Friday, 31 August 2018

Asian Games: 'Magic' Johnson, Women's Relay Team Burn Track; Hockey Flops

Asian Games: 'Magic' Johnson, Women's Relay Team Burn Track; Hockey Flops

There was no stopping the gold rush from track-and-field as India exceeded all expectations for its best Asian Games performance in close to seven decades but heartbreak in hockey took some sheen off the country's sprint past the previous edition's medal haul on Thursday

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Asian Games: From Kerala’s Mud Tracks to Asiad Podium, Jinson Johnson Makes Up For 800m Disappointment With 1500m Gold

Asian Games: From Kerala’s Mud Tracks to Asiad Podium, Jinson Johnson Makes Up For 800m Disappointment With 1500m Gold

Jinson Johnson was on the podium when the Indian national anthem played out in the GBK Main Stadium on Tuesday evening, but it wasn’t for him. In the 800m final, where he had gone in as a gold medal favourite, Johnson’s compatriot, the unfancied Manjit Singh, came from nowhere to change the script and make it his own.

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SC issues notice to Centre, BJP and 6 states for flouting norms on publishing advertisements in newspapers

SC issues notice to Centre, BJP and 6 states for flouting norms on publishing advertisements in newspapers

Besides the Centre and the BJP, the apex court issued notices to the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chattishgarh and Telangana on a plea filed by an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Delhi.zAam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Sanjeev Jha had filed a petition requesting the court to stop such advertisements.

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Berating country not sedition, right to offend is protected under free speech: Law Commission

Berating country not sedition, right to offend is protected under free speech: Law Commission

"If the country is not open to positive criticism, there lies little difference between the pre- and post-independence eras. Right to criticise one's own history and the right to offend are rights protected under free speech," the consultation paper said.

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Live Breaking News Latest News Updates August 31: Four killed in bus crash in New Mexico

Live Breaking News Latest News Updates August 31: Four killed in bus crash in New Mexico

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Uttar Pradesh: Cops stop man from trading son for his pregnant wife's treatment

Uttar Pradesh: Cops stop man from trading son for his pregnant wife's treatment

Uttar Pradesh police saved a child's life, and stopped the father from selling him for Rs 25,000 for his pregnant wife's treatment.The couple Arvind Banjara and Sukhdevi, resident of Barethi Darapur village in Kannauj, are parents of a four-year-old girl, Roshni and one-year-old son, Jaanu.

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Petrol, diesel prices rise further; check latest fuel prices here

Petrol, diesel prices rise further; check latest fuel prices here

Petrol prices were hiked on Friday across the four major metros. In Delhi, petrol is selling at a price of Rs. 78.52 per litre, implying a hike of 22 paise. In Mumbai, petrol is retailing at Rs 85.93 per litre, a hike of 21 paise from Thursday. Petrol is priced at Rs. 81.44 for one litre in Kolkata and Rs. 81.60 per litre in Chennai, data from IOC app showed. The revised rates are applicable from Friday 6 am.

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Greater Noida: 16-yr-old girl thrashed, forced to drink alcohol, gang-raped

Greater Noida: 16-yr-old girl thrashed, forced to drink alcohol, gang-raped

Two men kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and raped her in Gautam Buddh Nagar district's Greater Noida area. The incident took place on August 24 when the teenage girl, a resident of Dastampur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Jewar police station, was returning home after attending sewing classes. 

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Kerala floods: 483 people killed in deluge, more than 14 lakh housed in relief camps, CM Pinaryi Vijayan tells special Assembly Session

Kerala floods: 483 people killed in deluge, more than 14 lakh housed in relief camps, CM Pinaryi Vijayan tells special Assembly Session

The Special Session of the Kerala Assembly convened on Thursday in the backdrop of the devastating floods in the state. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan annouced that the death toll in the deluge in two phases from May to August stood at 483. He added that 14 people are missing and more than 14 lakh people are housed in relief camps across the state,

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Bihar: Illegal firearms seized from RJD MLA's house in Gaya

Bihar: Illegal firearms seized from RJD MLA's house in Gaya

The Gaya Police on Thursday recovered unlicensed firearms and arrested one person from an RJD MLA's residence. Superintendent of Police (City), Gaya, Anil Kumar said a raid was conducted at the AP Colony house of Kunti Devi, the sitting MLA from Atari, from where two country-made .303 rifles and a country-made pistol were recovered.

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Karnataka local body elections 2018 LIVE: Polls underway in 2,574 wards across 102 urban local bodies

Karnataka local body elections 2018 LIVE: Polls underway in 2,574 wards across 102 urban local bodies

Polling is currently underway in 2,529 wards spread over 29 city municipalities, 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats and in 135 wards of the three city corporations in Karnataka. Elections will also be held to three major city corporations, in Mysuru, Tumakuru and Shivamogga as the Karnataka High Court cleared a case regarding reservation of wards in these constituencies. About 40,000 security personnel have been deployed in cities and towns.

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Exclusive | Bhima Koregaon case: 8 letters reveal links between activists, Naxals, Kashmiri separatists, Congress

Exclusive | Bhima Koregaon case: 8 letters reveal links between activists, Naxals, Kashmiri separatists, Congress

The Supreme Court has sent the five accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case to house arrest till September 6, when the case will be heard next. A battery of eminent academicians have filed a public interest litigation that the arrests of renowned human rights activists was done to seek vendetta and was the Centre's way of muzzling dissent. 

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