When the bench asked Sibal 'shouldn't we hear the matter', he replied, 'Yes. You shouldn't.'
'Once such conduct becomes legitimate through political and popular sanction, then the ordinary citizen will have no defences left,' warns Shyam Saran.
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Announcing his tax reforms Trump said his policies would benefit working families.
Travel companies Cox & Kings and Thomas Cook explore initiatives aimed at tapping the niche market of travel packages for kids and the disabled.
He said India can have a possible role in creating a multilateral forum of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis.
The Chinese President dethroned Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most influential person on the planet.
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North and South Korea put aside bitter political divisions for 90 minutes on Sunday as their women's soccer teams clashed in a regional tournament in Seoul, with the visitors scoring a decisive win and getting a warm welcome from home-team fans.
Stand up comedian Neeti Palta talks about breaking stereotypes in an odd world.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said it would look into the aspect whether triple talaq is part of an "enforceable" fundamental right to practice religion by Muslims.
Pakistan has strongly denied a United Nations report that members of its government had given consent to controversial drone strikes in the country and demanded an end to such attacks which incite hatred.
Pakistan on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that it was exporting terror, saying the remarks were part of a "well thought out vilification campaign" to distract attention from Kashmir.
'In the name of pluralism-secularism, the kind of politics that was pursued revealed to many that it was basically a favour to Muslim conservatism and communalism -- a politics of minority-ism, rather than of secularism.' 'This is how significant sections of Hindus have been made to loathe the very idea of Indian secularism by now,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Afghanistan said Pak was diverting attention of the international community from its 'longstanding failure' to take effective action against terrorist groups.
Troops from 17 countries, including Pakistan and Russia, formed part of 1000 foreign soldiers who took part in China's first military parade aimed at highlighting the excesses committed by Japanese troops against Chinese in the WW II in which according Chinese historians over 20 million people were killed, eight million forced into labour and thousands of women held as sex slaves.
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Saudi Arabia relies more heavily on migrant labour than any other large country.
'PadMan has its premise in place. Now if only it had some wings,' says Sukanya Verma.
A spokesman from Libya's Red Crescent said that 85 bodies were detected near Libya's capital of Tripoli while another 10 bodies were found near the coastal city of Sabartha.
It is important to approach the belief of people in ancient India's achievements with a sense of proportion, balance and empathy, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The report states air quality in Indian households, especially in the rural areas, is lethal due to use of wood or cow dung as cooking fuel coupled with poor ventilation.
Niloufar Behboudi was arrested by the Iranian government in May 2016 for posting a picture without a headscarf.
'The one thing India has over these two States, whose toughness awes us, is our ability to embrace diversity with ease. 'The way ahead lies in learning from Vajpayee's method, not in Xi Jinping's,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'These protests are not just about the CAA. It is against allowing fascism and religious discrimination to creep into our legal system.'
Sanaya Dalal on feminism, France and the burqa
North Korean pair Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik ended their Olympic adventure winning over the home crowd's hearts.
Photographer John Moore, who took the picture that has come to symbolise the horror of the new family-separation policy in the United States, reveals what happened that night.
Rahul Gandhi has not erred by not engaging with Muslim conservatives. After all, they had misled his father in 1986 to legislate a misogynistic law after the Supreme Court verdict in the Shah Bano case, which helped the BJP rise at the cost of the Congress, says Mohammad Sajjad.
Cereals like millets can help alleviate malnutrition and improve public health, reports Surinder Sud.
'They must take the bull of conservatism within their own ranks by its horns as much as they need to speak out against the fallacies of the non-Hindutva (or 'Muslim-friendly') political forces as well,' argues Mohammad Sajjad.
Since much of the voting was on religious lines, Mamata's rural focus became irrelevant.
When the Muslim Personal Law Board promises 'advisories' and nikahnamas to the Supreme Court, one has to remember not only its recent campaign against any change in Muslim personal law, but also its past record of inaction on the question of triple talaq, says Jyoti Punwani.
'We are completely engaged in fighting poverty; alas, our neighbour Pakistan seems only engaged in fighting us.'
Global growth should have a large impact on the poor, says World Bank.
'What happened last Sunday is a great tragedy, an insult to humanity'
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The two sides agreed on forming a joint working group to oversee the repatriation process but its composition would be decided later by both the countries.
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'If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,' Trump said.
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