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The Morning Wrap: Ramdev And MSG Want Frisk-Free Flying; Army Foxed By Militants' High Tech Phones

The Morning Wrap: Ramdev And MSG Want Frisk-Free Flying; Army Foxed By Militants' High Tech Phones
Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev performs yoga at the 'Yoga Mahotsav' in New Delhi on March 23, 2014. Ramdev is launching a 'Yoga Mahotsav' across India with millions of people scheduled to take part in yoga sessions including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate for India's forthcoming general election and Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat Narendra Modi. India, the world's biggest democracy, announced the start of national elections on April 7 that are expected to bring Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi to power on a platform of economic revival. AFP PHOTO /SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev performs yoga at the 'Yoga Mahotsav' in New Delhi on March 23, 2014. Ramdev is launching a 'Yoga Mahotsav' across India with millions of people scheduled to take part in yoga sessions including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate for India's forthcoming general election and Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat Narendra Modi. India, the world's biggest democracy, announced the start of national elections on April 7 that are expected to bring Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi to power on a platform of economic revival. AFP PHOTO /SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Former diplomats tell HuffPost India that India can only pursue the Saudi Arabia-diplomat rape allegations upto a point.

Members of the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena took their protest against the ban on the sale of meat by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation during the Jain period of fasting on September 10, 13, 17 and 18, to the streets by setting up stalls to sell chicken meat in Mumbai's Dadar area.

This footage of a teacher thrashing and abusing an injured ten-year-old student has gone viral on social media. It was recorded in April.

Coldplay's next album will likely feature a video of Chris Martin and other members playing Holi with Mumbai children.

In yet another case of hate crime against an Indian in the US, an elderly Sikh-American man was brutally attacked and allegedly called a "terrorist" and "Bin Laden".

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The Samajwadi Party is trying hard to protect a Noida engineer accused of corruption, because they are all involved in a dubious financial transaction.

The Punjab government has raised the allowance it gives to Sikh army men, who deserted the army, during Operation Bluestar in 1984.

Investigating a Rs 1.25-crore robbery on September 8 in Delhi’s Kamla Market, police have found that the money belonged to R S Rungta, a director in Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd (JIPL), who is on trial in the coal block allocation case.

The Gujarat High Court is to decide a case on whether a Muslim man needs consent of his divorced wife to marry again.

Indian military authorities are perplexed with new tech, acquired by militants, which allow them to use mobile phones without SIM cards.

Off The Front Page

The Narendra Modi government is considering requests from yoga practitioner Baba Ramdev and self-styled godman Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to exempt them from frisking at airports.

Men found harassing or eve-teasing in Muzaffarnagar will be locked up in public 'cages' according to a police order.

A purported new species of human ancestor has been discovered called H. naledi.

A consumer panel has ruled that cinema-goers are entitled to free water inside cinema halls.

Opinion

Minxin Pei says that President Xi needs to take some hard political or economic decisions rather than depend on a display of military prowess.

Swapan Dasgupta says that Israel is the only oasis in a troubled Middle East.

A Hindustan Times editorial says that the Saudi diplomat rape case shouldn't be allowed to harm relations between the two countries.

M K Narayanan says that the devil, in the Naga accord, is in the details.

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