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20-year-old Majid Khan may have shunned the gun after his mother's plea, but the battle isn’t over for him yet. Police in Kashmir have been repeatedly accused of harassing young men on the charges of stone pelting. Many who became militants claim police harassment as a trigger for them to pick up the gun. While the football player's family and friends hope it will be different for him, but will Majid be able to live a normal life?
The lawyer of Hadiya’s father says that no relevance should be given to what she has to say. The woman at the center of the ‘Love Jihad’ controversy, will testify before the Supreme Court today. A Reghunath, the counsel for Hadiya’s father Ashokan, told News18 that she is “highly indoctrinated and brainwashed” and needs to come out of the “mental kidnapping,” revealing what the father’s strategy would be in the court.
Bhupendra Chaubey takes us to Gujarat to find out answers to some real questions about the upcoming elections in the state. After 22 years of BJP rule in Gujarat and 13 years of ‘Modi Magic’, a clean sweep becomes imperative for the incumbent government. What does the battle ground look like?
Hercule Poirot with a full head of hair? Despite Murder on The Orient Express having a most promising trailer and featuring a truly enviable cast, this was the one crumpled rosebud in a garden of seeming cinematic Paradise. Should you watch the movie?
On Sunday, during the second Test between India and Sri Lanka, Virat Kohli just did not settle after making one or two records, but pressed to go for more. Just like always. With this double hundred, Kohli scored his fifth in Test match cricket. This is also Kohli's fifth double century as captain, the highest ever, tied with West Indian Brian Lara.
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Follow the big story on Kerala’s ‘Love Jihad’ case on CNN-IBN. Hadiya is scheduled to testify before the Supreme Court on the circumstances of her conversion and whether there was any compulsion involved in it.
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Donald Trump has proclaimed that he would probably be TIME's "Person of the Year" for 2017 — except that he didn't really want the honour. The President of the United States is so obsessed with Time and its "Person of the Year" award that in at least five of his golf clubs there’s a TIME magazine cover featuring a picture of a cross-armed Trump and these words: "Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!" That cover, as first exposed by The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, is a fake. Trump cares so much about Time and its cover that he wants you to think he doesn't care at all. Don't believe it.
In the recent months, China has largely supported Myanmar's hardliner stance that the Rohingyas are illegal immigrants and pose a national security threat. As diplomats from over fifty Asian and European nations descended in Myanmar for the start of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), they received some clarity on Wang Yi, China's foreign minister’s visit to Bangladesh — Wang announced a Chinese-led plan to resolve the Rohingya crisis. Pablo Aabir Das explains why China's active role in Rohingya crisis is a part of its normative play in Bay of Bengal.
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