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Excerpt | Revolver That Was Silent For 21 Years: Life Of 'Encounter Specialist' Daya Nayak
Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist in the Mumbai Police, has not fired a single shot from his revolver in the last 21 years. He last used it in 2004 to kill an alleged gangster in Malad.
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Excerpt | 'Jeetu Bhai, Many Have Been Killed': A Journalist Recounts 2006 Mumbai Train Blasts
"'Jeetu bhai!!! A bomb has exploded in a train outside my building! Many people have been killed. Send a camera unit fast,' Odysteven Gomes from my channel screamed on the phone...I hastily left the cinema hall and rang the cops to get more details.
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Jurors In Sean 'Diddy' Combs Case See Clips Of 'Freak-Off' Sex Marathons
The jury at Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial got a glimpse at some of the "freak-off" sex marathons at the heart of the case, with prosecutors showing excerpts of explicit videos that hip-hop mogul recorded during the drug-fueled sessions.
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Excerpt | Unseen Notes of India's 2nd Army Chief, And The 1948 Kashmir Crisis
An excerpt from 'Commanded by Destiny', by Independent India's second Chief of Army Staff, SM Srinagesh, throws new light on the 1948 Kashmir crisis.
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Joe Biden Failed To Recognise George Clooney At 2024 Fundraiser, New Book Claims
Former US President Joe Biden did not recognise actor George Clooney at a fundraiser in the last month of his 2024 presidential campaign, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book.
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Book Excerpt: As Dark As Blood, By Yasser Usman
An excerpt from author Yasser Usman's latest book, As Dark As Blood
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Excerpt | 'I Don't Even Know If There's A Strategy': On Israel-Palestine Conflict
"'Isn't this mindless vengeance? Does this help Israel meet its long-term strategic objectives?' I asked the Israeli journalist. 'I don't know. I don't even know if there's a strategy,' he replied."
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Book Excerpt | How Manmohan Singh Helped India Beat China To Mars
How India's maiden mission to Mars became 'Mangalyaan': Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2012 speech written in Urdu hid the answers.
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Book Excerpt | AFSPA, And When Army Enters The Realm Of Governance
There is a difference between rights violations in wartime and peacetime, governed by domestic law and subject to judicial review. This is where the vesting of the armed forces with AFSPA powers is unique in terms of its interface with democracy.
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Book Excerpt | When A 10-Year-Old Sachin Tendulkar Sneaked Into Wankhede
Exactly ten Novembers ago, Tendulkar played his final match for India, in a farewell Test series culminating on this very ground in Wankhede Stadium. Today, he is fifty years of age, yet the aura about him hasn't diminished.
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Book Excerpt | 'Boastful': How Terrorist Masood Azhar Spent His Time In Jail In India
Mohananey also said that Masood was aware and boastful about his importance. He apparently claimed that when he landed at Heathrow Airport in London, a massive crowd of followers came to see him, resulting in a two-hour traffic jam.
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Book Excerpt | How Treating Pain Can Help You Sleep
Areas in your brain which recognize pain signals also regulate sleep. Persistent pain causes lack of sleep or impacts its quality and, in turn, poor sleep prevents chronic inflammation from shutting off.
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Book Excerpt | Modi's Impact Runs Deeper Than Material Achievements
"Those in power who have kept a distance from the hearts and the minds of the common man can't understand why Modi has surpassed all political expectations. Or what the Modi Phenomena is," journalist Pradeep Bhandari writes in his book. Excerpts:
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Book Excerpt | Crypto, Drugs, Dark Web: Inside India's Murky Marketplaces
Here is an excerpt from Mitali Mukherjee's book 'Crypto Crimes: Inside India's Best-Kept Secret', which delves into the murky underbelly of the crypto world and its spread across India.
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Book Excerpt | How Online Campaigns Shape Voting Patterns In India
The Singh-Srivastava Vote Predictor measures the engagement that politicians and political parties receive on Twitter and correlates this online engagement with a predictive vote share offline.
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Excerpt | Revolver That Was Silent For 21 Years: Life Of 'Encounter Specialist' Daya Nayak
Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist in the Mumbai Police, has not fired a single shot from his revolver in the last 21 years. He last used it in 2004 to kill an alleged gangster in Malad.
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Excerpt | 'Jeetu Bhai, Many Have Been Killed': A Journalist Recounts 2006 Mumbai Train Blasts
"'Jeetu bhai!!! A bomb has exploded in a train outside my building! Many people have been killed. Send a camera unit fast,' Odysteven Gomes from my channel screamed on the phone...I hastily left the cinema hall and rang the cops to get more details.
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Jurors In Sean 'Diddy' Combs Case See Clips Of 'Freak-Off' Sex Marathons
The jury at Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial got a glimpse at some of the "freak-off" sex marathons at the heart of the case, with prosecutors showing excerpts of explicit videos that hip-hop mogul recorded during the drug-fueled sessions.
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Excerpt | Unseen Notes of India's 2nd Army Chief, And The 1948 Kashmir Crisis
An excerpt from 'Commanded by Destiny', by Independent India's second Chief of Army Staff, SM Srinagesh, throws new light on the 1948 Kashmir crisis.
-
Joe Biden Failed To Recognise George Clooney At 2024 Fundraiser, New Book Claims
Former US President Joe Biden did not recognise actor George Clooney at a fundraiser in the last month of his 2024 presidential campaign, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book.
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Book Excerpt: As Dark As Blood, By Yasser Usman
An excerpt from author Yasser Usman's latest book, As Dark As Blood
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Excerpt | 'I Don't Even Know If There's A Strategy': On Israel-Palestine Conflict
"'Isn't this mindless vengeance? Does this help Israel meet its long-term strategic objectives?' I asked the Israeli journalist. 'I don't know. I don't even know if there's a strategy,' he replied."
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Book Excerpt | How Manmohan Singh Helped India Beat China To Mars
How India's maiden mission to Mars became 'Mangalyaan': Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2012 speech written in Urdu hid the answers.
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Book Excerpt | AFSPA, And When Army Enters The Realm Of Governance
There is a difference between rights violations in wartime and peacetime, governed by domestic law and subject to judicial review. This is where the vesting of the armed forces with AFSPA powers is unique in terms of its interface with democracy.
-
Book Excerpt | When A 10-Year-Old Sachin Tendulkar Sneaked Into Wankhede
Exactly ten Novembers ago, Tendulkar played his final match for India, in a farewell Test series culminating on this very ground in Wankhede Stadium. Today, he is fifty years of age, yet the aura about him hasn't diminished.
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Book Excerpt | 'Boastful': How Terrorist Masood Azhar Spent His Time In Jail In India
Mohananey also said that Masood was aware and boastful about his importance. He apparently claimed that when he landed at Heathrow Airport in London, a massive crowd of followers came to see him, resulting in a two-hour traffic jam.
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Book Excerpt | How Treating Pain Can Help You Sleep
Areas in your brain which recognize pain signals also regulate sleep. Persistent pain causes lack of sleep or impacts its quality and, in turn, poor sleep prevents chronic inflammation from shutting off.
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Book Excerpt | Modi's Impact Runs Deeper Than Material Achievements
"Those in power who have kept a distance from the hearts and the minds of the common man can't understand why Modi has surpassed all political expectations. Or what the Modi Phenomena is," journalist Pradeep Bhandari writes in his book. Excerpts:
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Book Excerpt | Crypto, Drugs, Dark Web: Inside India's Murky Marketplaces
Here is an excerpt from Mitali Mukherjee's book 'Crypto Crimes: Inside India's Best-Kept Secret', which delves into the murky underbelly of the crypto world and its spread across India.
-
Book Excerpt | How Online Campaigns Shape Voting Patterns In India
The Singh-Srivastava Vote Predictor measures the engagement that politicians and political parties receive on Twitter and correlates this online engagement with a predictive vote share offline.
