The tragedy unfolding in the aftermath of the Kerala floods is finding an echo in faraway Indonesia where athletes from the state have anxiety in their hearts but have their minds focused on the Asian Games. A swimmer didn't even know of it until a journalist enquired, a sprinter is worried, while a hockey player is just relieved that his family is in a safe zone, even though he is heartbroken for the state. The Shiv Sena on Monday hit out cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan's army chief General Javed Bajwa during his visit to Pakistan for the oath-taking ceremony of its new Prime Minister Imran Khan. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday announced that his party would contest the 2019 parliamentary elections in Haryana independently. Irked over the delay by the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) in starting re-calculation of enhancement charges on plots, the Haryana State HUDA Sectors Confederation on Sunday announced to re-launch its agitation at the district level after August 22 and gherao the state Assembly on September 10. The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to respond to a petition challenging a February 2018 Allahabad High Court order accepting the state's decision to decline sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Adityanath in an 11-year-old hate speech case. The CBI on Monday told the Supreme Court that it had filed the third chargesheet against security personnel in connection with alleged fake encounters in Manipur. CBI Director Alok Kumar Verma had on July 30 told the top court that the agency's Special Investigation Team (SIT) had filed two chargesheets against 15 security personnel in connection with fake encounter killings and 14 of them had been charged with murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. Verma had told a Bench