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Doklam standoff: China blinks, goes from high-pitched rhetoric to sober narrative on India

Read to know how China and its media have softened their stand on the border conflict, and have gone from threatening India to now suggesting more sober solutions to the problem.

Aug 17, 2017

25 Rajdhani passengers drugged, looted of Rs 15 lakh

About 25 passengers on board the August Kranti Rajdhani Express were drugged and looted of Rs 15 lakh. Read on to know what happened.

Aug 17, 2017

Baltimore removes all 4 Confederate statues

Per a unanimous vote by the Baltimore City Council the Robert E. Lee and amp; Stonewall Jackson Monument, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Confederate Womens Monument and the Roger B. Taney Monument were all taken down. This happened hours after President Trump reiterated that both sides were at fault during the Charlottesville, VA violence. Other cities such as Memphis, Tenn.; Lexington, Ky., Jacksonville, Fla. and Washington, D.C.are considering eliminating their own Confederate statues according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 700 Confederate monuments and statues remain on U.S. public land.

Aug 16, 2017

Floods in India: Death toll in Assam and Bihar rises; water levels recede in West Bengal

The heavy downpour has left hundreds dead and lakhs affected across the country. People have been forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in rescue camps set up by the respective state governments.

Aug 16, 2017

US sanctions Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen

In announcing the designation, the State Department said the group had claimed responsibility for several attacks, including one in 2014 in Jammu and Kashmir that left 17 people injured.

Aug 16, 2017

Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi's 'shortest Independence Day speech'

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who had gone to attend Narendra Modi's speech at Red Fort on August 15, says that Modi had reduced the duration of his speech as "he has nothing to talk about."

Aug 16, 2017

Theresa May sees no equivalence between fascists and those who oppose them

May said that it is important for all those in positions of responsibility to condemn far-right views. The U.K. prime minister was speaking on 16 August, the day after US President Donald Trump claimed that anti-fascist protesters were partially to blame for violence at a far-right rally. Trump has come in for criticism since he made these latest controversial remarks, with Republican Senator John McCain tweeting Theres no moral equivalency between racists and Americans standing up to defy hate and bigotry. The President of the United States should say so.

Aug 16, 2017

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Can India use trade as a weapon against China to ban IT imports?

Amid growing security concerns, can India afford to deploy trade as a political weapon against China?

Aug 16, 2017

Karnataka CM: Imposition of any other language is unconstitutional [VIDEO]

Siddaramaiah during his Independence Day speech said, "imposition of any other language in a State is unconstitutional and is against the spirit of formation of States on linguistic basis."

Aug 16, 2017

Delhi belly in Mumbai: 5 fall ill after eating lizard-laced palak paneer

Five people including two children fell ill in Mumbai after finding a lizard in home-made palak paneer. Read on to know more.

Aug 16, 2017

Bengaluru flooded after night-long heavy rainfall

Bengaluru flooded after night-long rain, heaviest downpour in 127 years [VIDEO]

The highest-ever rainfall (162.1mm) recorded in the city in a day was on August 27, 1890, the record, which was broken on Tuesday.

Aug 16, 2017

Kapil Mishra puts up banners calling Kejriwal 'corrupt'

Sacked Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra on Wednesday put up banners on different flyovers across the national capital, calling Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal "corrupt".

Aug 16, 2017

Charlottesville protest revives Confederate statue removal battle

In Memphis, Tennessee, the city is suing the state for the removal of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader, which stands in the capitol. In Frankfort, Kentucky, its a statue of the Jefferson Davis, that has drawn ire from the local NAACP chapter for years. In Jacksonville, Florida, Anna Lopez Brosche, president of the city council, has requested the city take a full inventory...of all publicly displayed Confederate symbols on public property, and develop a plan to relocate them. Its all part of the age-old controversy which has has regained national attention......in the wake of Charlottesville, Virginias deadly Unite the Right rally. The rally was held in response to the city councils decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesvilles Lee Park, to be renamed Emancipation Park. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 700 Confederate monuments and statues remain on U.S. public land

Aug 16, 2017

Ship full of hammerhead sharks and endangered fish seized in the Galapagos

This largest ever seized ship contained 300 metric tons of threatened and endangered hammerhead sharks. The Galapagos National Park said it had seized the Chinese-flagged vessel in Ecuador which was full of carcasses of sharks, fish and other sea life.

Aug 16, 2017