Rio De Janeiro
10 Killed In Brazil Football Club Fire
Feb 08, 2019
Fire swept through a training facility for Brazil’s most popular football club Flamengo Friday, killing at least 10 people, authorities said.
Rio Is World’s Architecture Capital
Jan 19, 2019
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has named the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro as the World Capital of Architecture for 2020.
National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro
Sep 04, 2018
Brazil has begun the process of rebuilding the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro after an inferno gutted its 200-year-old largest cultural and historical institution. At least 90 per cent of 20...
National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro
Sep 03, 2018
A huge fire has broken out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Firefighters were tackling the blaze at the building, which contains...
The shootout on Saturday took place in the favela (slum area) of Caju
Nov 26, 2017
The shootouts left seven persons killed, while the police arrested 11 people
4,400 athletes from 160 countries are expected to participate in Rio Paralympic Games.
Sep 08, 2016
The overall number of athletes in Rio eclipses the 4,302 participants that took part in London and the 3,951 who were registered in Beijing in 2008.
India has sent its biggest-ever contingent of 17 athletes to the Rio Paralympics starting tomorrow.
Sep 06, 2016
Ministry Announces Cash Awards for Paralympic Medallists
Paralympic Games will be held from September 7 to 18
Aug 27, 2016
Children with deficiencies will be given priority in the allocation of tickets
Since the Olympic Games concluded last Sunday, there has been a surge in demand for Paralympics tickets.
Aug 25, 2016
133,000 Tickets For Rio Paralympic Games Sold In Just 1 Day
Sakshi Malik and PV Sindhu
Aug 22, 2016
It was women power, though, which saved everyone, and the nation, deep blushes.
Usain Bolt won the men’s 200 metres dash on Thursday.
Aug 19, 2016
Bolt is hoping to achieve an unprecedented triple-triple: three straight Olympic gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
Narsingh Yadav
Aug 19, 2016
The Indian Olympic Association has said that the embattled wrestler has been defeated by compatriots rather than opponents.
Narsingh Yadav
Aug 19, 2016
After the CAS ruling Narsingh Yadav’s Olympic dream comes to a abrupt halt.
Star Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt after his third consecutive Olympic title in the men’s 100 metre event at the Rio Games.
Aug 15, 2016
The multiple Olympic champion powered to victory in 9.81 seconds in the 100m dash.
India’s ace shuttler Kidambri Srikanth.
Aug 12, 2016
Kidambri Srikanth started his Olympic campaign in superb fashion defeating Lino Muzon of Mexico in straight games in the opening match of Group H.
Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal.
Aug 12, 2016
Nadal, whose participation in these Games was in doubt, withdrew from the mixed doubles event.
London Games bronze winner Saina Nehwal made a resounding start to her badminton campaign at the Rio Olympics.
Aug 12, 2016
The World Championship silver medallist Indian will next take on World No. 61 Maria Ulitina of Ukraine in a Group G match on August 14.
India’s women’s hockey team was outplayed 0-3 by higher-ranked Britain in its second group stage match of the Olympic Games. 
Aug 09, 2016
Britain, despite a 3-0 lead, didn’t sit back and attacked at the Indian post even though they were not able to add any more goals.
The Chinese flag has five stars in the top left hand corner - a large one with four smaller ones to its right.
Aug 09, 2016
Chinese viewers and media were enraged after the wrong Chinese national flag was repeatedly used during medal presentation ceremonies.
The 31st Olympics, the first to be held in South America was formally opened at the Macarana stadium
Aug 06, 2016
31st Olympics opened with colorful ceremony and parade
The Doha Torch Tower lit up with the colors representing Brazil ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Aug 05, 2016
Emblematic monuments and buildings in at least twelve countries were lit up with green and yellow colours to mark the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.
Doping scandal has already cast a shadow on the 31st edition of the Olympics to be held at Rio de Janerio, beginning on Friday.
Aug 05, 2016
International Olympic Committee on Thursday approved 271 Russian athletes to participate in the Rio Olympics.
Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani was on Thursday elected as an individual member of the International Olympic Committee.
Aug 05, 2016
Nita Ambani becomes the first Indian woman to be part of the International Olympic Committee.
The fight was the latest high profile crime in the city where 85,000 police and soldiers have been deployed to keep the peace during the Olympic Games.
Aug 05, 2016
A senior Russsian government official fought back and killed an armed robber, when he was attacked in Rio de Janerio, on Thursday.
Up to 4,500 urine tests and at least 1,000 blood tests will be conducted in the Rio Olympic Games anti-doping programme.
Aug 01, 2016
The Rio Olympics will commence on August 5, in the shadow of the Russian doping scandal which made anti-doping fight at these Games the focus of attention.
Mayor Eduardo Paes says that Rio de Janeiro will don a new look 
Jul 28, 2016
Rio getting ready to make Olympics a grand affair
90 lakh condoms will be supplied for athletes and staff during the mega sports event.
Jul 08, 2016
90 lakh condoms for Rio Olympics
