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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry earlier slammed the plan to expand Israeli settlements and called for international institutions to confront the move. Israel has intensified the construction of settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported. According to the report, 15 new settlement housing units as well as new roads are planned to be built in the area, to the west, south and east of the Ahia settlement in the Palestinian village of Jalud. More agricultural lands are reportedly being bulldozed in the area to clear the construction site. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian official in charge of monitoring the Israeli settlement policy in the northern part of the West Bank, told Ma'an that the new settlement expansion in Ahia included the bulldozing of lands and the construction of infrastructure in the settlement of Amihai, 1 kilometer to the southwest of Ahia. According to Israel’s Channel 10, the plan is part of the so-called "Greater Jerusal...

Awadhe Warriors put behind the absence of their star player Saina Nehwal and took 4-3 lead against defending champions Chennai Smashers on the first day of the third edition of the Premier Badminton League (PBL), with the much-anticipated tournament making its debut in Guwahati. The Warriors won both men’s singles and mixed doubles to take a 4-0 advantage. Parupalli Kashyap won his singles against Daniel S Farid 15-12, 15-8 in the Warriors’ trump match. However, Chennai Smashers came back in the men’s doubles and their trump match of women’s singles to save themselves embarrassment and earn three points. PV Sindhu thrashed Nehwal’s replacement SU Rao 15-10, 15-9 to win their trump match. Here are the key highlights of the opening day:

New Delhi: In an appalling incident, a pregnant woman was punched repeatedly in the stomach, her head was banged against the wall for touching the bucket of an upper cast Thakur. According to sources, the incident occurred on the morning of October 15, when Savitri Devi, a Dalit woman accidentally ‘touched’ a bucket belonging to Anju, an upper caste Thakur while collecting garbage from homes in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. The wire with reference to Indian Express, has quoted Savitri’s neighbour Kusuma Devi, as saying ‘Anju stormed towards her, punched her repeatedly in the stomach and banged her head on a wall. She kept accusing Savitri of ‘defiling’ her bucket by touching it.” Later, according to Kusuma Devi, Anju’s son Rohit joined his mother in beating Savitri with sticks. Savitri was rushed to the district hospital by her husband, Dilip Kumar. The hospital gave no treatment to her, saying that there was no external bleeding and she was fine. However Savitri’s condition...

The Russian Defense Ministry has reported about the substantial advances made in fighting against terrorism in Syria. The Russian sappers have deactivated nearly 1,000 of various explosive devices, while hundreds of militants positions had been defeated by the Aerospace Forces. HMEIMIM (Sputnik) — Russian sappers have cleared 33 hectares of the territory in and around the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor in the past 24 hours, destroying more than 960 explosives, Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian reconciliation reported on Thursday. "In the past 24 hours, 33 hectares of the territory of the city and its suburbs, six kilometers of roads, and 35 buildings were demined, 963 explosives were discovered and destroyed," the center said in a statement. According to the document, a total of 741 hectares of territory, 183 kilometers of roads, and 1,522 buildings have been inspected since the start of the Russian demining operation in Deir ez-Zor, 37,517 explosive items have...

The National Security Agency may restore spying program given the latest amendments. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Senate Intelligence Committee has approved in a 12-3 vote, the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), something that could allow the National Security Agency's (NSA) to relaunch its online surveillance program. The committee's vote took place on Tuesday in a closed session. According to media reports, the lawmakers voted in favor of Senator Mark Warner's amendment, which proposes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should submit a request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court if it obtains information on US citizens it wants to look into. READ MORE: Why Draft Liberty Act Won't Curb US Agency Spying Powers The current version of the law, which allows the US intelligence community to target the communications of non-US citizens outside of the United States, expires at the end of the year.

Illegal hacking methods allegedly used by the FBI to obtain evidence and expose users of an international abuse website have stirred a legitimacy debate in Norway. According to the Norwegian daily Adresseavisen, the FBI used illegal data gathering methods against local users of a cloaked website to reveal their IP addresses and unveil their identities. The illegal hacking reportedly led to dozens of arrests. Earlier this year, seven men were arrested in Norway in connection with an investigation into an international abuse website. Recently, however, it transpired that the scope of the case in Norway alone is broader than initially thought. The country's National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) announced that charges have been brought against 43 Norwegians as a result of the ongoing investigation. The methods used by the FBI were considered illegal in Norway in 2015, the year the website was active. Foreign authorities were not permitted to access computers in Norway ei...

New Delhi: Germany produced a combination of sublime skills and brute power as they laid bare Colombia's defensive frailties with a clinical 4-0 victory in their pre-quarterfinal match in the FIFA U-17 World Cup here on Monday. Captain and star striker Jann-Fiete Arp (7th and 65th) struck twice while Yann Bisseck (39th) and John Yeboah (49th) scored a goal each to help Germany reach the quarterfinals. Germany, whose best show in the tournament has been a runners-up finish way back in the first edition in 1985, now face the winners of the pre-quarterfinal match between Brazil and Honduras on October 18 in Kochi in the quarterfinals to be played in Kolkata on October 22. If Brazil happen to win their pre-quarterfinals, it will be a mouth-watering quarter-final clash between the colts teams of the two footballing giants. Germany had struggled to get the goals against their opponents in a relatively easier Group C but their strikers had a field day today, taking cracks at will as ...

After the Congress made vikas 'go crazy' in Gujarat, PM Narendra Modi responded saying that Gujaratis will chant only one slogan - I am vikas, I am Gujarat

Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 16 (ANI): Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the parents of 14-year-old Aarushi, who was found murdered nine years back in Noida, have finally walked free from the Dasna jail here after the prison authorities received the required court order. Rajesh Talwar's brother Dinesh Talwar and their lawyers Manoj Sisodia and Tanveer Ahmed Mir went to the Dasna Jail to receive them. This comes at least three days after the Allahabad High Court acquitted them of charges of their daughter's murder, setting aside the CBI court's earlier order, in connection with the double murder case that shook the nation in 2008. A high court bench, comprising of Justice B. K. Narayana and Justice A. K. Mishra, had reserved its verdict, in September, in the appeal filed by Aarushi's parents, who were sentenced to life in the jail. The Talwars had been lodged in the Dasna jail since November 2013 in connection with the twin murders. According to reports, as pe...

New Delhi: Indian football's date with destiny didn't have a fairytale ending, but it still gladdened fans who had come not expecting a win but an unlikely draw or a heartwarming effort. The Delhi crowd didn't get their first two wishes fulfilled but a couple of moments in the match made them skip a beat. Those moments didn't end in leaps of joy but definitely, put a smile on the face of fans who walked back home from the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium after India's U-17 team lost 0-3 defeat against the USA in the country's first ever FIFA World Cup match. The stands were not full, but a concerted effort from the government upped the count, many of them being students from Delhi/NCR (National Capital Region). And the crowd didn't make any bones about getting behind the team. From a Mexican wave of more than 45,000 pairs of hands to shouts of "India...India", the roar and the cheer at times were deafening. Especially when the Indian boy with a blo...

The high-voltage Supreme Court hearing in the Kerala 'love jihad' case is all set to get more rancorous. At a time CJI Dipak Misra ponders whether to continue with the NIA probe ordered by his predecessor JS Khehar to verify if there was any "ulterior or criminal" motive in Kerala-based Muslim youth Shafin Jahan marrying a Hindu girl Akhila after she converted to Islam, pleas for NIA investigation into two more similar cases landed in the court on the eve of a crucial hearing. The SC had said it wanted to ascertain if Hadiya was indeed trapped by a "well-oiled racket that uses psychological measures to indoctrinate people and persuade them to join terror groups such as ISIS" as alleged by her father and endorsed by the state HC, which quashed the marriage and gave the girl's custody to her father. A new petition has been filed by one Bindu from Kerala, who's daughter Nimisha converted to Islam to become Fathima, married a Christian who embraced Is...

Jann-Fiete Arp starred in Germany’s 2-1 win over Costa Rica in their opening FIFA U-17 World Cup game. (Twitter: @DFB_Team_EN) The goal-scoring run of Germany U-17 striker Jann-Fiete Arp has created a lot of buzz in his homeland. Many are backing the Hamburg frontman to lead Die Mannschaft’s frontline in the future. The main reason for that is Germany’s lack of striking options. While they have produced a plethora of quality attacking midfielders, there has been a dearth of out-and-out strikers. The current national squad banks on Mario Gomez, who at 32 isn’t getting any younger, and Timo Werner, who has started his Germany career well, winning the golden boot at the Confederations Cup. However, doubts remain over his durability. So all eyes are on Arp, his development in the next couple of years and whether he can convert his potential into something substantial. Germany U-17 coach Christian Wuck said after their 2-1 win over Costa Rica on Saturday that some of these youngsters ...

Ahead of another hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday on the annulment of a Kerala woman’s marriage by the state’s high court in May after she was allegedly converted to Islam forcibly by an organisation with suspected terror links, her father said he has full faith in the judiciary and insisted that he did not want his daughter to end up as a human bomb. Talking to Hindustan Times over the phone, K M Ashokan (59), an ex-serviceman said many rights activists and others were running a virulent campaign against his family but nobody tried to understand the pain and agony of parents. He said he was not against any religion or conversion but he opposed a vicious campaign that pushed innocent girls into volatile areas. The case hit the headlines after Akhila Ashokan (24), a homeopathy doctor converted to Islam and took the name of Hadiya and married a Muslim youth Shefin Jahan from Kollam in south Kerala. Her father had approached the Kerala high court in May claiming his daughter was ...

In a gruesome act, a woman was gangraped by four men in fron of her husband and their infant in Muzaffarnagar. The rapists, according to ANI news agency, gangraped the 25-year-old woman on Friday after tying up her husband as the infant cried incessantly. Photo: ANI The family was returning from their visit to pediatrician when they were stopped by the rapists, whose identities have not yet been disclosed. The men beat up the husband before tying him up and took the woman in the nearby sugarcane field, where they gangraped the victim. They also threatened her and her husband against disclosing the incident to anyone. Few farmers from the nearby field came to their rescue after they screamed for help. When informed about the crime, cops took the family to the hospital for treatment and her medical examination. Ajay Sahdev, SP Rural, Muzaffarnagar, said, “We are waiting for her medical report. A case has been registered against the four and investigation is underway.” The victim t...

New Delhi: The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley spoke after the 22nd GST council meeting on Friday. Here are important things Arun Jaitley said after the GST council meet: GST on unbranded ayurvedic medicines to reduced from 12% to 5%: FM Arun Jaitley Members wanted to revisit tax structure of restaurants with more than Rs 1 Cr turnover, will be reviewed: Finance Minister Man made yarn was taxed 18%, it has been put in 12% slab, will have effect on textiles: FM Jaitley Traders to pay 1%, manufacturers 2% & restaurants 5% under composition scheme: FM Jaitley 90% of the assesses who have turnover less than Rs 1.5 Cr turnover to file quarterly returns: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Refund cheques for July exports, will be processed by 10 Oct & refund cheques for Aug exports, will be processed by 18 Oct: FM Pattern of collection (of GST) is not clear after two months because it was a period of transition: FM Jaitley E-wallet for each exporter to be made & notional amoun...

Despite concern that the composition of vaccines used by the city for the coming flu season differs from the latest recommendation by the World Health Organisation, Hong Kong's authorities and top medical experts said on Tuesday that vaccination would still be useful in preventing the disease. The global health watchdog announced last Thursday that the vaccine strain against influenza A H3N2 for the southern hemisphere next year had been changed to the Singapore strain, different from the Hong Kong strain found in the city's 460,000 doses of flu vaccines, which will be given out under the government's vaccination programme beginning this month. The composition of the city's vaccines was based on the WHO's recommendations for the northern hemisphere, announced in February. But the latest suggestion cites studies that show recent H3N2 viruses, which were predominant globally from February to September this year, had been "better inhibited" by antibodies ...

New Delhi, Oct 3: Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Registrar Neeraj Tripathi will be the new officiating vice-chancellor for next two months. The current incumbent Girish Chandra Tripathi has been sent on indefinite leave. After two months Girish Chandra's tenure comes to an end. BHU students, who have been protesting against the lathicharge on girls at the campus last month, today hailed the Vice Chancellor's move to go on indefinite leave as a "victory" for them. University Vice Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi, under fire for his alleged mishandling of student protests last month, yesterday proceeded on indefinite leave citing personal reasons. "The Vice Chancellor going on leave is a victory for us that the government is paying some attention to our demands. But we want a Visitorial enquiry into the matter as he still continues to be the VC and can influence the probe," said a BHU student Mineshi Mishra. President Ramnath Kovind is the Visitor of ...

In less than four months after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to US in which he mentioned India’s intentions to strengthen its hydrocarbon engagement with the US, the first consignment of crude has reached Indian shore. New Delhi (Sputnik) — Diversifying the energy dependency, India has received the first US crude oil cargo of 1.6 million barrels bought by Indian Oil Corporation from the United States on Monday at Paradip port. The step is seen as Indian strategy to lessen its dependency on OPEC countries for its oil demands. This is also being seen as an attempt by India to exert pressure on OPEC to slash prices and stop charging a premium from Asian buyers. MT New Prosperity, a very large crude carrier, having a capacity of 2 million barrels of crude, had left US Gulf Coast on 19th August for Paradip port. IndianOil, an Indian state-owned company, will process the crude at its East-Coast based refineries, located at Paradip, Haldia, Barauni and Bongaigaon. This is t...

Karnataka home minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Tuesday that the special investigation team formed to probe the murder of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh has got “very definite leads” in the case. Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right wing views, was gunned down outside her house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar area in Bengaluru on September 5. “However, they are in the process of putting the evidence together, which is why we cannot reveal much at this stage,” Reddy told the Hindustan Times. This is the second time the minister has hinted at definite leads in the investigation since the murder of the editor of the weekly tabloid, Gauri Lankesh Patrike. Reddy on September 9 said the SIT had hit upon a vital clue that would help them solve the case and expressed hopes about nabbing the culprits soon. However, sources in the investigation team did not confirm this. “We are still following some leads and are hopeful of cracking the case soon,” a s...

Barcelona: Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont said the region won the right to break away from Spain, with his government claiming on Monday that 90 percent of voters backed independence in a banned referendum marred by clashes. However, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared the Sunday plebiscite had been blocked, saying "today there has not been a self-determination referendum in Catalonia," a region deeply divided over independence. Further adding to tensions, unions and Catalan associations called a region-wide strike for Tuesday due to "the grave violation of rights and freedoms," urging people to take to the streets in Catalonia, a major engine for Spanish growth. At least 92 people were confirmed injured out of a total of 844 who needed medical attention, Catalan authorities said, as police cracked down on a vote Spain's central government branded a "farce". The interior ministry said 33 police required treatment as a result of...

Two Dalit men at a village near Gandhinagar in Gujarat were allegedly thrashed by members of the Rajput community for "sporting a moustache" in two separate incidents, the police said on Sunday. On September 29, Krunal Maheria, 30, a law student, was allegedly beaten up by Bharatsinh Vaghela. In his complaint to Kalol taluka police, Mr Maheria said Mr Vaghela assaulted him for sporting a moustache. "When I was visiting my friend, Vaghela and some others intercepted me and verbally abused me. Vaghela told me that I cannot become a Rajput by just sporting a moustache. When I ignored him, Vaghela beat me up with a stick," Mr Maheria said on Sunday. He returned home yesterday after undergoing treatment at Gandhinagar civil hospital. A police complaint has been filed, a Kalol taluka police officer said, adding Mr Vaghela has been arrested. "A complaint was also registered against Maheria," the officer added. A similar case was reported in Limbodara village...

Syria are now just four games away from extraordinary World Cup qualification However the team's exploits are used as propaganda for Bashar al-Assad Many promising young Syrian footballers have been forced out of the country The football team have brought rare hope to a country ripped apart by civil war

The father-in-law told the police that a toilet would soon be constructed and also signed a bond. (File) A woman, battling humiliation in the absence of a toilet at her home, dragged her father-in-law to the police station and allegedly forced him to sign a bond that he would get one constructed soon. The incident took place at Cheggan Neura village in Minapur block of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district. The officer in-charge of women's police station in Muzaffarpur, Ms Jyoti told PTI that the woman had submitted a written complaint on September 25 against her father-in-law and brother-in-law for turning a deaf ear to her constant pleas for a toilet. Because of this hardship, she would come to her marital home only when her husband returned from his work place in Tamil Nadu. She used to again shift to her father's house after he went back to his place of work. Finding no solution to her woes, she gave a written complaint to the police against her father-in-law and brother-...

The PM Narendra Modi led Union Cabinet which had earlier approved the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission panel is expected to meet once again in the month of January. The meet will take place to decide on the pay hike of the minimum salary of Central government employees, according to a report in OneIndia.com. It was cited in various media reports that Ministry of Finance is planning to raise the minimum pay hike from Rs 18,000 to Rs 21,000 under 7th Pay Commission. Earlier, on September 12, it was reported that a committee has been formed to look into various pay related anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission's recommendations. The 22-member panel will be headed by Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) and it will have members from both the official and staff side, news agency PTI reported. It has been decided to set up the anomaly committee of the National Council (Joint Consultative Machinery) consisting of...

JAMMU: Two civilians were injured as the Pakistan Army on Wednesday targeted forward posts and villages along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir with mortars and small arms fire. The Indian Army retaliated strongly and effectively and the firing is still on, a defence spokesperson said. "Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing of small arms, automatics and mortars from 0815 hours in Poonch and Bhimbher Gali sectors along the Line of Control (LoC)", the spokesperson added. Pakistani troops also targeted dozens of villages in LoC in Bhimbher gali, Balakote, Shahpur and Poonch with mortar shells and automatic weapons, leaving two civilians injured. The injured have been identified as 55-year-old Sham Akhtar and 28-year-old Raza Ahmed. On September 24, two soldiers were injured as Pakistan opened fire at forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote sector of Poonch district. On September 23, Pakistan troops targeted BoPs in Ar...

PANCHKULA: Panchkula police commissioner A S Chawla on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of Honeypreet Insan, who is the most wanted accused in the cases of sedition and violence by Dera Sacha Sauda followers, being in Nepal. Chawla said police parties were quite close to arresting dera spokesperson Dr Aditya Insan and Honeypreet. He also said two more lists of dera followers, who had actively participated in the violence at the Hafed light point of Panchkula on August 25, were being prepared. Chawla also informed about adding Honeypreet's name to the sedition case registered at Panchkula's Sector 5 police station. He said Honeypreet's name cropped up following the interrogation of two other accused arrested in the case. Among those arrested in the sedition case included Surender Insan, Chamkaur Singh, Daan Singh, Govind Singh and Dilawar Insan. They were present at the Hafed light point, the epicentre of violence on August 25. Meanwhile, the Panchkula chief judicial m...

China has well-ordered North Korean companies in the country to shut down by January of the upcoming year as it applies UN sanctions imposed following Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test, the commerce ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said the companies, including joint ventures with Chinese firms, have 120 days to close from the date the United Nations resolution was adopted, September 11. The announcement comes days after China confirmed that it will apply another major part of the sanctions: a limit on exports of refined petroleum products to North Korea starting October 1 and a ban on textiles from its neighbor. China's application of UN sanctions is particularly biting for North Korea. Beijing is Pyongyang's main ally and trading partner, responsible for around 90 percent of the outsider nation's commerce. The US has pressed China to use its economic leverage to strong-arm North Korea into giving up its nuclear ambitions. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wil...

In a tragic incident, a stampede took place at Elphinstone railway bridge in Mumbai's Parel on Friday morning. The incident took place at 9:30 am, killing 19 people. As per reports, the stampede took place after rumours of short-circuit were spread across at the station, post which people started running on the bridge. Niket Kaushik, GRP Commissioner said that Of the injured 20 people have serious injuries, rest have minor injuries. Can't comment more right now. (Image: ANI) The Elphinstone station falls on Western linne

Vijayawada:      A Nuzvid court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Sakshi publication’s managing director, YS Bharathi Reddy, and editorial director, Rama Chandramurthy, for not attending court in a defamation case filed by Telugu Desam leader Chalasani Anjaneyulu. Mr Anjaneyulu, Krishna district Farmers wing president, filed a defamation case against Sakshi for publishing an article alleging his involvement in a Call money issue in 2016. He claimed the article defamed him. The court sent a warrant to Sakshi’s management to attend the hearing, but the management did not appear before the court, and hence the court on Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against its senior managers.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament Thursday, paving the way for a snap election that is expected to be held October 22. The speaker of the house, Tadamori Oshima, read the statement of dissolution. Lower house members all stood up and chanted “banzai” three times in a dissolution ritual, then rushed out of the assembly hall. Abe is widely seen as trying to reconsolidate his grip on power within the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, so he can extend the term of his premiership next year. The dissolution of the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber parliament comes more than a year before required by law. The ruling party, though, faces a growing challenge from a new party launched by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike this week. The Party of Hope has energized some voters, and is gaining renegade lawmakers from the main opposition party. Minutes after the dissolution, Abe made a fiery speech to party members. He said he is seeking a public mandate on ...

Accused of raping his own female followers, Gurmeet Ram Rahim had of late started fancying high profile models and film actresses. After facing allegations of exploiting Dera girls, Ram Rahim, according to his relative Bhupinder Singh Gora, would either invite high-profile girls to Sirsa or temporarily shift to Mumbai to spend 15-20 days every month. And all this was arranged by Honeypreet. Gora told India Today TV that Ram Rahim would spend most of his time in the company of women. "He would openly talk about naked sex workers in the presence of lakhs of female followers," he said. Ram Rahim defined love in three ways - mizazi (one-night stand), hakiki (soulful love) and ruhani (divine love). "Former Congress leader Harminder Singh Jassi had once told me that we should avoid sending our own women in front of Ram Rahim as he might exploit married women too," Gora said. Ram Rahim never met one woman for the second time after she visited him in his cave. He also u...

The Alternative for Germany party has pledged to use its platform in parliament to “reclaim the country and its people.” The AfD won nearly 14 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, giving them 94 seats. Many believed the turmoil of the 20th century had immunized Germany from a return of far-right politics, but Sunday’s result proved them wrong. For the group’s opponents who gathered to protest the result in Berlin, the Alternative for Germany’s anti-migrant agenda has parallels with the Nazis’ rise to power. “It is the first time since after the war that a racist and neo-Nazi party is in parliament,” said one protester. “So that is really worrying to us. And this reminds everyone of 1933.” Jewish groups were among those expressing fear over the results. The AfD’s co-leader, Alexander Gauland, has previously said Germans should be proud of their military’s achievements in World War II. However, at a news conference Monday, he denied the party is racist. Gauland said there is ...

The Delhi Soccer Association has failed to perform its primary duty -- running football in the state properly. The DSA did not hold the senior men’s league in the 2016, effectively ruining the aspiration of budding footballers in the national capital region to make it big in a sport that has a fairly strong commercial interest. When officials continue to hold on to their positions for long periods and manipulate affiliated units, they become like dead wood. Effectively, lack of initiative and the desire to excel on the pitch take a backseat. DSA, of course, has enough excuses. “It is not easy to run football these days. Earlier, there were so many grounds available in Delhi but now there are very few. Also, the fee for renting a ground like Ambedkar Stadium was Rs 500. Now it is Rs 10,000. It is difficult,” DSA vice-president NK Bhatia told Hindustan Times. Hiring playing fields might be an expensive proposition, but isn’t that the pledge every sport official takes before joining ...

The Delhi Soccer Association has failed to perform its primary duty -- running football in the state properly. The DSA did not hold the senior men’s league in the 2016, effectively ruining the aspiration of budding footballers in the national capital region to make it big in a sport that has a fairly strong commercial interest. When officials continue to hold on to their positions for long periods and manipulate affiliated units, they become like dead wood. Effectively, lack of initiative and the desire to excel on the pitch take a backseat. DSA, of course, has enough excuses. “It is not easy to run football these days. Earlier, there were so many grounds available in Delhi but now there are very few. Also, the fee for renting a ground like Ambedkar Stadium was Rs 500. Now it is Rs 10,000. It is difficult,” DSA vice-president NK Bhatia told Hindustan Times. Hiring playing fields might be an expensive proposition, but isn’t that the pledge every sport official takes before joining ...

Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who has been living in exile since 1994, has slammed the Sheikh Hasina government of her country for giving shelter to thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing neighbouring Myanmar. Nasreen, in her tweet, pointed out that the Bangladesh government was concerned about Rohingyas only because they are Muslims who would be used as a votebank. "Bangladesh offered land to shelter Rohingya. What if these people were Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews but not Muslims? Shelter not for humanity but for votes!" Taslima Nasreen said in her scathing tweet. B'desh offerd land 2shelter Rohingya.What if thse ppl wre Hindus,Buddhists,Christians,Jews but not Muslims?Shelter not 4humanity but 4votes! - taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) September 18, 2017 The UN said on Saturday the total number of people to have entered Bangladesh having fled the unrest had now reached 4,09,000, a leap of 18,000 in a day. Bangladesh has said it would free 2,000 acre...

PSG made it a perfect six wins in six games to start the Ligue 1 season with the help of two Lyon own goals. Ligue 1 leaders Paris St Germain were rescued by two second-half own goals as they extended their 100 percent start to the season with an unconvincing 2-0 victory over Lyon. It looked like being a frustrating night for PSG and their expensively assembled frontline of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani until Lyon defender Marcelo inadvertently turned home a cross from substitute Giovani Lo Celso 15 minutes from time. Uruguayan striker Cavani then had a penalty saved by Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes, before visiting defender Jeremy Morel put the result beyond doubt by diverting the ball into his own net in the 86th minute. Mario Balotelli celebrates scoring the only goal in Nice's win over Rennes. In-form Mario Balotelli smashed home his fourth goal in three games to earn Nice a 1-0 success at Rennes. Balotelli, who struck twice against Monaco last weekend and al...

Liquor Baron Vijay Mallya on 14 September will appear in a United Kingdom court for a hearing in the ongoing extradition case over economic offences in India. In a June hearing at the London court, in a major setback to India, the court had expressed that the New Delhi had not provided evidence to Mallya yet, who is battling a slew of cases in India over his default case involving Rs. 9,000 crore worth loans to a clutch of public sector banks. The 61-year-old liquor baron has been out on bail, since his arrest in April in London. The Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on 6 July heard the extradition case of Mallya and had set the next date for 14 September. Earlier, at least 53 persons, including Mallya, faced prosecution complaints from the Directorate of Enforcement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, and they are absconding, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had said in July. The Ministry of Home Affairs, the nodal ministry for Mutual Legal Assis...

As discrimination turned into violence for Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar, everyone lunged towards the borders abandoning their homeland looking for a peaceful refuge in another country. In the hassle to outrun the Myanmar army's crackdown, the Rohingyas left all their belongings and ran for their lives. However, there was one young boy who couldn't leave his elderly parents behind to die. So he took them with him. Much like the Hindu mythological character Shravan Kumar, the young boy carried his parents in a double basket slung over his shoulder for nearly 100 miles in seven days before reaching the border of Bangladesh. At the age when most youngsters go to school and colleges, this young boy had to carry his parents out of the jaws of death. He said, he couldn't bear the thought of leaving his parents behind. Thousand other like him, including men women, children and elderly people are also going through similar dilemmas. Forced out of their homeland to find a...

As the Champions League opened with a series of one-sided games, Jose Mourinho was blunt. For the Manchester United manager, it wasn’t the Champions League at all. “For the Real Madrids, Barcelonas and Bayerns, the Champions League starts in February. Now is just the warming up,” Mourinho said after a routine win for his Manchester United team over Swiss club Basel. “Let’s qualify, let’s make the points to qualify for the knockout phase. When we do that, let’s enjoy playing against the big guys.” United, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich all cruised to easy wins on Tuesday, scoring 17 goals between them and conceding none. Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Juventus was something of an exception, if only because the Italian team – last season’s defeated finalist – had been expected to put up more of a fight. In the event, Lionel Messi started another European campaign in imperious fashion with two goals against an injury-depleted Juventus side. GROUP A Manchester United’s play...

Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face "punishment" for its "crimes". FYI: Rohingyas are an ethnic group from Myanmar comprising mostly of Muslims. They belong to the province of Rakhine, Western Myanmar and speak a dialect of Bengali. Myanmar, on the other hand is a majority Buddhist state. Myanmar has not granted full citizenship to the Rohingya Muslims. The exodus of Muslim refugees from Myanmar was sparked by a fierce security force response to a series of Rohingya militant attacks on police and army posts in the country's west on August 25. The Islamist group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Untied States issued a statement urging Muslims around the world to support their fellow Muslims in Myanmar with aid, weapons and "military support". "The savage treatment ...

Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face "punishment" for its "crimes". FYI: Rohingyas are an ethnic group from Myanmar comprising mostly of Muslims. They belong to the province of Rakhine, Western Myanmar and speak a dialect of Bengali. Myanmar, on the other hand is a majority Buddhist state. Myanmar has not granted full citizenship to the Rohingya Muslims. The exodus of Muslim refugees from Myanmar was sparked by a fierce security force response to a series of Rohingya militant attacks on police and army posts in the country's west on August 25. The Islamist group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Untied States issued a statement urging Muslims around the world to support their fellow Muslims in Myanmar with aid, weapons and "military support". "The savage treatment ...

Two other kids saw the conductor in the toilet just seconds before the murder, while a gardener saw him coming out afterwards The seven-year-old student of Gurugram's Ryan International School, who was found murdered on Friday, had apparently seen the accused, school bus conductor Ashok Kumar, masturbating inside the school toilet, police said on Monday. Two others students, including one from Class II-B, told the police in their statement that they saw Kumar inside the toilet just seconds before the homicide. They later identified him as well. The two had gone in to change their Karate uniform. Meanwhile, police sources said they have recreated the scene of crime with the help of forensic experts and the statements of witnesses and accused , As Reported By DNAIndia. According to the Newspaper,Investigating officers privy to the probe told DNA when the boy saw the accused, he pulled out a knife, and stabbed the child near his right ear and then tore his throat apart. "When t...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull brushed off criticism of a photo of him nursing a beer while holding his granddaughter as online "craziness". Turnbull posted the image he labelled "multitasking" on Facebook at the weekend as he watched an Australian Rules game in Sydney. It showed him kissing the forehead of baby Alice while holding the drink, drawing the ire of some social media users. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts during a media conference in SydneyCredit: REUTERS "Disgraceful holding a child with alcohol in hand," wrote Marg Walker, while another called him "irresponsible". Turnbull said the backlash was only from a minority. "I think it's in the sort of craziness of social media that you see things like that," he told Melbourne radio station Triple M. "You've just got to be yourself, as long as you're comfortable in your own skin, be yourself, be natural. Anything else you end...

As Manchester City prepare to launch their 2017-18 assault on the Champions League, manager Pep Guardiola will be well aware of the pressure facing him to make serious advances towards the oft-stated designs of the club's ambitious owners. The money lavished on player upgrades this summer speaks volumes for the ambition of Guardiola, the club and Sheikh Mansour. Champions League success ranks as highly as winning the Premier League. Despite a sticky start in the competition, when tough draws came thick and fast, City's steady progress since 2008 means the club are now in a good position to press on in their attempt to beat the semifinal reached in 2015-16. That match, woefully tossed away without the semblance of a proper fight against Real Madrid, represents City's only foray beyond the round of 16 so far. Although they are now the most consistent of England's representatives in this competition, since Arsenal's failure to qualify, they must push on to convince...

VIENNA – The head of the U.N. agency monitoring Iran's compliance with a deal crimping its nuclear program says Tehran is honoring the agreement — an assessment that the White House is questioning as it mulls upping the pressure on the Islamic Republic. Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Monday that the terms Iran accepted "are being implemented." The U.S. administration has faced two 90-day certification deadlines to state whether Iran was meeting the conditions needed to continue enjoying sanctions relief under the deal and has both times backed away from a showdown. But U.S. President Donald Trump more recently has said he does not expect to certify Iran's compliance again. The next deadline is in mid-October. Amano spoke in Vienna at the start of a 35-nation IAEA board meeting.