According to a Washington Post report, Ramamoorthy’s attorney James Amberg cited the 2015 Tamil movie, ‘Visaranai’, to defend his client, saying the film and Indian systems had given him the impression that “corrupt police” officers force and torture convicts to make incriminating statements.

The river is making its way into the homes of people, because, over the years, the city has encroached river bodies.

A sedition case was filed in a court in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur against cricketer-turned-politician Navot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Asian Games: Vinesh Phogat is the only wrestler to reach the final in women’s wrestling.

Yogi Adityanath also said that blood and garbage is not dumped in open drains, so that religious sentiment of other communities is not hurt.

In what can be seen as a protest against police's action to crackdown illegal activities, a group of transgenders stripped naked on the streets of Green Park in South Delhi.A video was recorded by passersby and widely shared on WhatsApp. It obviously caused traffic woes to the general public.A police officer said whenever transgenders are asked to move from one area, they reacted similarly.

These floods will subside but the wave of hate soaking the country's fabric may take longer to dry off.

Palayattu has apologised for his comments in a Facebook video and claimed that he was in an inebriated state. "I am really sorry for what I did. I was in an inebriated state when I posted that message. At that time I did not know what I did was a grave mistake."

Nottingham, Aug 20 (IANS) Skipper Virat Kohli (93 not out) led from the front as India had scored 270/3 at tea, taking their overall lead to 438 runs on the third day of the third Test against England here on Monday. After missing the century by three runs in the first innings, Kohli is seven runs short of his 23rd Test ton. Cheteshwar Pujara (72) was the only batsman to be dismissed in the second session.

New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) India's domestic air passenger traffic rose by 20.82 per cent in July, official data showed on Monday.

Jakarta, Aug 20 (IANS) India's quadruple sculls team and Dushyant entered the finals in rowing competitions of the 18th Asian Games here on Monday. Dushyant topped Heat 1 of the men's lightweight single sculls with a timing of 7:43.08 minutes to make it to the final. In the men's lightweight double sculls, India's team of Sawarn Singh, Om Prakash, Sukhmeet Singh and Dattu Bhokanal completed the Heat 1 in the top spot with a timing of 6:15.18 to enter the final.

Chennai, Aug 20 (IANS) Even as different estimates of losses suffered by Kerala in the monsoon floods are doing the rounds, general insurance experts on Monday said that there will certainly be an increase in the premium charged by reinsurers for covering flood risks. In the case of Kerala floods, the loss will be higher under the motor insurance portfolio as the state has a xxxxable number of costly vehicles, they added. Loss deductibles are the amount of loss that a primary insurer has to bear from its own pockets while anything above it is borne by the reinsurer.

New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Leasing activity in the logistics and warehousing sector across seven major cities in India rose by 45 per cent during January-June 2018, on a year-on-year basis to around 10 million square feet, a CBRE report said on Monday. The increase in leasing activity was driven by consolidation and expansion in e-commerce, third party logistics, retail, and engineering and manufacturing sectors among others, it said.

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat gifted India it's second gold and 5th medal in the ongoing Asian Games 2018 at Jakarta, Indonesia. It was an comfortable win against Yuki Irie of Japan in the women's freestyle 50kg as she did not give her opponest any chance and came out a dominant winner with a 8-2 score. She became only the fifth Indian woman to win an Asian Games medal in wrestling, and the first among those to clinch gold.

Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) Share of imports in non-coking coal consumption is expected to fall to 13.4 per cent in the financial year (FY) 2023 from 19.6 per cent in 2017-18, said a report released on Monday. The report, prepared by Crisil Research, also said that growth in steel production is expected to push up demand for metallurgical coking coal to 65 million tonne (mt) in fiscal 2023 from 51 mt in fiscal 2018, logging a compound annual growth rate of 5 per cent. It said the consumption of non-coking coal is estimated to clock a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4 per cent to 1,076 million tonne in fiscal 2023 from 826 mt in the last fiscal. "The share of imports in non-coking coal consumption is forecast to fall to 13.4 per cent in fiscal 2023 from 19.6 per cent in fiscal 2018.

Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) American singer Nick Jonas left a group of orphan Indian girls "love struck" by singing his song "Lovebug" for them, says his fiancee and actress Priyanka Chopra. Nick was in India with his parents for a few days last week as they had flown in for a 'roka' -- traditional Indian pre-wedding ceremony -- with Priyanka. During the visit, Nick and Priyanka also made time to visit the girls at the St. Catherine's orphanage here.