reports, a scuffle ensued between Tibetan protesters and police during the parallel torch relay that started from Rajghat i...
- New Delhi locked down for tense torch relayIndia's capital was barricaded and flooded with police and soldiers on Thursday for the latest and most sensitive leg of the protest-hit Be...
- Tight security for Olympic torch relay in DelhiWith few hours left for the Indian leg of the Olympic torch relay, Delhi is witnessing a high-security stretch used for the annual Republic...
- Sachin Tendulkar not to carry Olympic torch: ReportIn a major blow to the Olympic torch relay preparations in the National Capital, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has reportedly announced t...
- Kiran Bedi pulls out of Olympic runAfter Baichung Bhutia, it’s now the turn of the country's first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi to pull out of the Olympic torch relay. Bedi w...
- 'IOC to discuss scrapping torch relays for future Games'Olympic chiefs will this week discuss scrapping international torch relays for future Games, following protests that have disrupted the run...
- IOC mulls abandoning international routes in futureChina condemned protests that disrupted the Olympic torch relay in London and Paris as despicable, but vowed Tuesday to continue the relay ...
- Beijing Olympic organisers vow no force can stop torch relayThe Beijing Olympic organisers vowed on Tuesday that "no force" could stop the Games torch relay, after a wave of protests disrupted its ea...
- Govt decides to shorten Olympic torch relay routeWith China voicing concern over safety of Olympic torch during its India leg, government here has decided to shorten the flame's relay rout...
- Jittery govt gives 2 km for Olympic torchGiving in to Chinese concerns regarding the security of the Olympic torch during its relay here, the Union home ministry and the IOA have a...
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