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• The decline and fall of cricket: How money ruined everything May 21, 2013
  (This is the second of a two-part article. You can read the first part here.) In the wake of spot fixing controversy, there is a suggestion to legalise betting. The Public Gambling Act, 1867 require to be amended for that. Legalising betting, however, will not legalise fixing. But I doubt whether law-makers would agree even to that. Many of them publicly dis […]
  Priyadarshi Dutta
• Chuck’s World for 21st May May 21, 2013
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  Deepak Gopalakrishnan
• This day in history: May 21 May 20, 2013
  293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emper […]
  Niticentral Staff
• IPL spot-fixing: Ravi Sawani assures cooperation to Delhi police May 20, 2013
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• To succeed in diplomacy, we must tame pro-China lobby May 20, 2013
  As the Prime Minister tries to reassure the nation that he is taking up the sensitive border issue with the visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang, it would be worth examining why Indian foreign policy often fails to robustly defend national interests against powerful nations. One reason is that we deploy ‘experts’ who double up as apologists of the nation oppo […]
  Sandhya Jain
• 1993 blast case: Zebunisa, Parkar surrender before TADA court May 20, 2013
  After Bollywood actor two other convicts in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, Sharif Dada Parkar and Zebunisa Kazi, whose convictions were upheld by the Supreme Court, surrendered before the special TADA court in Mumbai on Monday. Parkar, who is over 80, was brought to the court on a stretcher from a hospital in Byculla, while 75-year-old Zebunisa, suffering […]
  Niticentral Staff
• Rape is morally, physically most reprehensible crime: SC May 20, 2013
  The Supreme Court on Monday said rape is morally and physically the most reprehensible crime in the society which degrades and defiles the soul of a helpless female. “Rape is the most morally and physically reprehensible crime in a society, as it is an assault on the body, mind and privacy of the victim. While a murderer destroys the physical frame of the vi […]
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• Omar takes up Chinese incursion, Kashmir agenda at the forefront May 20, 2013
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• Railway bribery case: Accused remanded in 2-day CBI custody May 20, 2013
  A Delhi court on Monday sent Sushil Daga, one of the accused in the Rs 10 crore Railway bribery case, to a two-day CBI custody. Daga, who was arrested on Sunday, was produced before the court and the agency sought his remand, inorder to confront him with documents and intercept the conversations of the accused. Special CBI Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma allowed […]
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• Omar hopeful of partial withdrawal of AFSPA from J&K May 20, 2013
  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has been advocating partial withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some parts of his State, on Monday expressed hope of finding a “common meeting ground” with the Army on the vexed issue and also said he was eagerly waiting for the final report of National Investigating Agency (NIA) whic […]
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