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Chef’s Last Supper: Cook scores a dogged hundred in his final Test knock

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Legend has it that Sir Don Bradman was teary-eyed when he was beaten by Eric Hollies’ googly in his final Test match at the Oval in 1948.However, just over 70 years later at the same ground, Alastair Cook showed no such emotions as he scored another workmanlike hundred, his 33rd and final one in Test cricket, against India. Interestingly, his debut hundred was also against India, at Nagpur in 2006.Not many have scored a hundred on their debut and farewell Test and Cook joined the elite club which also has Greg…

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Pak govt plans to renegotiate agreements reached under China’s BRI: Report

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s newly elected government plans to renegotiate the agreements reached under China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it “unfairly benefits Chinese companies”, according to a media report.The projects concerned are part of the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) plan – the most ambitious part of the BRI, which seeks to connect Asia and Europe along the ancient silk road, The Financial Times reported.The ministers and the advisors of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government said the agreement “unfairly benefits Chinese companies,” the paper reported. The CPEC,…

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Son of Hizb chief sent to judicial custody by Delhi court

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A Delhi court today sent the second son of Syed Salahuddin, the chief of the banned Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, to judicial custody in connection with a 2011 terror funding case for allegedly receiving money from his father. District Judge Poonam A Bamba sent 48-year-old Syed Ahmed Shakeel to custody after he was produced before it on expiry of his NIA custody granted earlier. The second son of Salahuddin, a globally-wanted terrorist, was arrested on August 30 by the NIA in connection with the terror funding case.The NIA officials, accompanied by the state…

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Infosys inks 3-year deal with Australian Open

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India’s second largest software services firm Infosys said Monday it has signed a three-year partnership with the Australian Open as its official digital innovation partner.Infosys will leverage its expertise in emerging technologies like Big Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality, to provide unique, innovative and engaging experiences for fans, Infosys said in a statement.The financial details of the deal were, however, not disclosed.Partnering with Infosys is an exciting next step in our ongoing quest to innovate the Australian Open and engage new audiences across…

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Yogendra Yadav on way to meet farmers detained by TN police

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Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav was detained here Saturday when he was on his way to express solidarity with farmers protesting against the proposed Salem-Chennai Expressway project, police said.Yadav and some others were detained at Chengam in this district, they said without elaborating.The Swaraj Abhiyan leader tweeted that he was “manhandled” and pushed into a police van.”We came on the invitation of Movement Against 8Lane Way. We were prevented from going to meet farmers, phones snatched, manhandled and pushed into police van. Firsthand experience of police state in TN,” he…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Don’t think I’ll get married again: Kalki Koechlin

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Actor Kalki Koechlin believes society has built the institution of marriage in a way where women are still looked at as the weaker sex.In an interview published in a recently launched book, “Feminist Rani”, penned by Shaili Chopra and Meghna Pant, the actor said the “biggest problem” with marriage, especially for a woman, is the idea of “ownership”. Kalki and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who got married in 2011, went through a divorce in 2015 after being separated for two years.”Once I got married, I was only invited to the things…

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18 dead as Syria Kurds clash with regime forces

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Clashes between Kurdish forces and regime fighters in the divided northeastern city of Qamishli killed 18 combatants Saturday, the Kurdish forces and a war monitor said. The rare flare-up in the Kurdish-majority city near the Turkish border saw 11 regime fighters and seven Kurds killed, the Kurdish security forces known as Asayesh said in a statement.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported the same death toll for the fighting near a Kurdish checkpoint in the city. The Asayesh said a regime “patrol opened fire on our…

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Playing just Tests makes job tougher, I want to play all three formats: Jadeja

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Spinner Ravindra Jadeja remains determined to represent India in all three formats as he feels playing only Tests is not enough to keep him in good shape for international cricket. Jadeja took two for 57 on day one of the fifth and final Test, which happens to be his first of the series.”For me the biggest thing is that I am playing for India and maybe some day if I do well, I will be back playing all three formats of the game soon enough. But my aim is to…

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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma announces plans to retire at 54

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 Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education, he told the New York Times in an interview.Ma was an English teacher before starting Alibaba in 1999 and built it into a multibillion-dollar internet colossus, becoming one of the world’s richest men and a revered figure in his homeland.His own worth has soared along with that of the company, which was valued at USD 420.8 billion based on its share price at the close…

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SC judge criticises govt for leaving it to wisdom of court to decide on Section 377

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A Supreme Court judge expressed disappointment over the government’s decision to leave it to the court’s wisdom to take a call on sensitive issues such as the recent challenge to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalised homosexuality between consenting adults, saying that politicians handing such power to the judges are happening on everyday basis.Justice D Y Chandrachud, who was a member of the five-judge constitution bench which ruled that gay sex among consenting adults was no more a criminal offence, said on Saturday that in Section 377…

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