A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
'Both India and Japan can find themselves in a win-win situation if they draw some lessons from each other's strengths,' says Dr Rajaram Panda.
The army chief said that radicalisation in Kashmir was being addressed with a "lot of seriousness"
The man sought after by parents when they want to admit their children to Ivy League colleges tells Anjuli Bhargava how a hobby became a source of livelihood.
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
'...that it cannot accommodate dissent and objection.' 'Are its foundations so delicate that it feels endangered even in instances outside of armed rebellions?' 'The question that needs to be asked of the political supporters of such laws is not why they are confident of the importance of the law on sedition.' 'It is instead why they are lacking in such confidence about India.'
While a police official said that over 15,000 people were present inside the sprawling ground in the garrison city, private estimate put the number of those attending the funeral nearly 1,00,000.
A sacked Delhi police head constable, who was caught on camera hitting a woman with a brick, was on Saturday granted bail by a court in New Delhi which observed there was no evidence to substantiate the charge of bribe against him.
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday remanded to 14 days in judicial custody a sacked head constable of Delhi Police, who had allegedly hit a woman with a brick after she refused to give him a bribe.
Most women are searching for freedom within families, not freedom from families. They want to find the 'I' within the 'We' as they navigate the world inside and outside their homes, says Deepa Narayan.
Senior living services, Tara Singh Vachani tells Anjuli Bhargava, could be a big business opportunity in India.
The court also said that under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, even intermediaries like social media platforms Google, Facebook and Yahoo could be held liable for penal action for display and circulation of photos and name of the victim by others.
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Woefully inadequate infrastructure is just one of the many reasons why a case is not settled within 180 days and even 270 days as envisaged by the law, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'If the bulk of the Pakistan population and the all powerful army are now against radical elements, there is indeed hope that Pakistan's India policy will be more realistic and less ideology driven,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Asaram is also facing a rape case in Surat in Gujarat in which the Supreme Court earlier this month gave five weeks time to the prosecution to complete the trial.
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Curfew was lifted on Monday from all parts of riot-hit Muzaffarnagar, ten days after it was imposed, as the administration found the situation "conducive" for scaling down the high alert.
'The Indian State needs to focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and law and order, and get out of all these regulatory cholesterols.' 'Then, India will fly.'
Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu unit General Secretary V Ramesh was hacked to death by unidentified assailants near his house in Salem on Friday night, the police said.
The three former office-bearers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, who had resigned from the party in protest against the Centre's handling of the raging row at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, said they were being "mocked" at for supporting the BJP's student wing and the "guilt" made them take the strong step.
'The reason the protests are not happening in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Noida is that there are options available to the youth in those cities. And many people can access this sort of job because most of them are armed with English, integrating them into the global economy. This is something not available to most youth in Gujarat (the government schools do not teach English till Class 5),' says Aakar Patel.
Details on the Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah aka Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena, the outfit responsible for the violence that claimed 24 lives in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, including that of two police officials, are slowly emerging.
Describing the current United States immigration system as "completely backwards", Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said the country needs a system of "high walls and a broad gate".
Anger problems, however, don't crop up overnight. The signs are usually present at least two years before a major outburst comes to light.
A head constable of Delhi Police on Monday hit a woman with a brick after an altercation following which he was arrested and dismissed from service as the incident triggered widespread outrage.
Giving a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Gujarat police on Friday filed a closure report in a metropolitan court in a case of alleged violation of model code of conduct during the Lok Sabha election. "We have filed a closure summary report before the metropolitan court number 11 today," a senior officer of the Detection of Crime Branch said.
Khan stressed on taking austerity measures, working on tax reforms instead of taking loans, rooting out corruption.
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The man who inspired Dangal tells Saurabh Duggal how the quest for an Olympic gold began.
In a stinging letter, the three wrote, 'We cannot be mouthpiece of such a government which has unleashed oppression on student community'.
The International Cricket Council might have confirmed that the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir can return to cricket after the expire of their bans, but a divided house seems to have emerged in Pakistani cricket.
The CBSE will declare the date of re-examination probably on Monday or Tuesday.
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In his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat which he began by paying tributes to the 18 soldiers who died in the Uri attack on September 18, Modi said, "this cowardly act was enough to shake the entire country. There is mourning as well as anger in the country."
IMAGES from the matches played during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, at Wimbledon in London on Thursday
Heavy rains lashing Mumbai since Sunday have thrown rail, air and road traffic out of gear, with several trains and flights being cancelled. With IMD forecast of heavy rains for Tuesday, the authorities declared a holiday in the city and adjoining regions, asking people to avoid stepping out of their houses.
Donovan Livingston, a master's graduate from Harvard university delivered a poetic address to the graduating class of 2016.
While the Chhattisgarh police charged the well-known academic with a tribal man's murder, those who know her say it is vendetta at play.
The appeal would come up for hearing on Friday before Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav.
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