LONDON : A former member of FIFA's executive committee was accused Sunday of making payments totaling $5 million to senior football officials in return for support for Qatar's successful bid for the 2022 World Cup.
La Paz: Bolivian President Evo Morales has inaugurated the world's highest cable-car system, which began carrying passengers between this capital and the adjacent city of El Alto at an elevation of some 4,000 metres above
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today expressed confidence that Indian institutions will soon find their rightful place in the international rankings for higher educational institutions. Receiving the first copy of QS university rankings, the President
Paris: China is poised to overtake the US as the world's largest economy this year, earlier than expected.“The United States remained the world's largest economy (in 2011), but it was closely followed by China” once
California: Billed as a game changer in the mobile industry, Facebook has unveiled a new free and open-source service that would make it easier for you to navigate from one app to another and back
New Delhi: There are many religions in the world. Every religion has its own code of conduct, practices, customs which are different in their own way. Some of the practices are painful, but still practiced
New Delhi: To break the monotony of life and take rest from the usual routine, holidaying is a must.Here is a list of 10 countries that are most popular for holidaying with 50 million tourists
New Delhi: The ‘Tower of David' is one of the tallest slums of the world. It is a 45 storey skyscraper which is now home to 3,000 poor in Carcass.The building was built with the
New Delhi: El Caminito del Rey or The King's Little Path, often regarded as the most dangerous walkway in the world, is located along the walls of El Chorro, a gorge in southern Spain near
New Delhi: In a game that is played with 120 balls per side ,it takes something very special effort from the batsman to score a century in this format. In the fifth edition of ICC
Tokyo: The world's longest-serving death row inmate was freed Thursday by a Japanese court that found investigators had likely fabricated evidence in the murder case that put the former pro boxer behind bars for nearly
New Delhi: There are eight nations in the world which have conducted nuclear tests openly, but there are several other countries, which are nuclear powers, but have not conducted any nuclear test so far. There
New Delhi: The Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan was carved out of a mountainside in the 8th century. It is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu
New Delhi: Smugglers transfer goods and people illegally from one country to another. The goods may vary from gold and silver, to drugs and weapons.The practice of smuggling started in the middle ages and continues
New Delhi: The mysterious crash involving Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 is not the first of its kind. In the past, there have been several mysterious aviation disasters, the riddles of which are yet to be
New Delhi: With rapid industrialization and urbanization, road traffic is increasing day by day in the cities.The honking of horns is the first sound we tend to hear in the morning in a city when
New Delhi: There are several jobs in the world which involve risks and danger to life. Yet people do engage in such jobs, either for better pay or for earning their basic bread and butter.For
New Delhi: The fifth edition of ICC twenty 20 world Cup which begins in Bangladesh from March 16 will also mark the entry of latest entrant in world cricket. Its none other than the Himalayan
New Delhi: What makes a city well planned? Is it the order, rules, vision, public transport system, availability of basic amenities?The answer would be a package of all together. While Middle East is undertaking more
New Delhi: India has made major contributions to the world in every field."We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made"
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