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Indonesia flight with 188 on board crashes into sea minutes after takeoff from Jakarta

The 181 passengers of the Lion Air flight from the Indonesia capital included three children, two of them infants.

Court takes over kabaddi too, appoints retired judge to pick national team

The judge was appointed an observer by the Delhi High Court after questions were raised over the Asiad selection process.

Dehydrated & hurting, triple-jump gold medalist Arpinder wanted to break national record

Athlete says he wanted to break the national record but was dehydrated and his calves were hurting.

Indians have won six Asiad medals for wushu and kurash. But what are they?

The two are forms of martial art that trace their origin to different countries: Kurash is a traditional martial art of Uzbekistan, while wushu is Chinese.

Obsession with Asian Games’ medal tally shows India’s breathtaking apathy towards sports

Indians need to care about sports, not just the medal tally.

P.V. Sindhu gets silver at Asian games in year’s third major final loss

Sindhu loses 13-21 16-21 to world number one Tai Tzu-Ying, who earlier defeated Saina Nehwal in semi-finals. 

GLOBAL PULSE: Trump fires FBI chief, Seoul elects a leader who wants to engage with North Korea, and the new non-voters in France.

TRUMP FIRES FBI CHIEF REMINDING AMERICANS OF NIXON In a shocking move, American president Donald Trump has fired FBI chief James Comey. And CNN called...

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India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.