Daily Newsletter | Sunday, December 03, 2017
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| 1,600 personnel die every year without India going to war |
| Without going to war, India loses around 1,600 military personnel every year. And the single biggest killers are road accidents and suicides, much more than counter-insurgency operations or firing duels with Pakistan along the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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| No recompense for many road mishap victims’ kin |
| Expressing distress that there’s one death every three minutes in road accidents in India, but legal heirs of only half of the victims receive compensation, the Supreme Court has issued a slew of directions to states to set up a road safety policy as well as dedicated safety funds. |
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| HWL Final 2017: Ward strikes twice as England beat India 3-2 |
| Samuel Ward struck twice as England beat India 3-2 to record their first win of the HWL Final on Saturday. England had a lacklustre game vs Germany in their HWL opener, losing 0-2 whereas India, despite being wasteful, held Australia to a 1-1 draw. India continued to be wasteful but England improved. |
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| HWL Final: Spain stave off Netherlands threat for 3-2 win |
| As the last 10 seconds approached, not one red shirt from Spain was anywhere inside the Netherlands half. In the end, Spain managed to stave off the late charge and started their Hockey World League Final with 3-2 win at the Kalinga Stadium on Saturday. |
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| Govt to sell AI’s desi, international ops together |
| Bids will be sought for AI’s domestic and international operations as an ‘integrated airline’, Union minister of state for aviation Jayant Sinha said on Friday. Interested parties will be allowed to bid separately for subsidiaries of AI. |
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