Google Doodle celebrates opening of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with a cartoon animationGoogle on Friday displayed an animated doodle on its homepage to celebrate the beginning of the event.
04 Feb, 2022, 01.07 PM IST
India pulls out envoy from Beijing Olympics ceremoniesIndia is particularly upset because unlike the West, it kept Chinese sensitivities in mind and backed the Winter Olympic Games, highly plac...
04 Feb, 2022, 09.27 AM IST
Manager of India's Winter Olympics contingent tests COVID positive upon arrival in BeijingThe manager of India's Winter Olympics contingent, Mohammad Abbas Wani, has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival at the Beijing Airpor...
02 Feb, 2022, 10.43 AM IST
How COVID-19 tests and isolation will work at Beijing's Winter OlympicsIt's part of the complexities of staging a big event in the pandemic, because organizers want to ensure they don't fuel outbreaks among par...
27 Jan, 2022, 10.47 AM IST
China's Xi: 'I don't care' how many golds China wins at Beijing GamesChina has invested heavily in winter sports since winning the right to host the Games in 2015, and will also be lifted by what is tradition...
26 Jan, 2022, 03.12 PM IST
Beijing to offer Olympic tickets to 'selected' spectatorsBeijing had already announced that no fans from outside the country would be permitted at the events, and had not offered tickets to the ge...
17 Jan, 2022, 07.51 PM IST
India to participate in Beijing Winter Olympics sans high-level political presenceNew Delhi had made it clear earlier that it will not be joining calls from the West to boycott the Olympics although there is tension with ...
17 Jan, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
Can China win back global opinion before the Winter Olympics? Does it even want to?There had been pressure for Western governments to announce a boycott for months over the Chinese party-state's treatment of the Uyghurs an...
28 Dec, 2021, 10.49 AM IST
China says four Olympic diplomatic boycott nations will 'pay the price'"The US, Australia, Britain and Canada's use of the Olympic platform for political manipulation is unpopular and self-isolating, and they w...
09 Dec, 2021, 01.49 PM IST
Canada joins US, allies in Beijing Olympics boycottBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he opposed boycotts involving athletes but that Britain would effectively be boycotting the Olymp...
09 Dec, 2021, 10.42 AM IST
Britain considers ministerial boycott of 2022 Beijing OlympicsAn outright ban on ministerial and diplomatic representation at the Winter Games remains a possibility, the report said. A spokesperson for...
08 Dec, 2021, 07.32 AM IST
Why does Beijing have the Olympics again?The answer is simple. Potential cities in Europe - as many as six - dropped out of the bidding in the wake of the doping-scandal-ridden 201...
07 Dec, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
India’s support for Beijing Winter Olympics shows it is not natural US ally: Chinese state mediaIndia has strengthened its collaboration with the US, as well as its allies such as Japan and Australia, while India's cooperation with Chi...
29 Nov, 2021, 07.07 PM IST
Xi's “good friend” Putin to attend Beijing Winter Olympics amid US diplomatic boycott plansPutin's visit to Beijing to take part in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in February next year will make him the first state leader to...
23 Nov, 2021, 08.34 PM IST
Beijing offering COVID-19 booster shots ahead of OlympicsChina has been accused of covering up the initial outbreak and stymying investigations into the coronavirus' origins, although it said earl...
22 Oct, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
'Shameless lies', says China slamming Pelosi's call for boycott of Beijing Winter OlympicsChina is currently facing widespread allegations of "genocide" in Xinjiang province where over million Muslim Uygurs were reportedly held i...
19 May, 2021, 08.03 PM IST
China stakes bid for 2022 Winter OlympicsThe bid by the 2008 Summer Olympics host was formally announced by Chinese officials at Sochi in Russia, where the Winter Games are being h...
09 Feb, 2014, 04.34 PM IST