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Smith to stay captain while CA probes ball-tamper scandal

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Cricket Australia said today Steve Smith was to remain captain while they investigate a ball-tampering scandal during the third Test against South Africa that has plunged the game into crisis. There have been calls for Smith to step down or be sacked over the premeditated plan hatched during the lunch break on Saturday’s third day in Newlands, after the captain admitted being the mastermind. Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull weighed in on the incident today, saying it “beggars belief” that role models such as Australian cricketers were “engaged in cheating…

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Date nights are important, says Megan Fox

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Actor Megan Fox believes date nights are important for a relationship to survive. The 31-year-old actor, who has kids Noah, five, Bodhi, four, and Journey, 18 months, with her husband Brian Austin Green, said spending quality time with her partner has been key to keeping their romance alive. “We don’t do it often, but we went to Nobu for Valentine’s Day and that was nice. The thing about that that’s so essential is you remember why you like the person that you had kids with. “When you have so many…

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Paul McCartney joins March for Our Lives, remembers John Lennon

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Legendary singer Paul McCartney joined the thousands protesting gun violence across the US at the March for Our Lives in New York. The Beatles star also honoured his friend and bandmate John Lennon while talking part in the protest. “As you know, one of my best friends was shot not far from here. It is important to me,” McCartney told CNN. In 1980, Lennon was shot by gunman Mark David Chapman outside New York’s Dakota apartment building, where the singer lived at the time with his wife, Yoko Ono. McCartney…

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S. Korea, US reach agreement in principle on trade: minister

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South Korea and the United States have reached an understanding on revising their free trade agreement (FTA) and on steel tariffs, Seoul’s trade minister said today. “Agreement on the bilateral FTA and steel issues has been reached in principle,” Kim Hyun-chong said on arrival at Incheon International Airport after talks in Washington, Yonhap news agency reported. Some technical issues need to be settled at working level but are likely to be concluded shortly, the minister was quoted as saying. US officials had said Friday an agreement could be announced in…

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STC, MMTC merger on cards: Prabhu

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A merger of state-run trading firms MMTC and STC is on the cards and the matter is under process, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu has said. “That is something which is already on cards because STC unfortunately has become a sick company. Therefore, there are some measures which are being taken already and this matter is under process,” Prabhu told PTI. He said this while replying to a question whether the government is moving ahead on the proposal to merge Metals & Minerals Trading Corporation of India (MMTC) and…

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Greece arrests 3 traffickers holding 21 migrants hostage

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Greek police in the northern city of Thessaloniki say they have arrested three Pakistanis who allegedly held 21 migrants hostage in a warehouse on the outskirts of the city, demanding money to release them. The migrants — 13 Eritreans, 7 Pakistanis and one person from Myanmar — had crossed over from Turkey on Wednesday and were taken by the three traffickers to the warehouse. Police say the traffickers were demanding USD 3,090 from each person. The arrests took place Friday but were announced today. In an unrelated case, a car…

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Spare no efforts in checking exam leak: Par panel to SSC

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Asserting that the sanctity of government jobs examinations must be maintained at any cost, a Parliamentary panel has asked the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) to spare no efforts in ensuring that such tests are free from any malpractices. The SCC, which conducts exams to select candidates for various central government jobs, had to cancel nine examinations, fully or partially, in the last five years. Most recently, it had to recommend a CBI enquiry into allegations pertaining to the conduct of Combined Graduate Level (Tier-II) examination 2017. Such cancellation of exams…

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Rahul Gandhi asks JD(S) to come clean on its support to BJP

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Continuing his attack on the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s party to come clean on its support to the BJP. “JD(S), they have to make it clear whether they are the BJP’s B team or not,” Gandhi said at a public meeting here in the Vokkaliga belt of the old Mysuru region, considered a JD(S) stronghold. “They (JD-S) have to make it clear whether they are supporting the BJP, if yes, why? The JD(S) stands for ‘Janata Dal Sangh…

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Japan PM Abe pledges constitution change amid scandal

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed today to press on with his controversial move to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, undeterred by a political scandal that has dented his popularity. Abe’s political capital is dwindling due to a widening scandal over the cut-price sale of government land to one of his supporters, with the opposition suggesting his wife Akie may have played a role. The scandal worsened when finance ministry bureaucrats admitted altering official records of the sales, erasing references to Abe and his wife as well as other political figures. “I…

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Sindhu to be India’s flagbearer in Gold Coast CWG

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Star shuttler P V Sindhu has been named the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast next month. According to sources in the Indian Olympic Association, 2016 Olympic silver medallist Sindhu’s rising stature in recent years clinched the issue in her favour for the coveted position. The opening ceremony will be held on April 4. Having won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics two years ago, the Hyderabad-based World No. 3 Sindhu is one of the favourites to win the…

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