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Updated: Oct 03, 2019 07:00 IST

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‘One man, one resolve for country’: PM appeals to Indians from Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to all Indians to take one resolution each in the country’s interest and follow it for at least a year in order to make Mahatma Gandhi’s dreams for a self-reliant India come true. The Prime Minister was speaking on Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary at the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. Read more

UK high court rejects Pak claim to £35 million in favour of India, Nizam

The high court of England and Wales on Wednesday ruled in favour of India and the two descendants of the late 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, who sent £1 million to a London bank in 1948, now estimated to value at least £35 million. The historic case has gone through several twists and turns with India and the descendants — Mukarram Jah and Muffakham Jah — on one side and Pakistan on the other. Pakistan had claimed that the money on the ground was a payment for supplying arms to the Hyderabad state during India’s annexation in 1948. Read more

In PM Modi’s NYT tribute to the Mahatma, he proposes the Einstein challenge

Mahatma Gandhi had the unique ability to become a bridge between some of the greatest contradictions in human society, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in an opinion piece in The New York Times to mark Gandhi Jayanti. PM Modi also underscored the Mahatma’s emphasis on being nationalist and his message back from 1925 that “internationalism is possible only when nationalism becomes a fact”. Read more

KCR to meet PM Modi after nine months, to raise pending issues

After a gap of more than nine months, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss various issues pending with the Centre. Officials in the chief minister’s office familiar with the development said KCR, as Rao is better known, was given an appointment with the Prime Minister for 11.30 am on Friday. This will be the first meeting of KCR after Modi returned to power in May. Read more

10-year-old inmate of shelter home dies mysteriously in Bihar’s Begusarai

A 10-year-old girl died under mysterious circumstances at a government-aided private shelter home in Begusarai in Bihar Wednesday morning. While the shelter home authorities claimed she was ill, other inmates alleged a conspiracy, pointing out that she died in the presence of shelter home staff who had taken her to the hospital after she complained of stomach ache.

India vs South Africa: Rohit Sharma scripts history, becomes first Indian to achieve huge feat

India opener Rohit Sharma added a fresh feather into his already illustrious cap during the first day of first Test against South Africa at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. Rohit smashed an unbeaten ton on his first outing as opener in the longest format to enter the record books and also silence his critics who questioned his temperament to play in red-ball cricket. Rohit’s 115* took India to 202/0 before rain washed out final session of the day. Read more

Wanted: A new monsoon checklist for our cities

The visuals of senior BJP leader and deputy chief minister of Bihar, Sushil Modi being rescued by boat from the inundated streets of Patna on September 30 spoke volumes of how unprepared our cities have become for the annual monsoon. While bursts of high intensity rainfall have become an acknowledged reality across the country, what is equally true is the need for a new monsoon checklist for our cities and our states. Read more