Asian Games 2018, Day 7 live score and updates: India look to add more medals to...

Live updates and live scores from Day 6 of the Asian Games 2018: India will be looking to build on a very good Day 6 at the Asian Games 2018.

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Opposition priority is to remove BJP from power, then decide who becomes PM: Rahul...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to London, said there is a “massive fightback” against what he termed as an “attack” on institutions under the Narendra Modi government since 2014.

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Delhi's Chandni Chowk Road set to be pedestrian-only from 9am to 9pm

The unified traffic and transportation infrastructure (planning & engineering) centre (UTTIPEC) has cleared a proposal to reserve the 1.5km stretch, starting from Red Fort to Fatehpuri mosque, for pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles.

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UAE airline Emirates to fly 175 tonnes of relief material for flood-hit Kerala

“Emirates SkyCargo will carry flood relief cargo of over 175 tonnes to Kerala, India, joining the UAE community in their support of the people of Kerala,” the airlines said in a statement.

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Withdrawals from 28 countries with cloned ATM cards: How hackers targeted Cosmos...

On August 11 and 13, unidentified hackers targeted Cosmos Bank’s ATM switch server and stole details of VISA and Rupay ATM cards.

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BJP says Rahul Gandhi 'immature and ignorant' after he compares RSS to Muslim B...

Rahul Gandhi said the RSS was like the Muslim Brotherhood, which, according to him, wanted to run every institution according to a particular ideology.

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AAP govt's advisory body was reduced to an inquiry panel: Ashish Khetan

Once a close aide of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Ashish Khetan on Wednesday announced his decision to quit AAP for “personal reasons”. His exit came barely a week after another senior leader, Ashutosh, resigned from AAP citing the same reason.

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Woman in east Delhi kills herself, suicide note says shamed over body

In her suicide note, the woman mentions that whatever step she is taking is for her own happiness. She has written that she wanted to a lot in life but her body brought her insult and that she was trapped in this body like it was a cage.

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Kerala floods: Poor dam management behind disasters, experts say

Though excessive rains filled the dams, experts blamed poor water flow management from the reservoirs for the inundation of the coastal state and many parts of south India.

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Asian Games 2018: Medal mix points to tectonic shift for India

This week, India’s champions have struck gold at a faster pace, won medals in sports as diverse as sepak takraw and wushu, and two of them, gold-medallist Saurabh Chaudhary and silver-medallist Shardul Vihan, are 15 years old.

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Live streaming of proceedings can be started on pilot basis: Govt to SC

Apart from live streaming, the Supreme Court could, in the future, also provide for transcribing facilities and archive the audio-visual record of proceedings to make the webcast accessible to litigants and other interested persons, the Attorney General suggested.

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'A certain degree of arrogance' crept into Congress after 10 yrs of power: Rahul...

The Congress lost the 2014 general elections to the Bharatiya Janata Party after 10 years in power. The Congress won 44 seats as compared to the BJP’s 282 in Lok Sabha, Parliament’s lower house.

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Have made no official announcement of funds for Kerala flood relief, says UAE

The clarification comes amid a raging controversy over the Centre rejecting foreign aid for the southern state, which witnessed more than 350 deaths over the last two weeks.

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When Nirmala Sitharaman sparred with Karnataka minister who asked her to end sp...

The episode took place after the minister asked Sitharaman to end the press conference citing lack of time.

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Refusing foreign aid for Kerala is churlish and narcissistic

India wanted to assert its self reliance; the scale of its economy and the end of any donor-driven influence. But India is not going around asking anyone for help; the offers have come from other nations on their own.

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Not shy of engagement but it takes 'two to tango': Pakistan minister on India t...

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said dialogue was essential for Islamabad-New Delhi relations to move forward as he sought positive signals from India, emphasizing that it “takes two to tango”.

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Rahul Gandhi says PM Modi doesn't have 'deeply thought-out strategy' on Pakistan

Rahul Gandhi acknowledged that it was “very difficult” to converse with Islamabad as there is no single institution there that holds supremacy.

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Donald Trump's immigration policies could disrupt operations of US firms: top C...

The Trump administration’s “inconsistent” immigration policies, including on the H1-B visa for professionals, could inflict “substantial harm” on their competitiveness, CEOs from top US companies warned.

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Survivors of last major Islamic State battle in Iraq beg for food

Since Iraqi forces celebrated victory over IS, life for the Sunni Muslim inhabitants of ancient west Mosul, some of whom welcomed IS’s arrival in 2014, has hardly improved.

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300 evacuated from Egypt hotel after 2 guests die under mysterious circumstances

Speculation over the couple’s death swirled in the media Friday, with some suggesting carbon monoxide poisoning may have been a cause.

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