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Enforcement Directorate initiates probe against Reebok(Economic Times
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IPL GC discusses Deccan Chargers mess, player payments(Times of India
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opportunity to represent the country at international sporting events
is a highpoint in every athlete’s career. Athletes commit to training
persistently for years in pursuance of this objective. In India, the
Indian Olympic Association (“IOA”) performs the crucial function of
finalizing athletes to represent India at the Olympics and other
international sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games, Asian
Games etc. 
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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