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If you are watching the World Cup then you’re seeing high-performing migrants at work

There are 1,032 players involved in the tournament. Of those, 98 were born beyond the borders of the country they are representing.

Messi’s picture garlanded next to Durga & Kali sums up Kolkata’s quadrennial World Cup fever

World Cup gives Kolkata an excuse to indulge in its favourite pastime – dissect, debate, daydream, without actually doing much.

Kiren Rijiju tweets misleading video about football in India

A self-confessed football enthusiast, Rijiju tweets a video featuring a young boy from Brazil, claiming it’s from India.

New video replay technology is taking football to a higher standard in the World Cup

The introduction of Video-Assisted Referees, know as VAR, to the World Cup for the first time this year is making players work harder on fair-play competition.

How costly is the World Cup? That’s complicated

According to our estimate, a total of $14.5 billion in gross domestic product worldwide could be at risk in the first two weeks of the tournament.

Here are 4 of the most politically charged World Cup games ever played

As FIFA kick-starts in Russia, amidst protests over Russia supporting Bashar al-Assad 's regime in Syria, here are some the most politically charged sporting events.

As world celebrates the Cup, a young football team from Kashmir dares to dream big

Out of the troubled soul of the Valley, a local Muslim partnered with his Hindu friend to raise Real Kashmir Football Club

In Gurugram village, youth stand up to the government for their right to play football

Forest dept took over their ground, but the youth fought back through a hunger strike. The govt has promised them another piece of land, but it may take time.

Sport without borders

To build excellence in any sport create domestic competition. In all great sporting nations, inter-state or inter-club rivalries are as passionate as between national teams at the Olympics.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.