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Topic: Amar Singh

Amarsinh of Rajkot—1st Indian cricketer to play professional league cricket in England in 1932

The great English batter Wally Hammond said that Amarsinh was 'as dangerous an opening bowler as I have ever seen, coming off the pitch like the crack of doom'.

How Amar Singh exposed the underbelly (or hypocrisy) of Indian politics

Amar Singh’s friendships across political, corporate and Bollywood spheres made him what he was. The ‘fixer’ tag that came with it was only ‘rajniti’ for him.

Amar Singh, controversial politician who hung out with the stars and helped save a govt

Amar Singh, who passed away Saturday, had made friends across party lines over his roughly three decades in politics.

I’ll be back — Amar Singh thanks ‘whoever is spreading fake news’ of his death

Former Samajwadi Party MP Amar Singh posted a video on Twitter dismissing rumours of his death and revealed he was undergoing treatment in Singapore.

On ‘death bed’, Amar Singh says he regrets overreaction against Amitabh Bachchan & family

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Amar Singh could connect Mulayam to Clinton. Now the famous middleman waits for Big B’s call

They don't make middlemen like Amar Singh anymore. If you had Amar Singh on your side, anything was possible, everything would get done.

On his ‘death bed’, Amar Singh seeks forgiveness from Amitabh Bachchan and family

Ex-SP leader Amar Singh was practically part of the Bachchan family, but fell out and called them a host of names over the years. Now, he regrets his ‘overreaction’.

It’s a tragedy that 3-time MP Jaya Prada becomes news only when men comment on her

Actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada has parlayed several parties but has been a prowling tigress in her political avatar.

How Hannah Montana got Akhilesh Yadav to join politics

Mulayam Singh was not convinced that Hannah Montana was the deciding factor for Akhilesh, writes Priya Sahgal in Contenders

EVMs or Canadian Ministers, Amarinder Singh was forthright & unsparing

Singh lived up to his reputation of being forthright and unsparing as he spoke extensively on a range of issues – from beef bans to alcohol restrictions, Punjab’s drugs problem, sedition and the future of his party.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.