Express 5: The pattern in CBI chief’s guest list; discussing ‘love jihad’

A scrutiny of entry and exit logs at the New Delhi residence of CBI director Ranjit Sinha shows a pattern in the visits by a range of individuals: the frequency with which these individuals called on Sinha increased as CBI investigations against them or their close associates picked up pace.

Tracking Sinha’s guests: They visited just as their cases heated up – Special report by Ritu Sarin and Appu Esthose Suresh

2. RNG AWARDS:

It is never easy deciding the extraordinary from the works of extraordinary journalists. But that is precisely what the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards have come to represent — a benchmark of excellence, acknowledging the best in Indian journalism, print and broadcast, and in all languages.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to present RNG Awards on Sep 9, Mariane Pearl to deliver first memorial lecture

3. LOVE JIHAD:

This is the first time that the RSS has addressed the alleged phenomenon of love jihad through its mouthpieces.

Within a fortnight of the BJP dropping plans to discuss “love jihad” at its UP state executive meeting, two Sangh magazines have put the alleged phenomenon of deceitful religious conversion of Hindu women on their covers.

As 12 seats in UP prepare to vote, 2 RSS magazines discuss ‘love jihad’ – Lalmani Verma reports

4. OPINION:

A potent mix of nostalgia and unresolved hurt has come to drive world politics. And Modi’s alliterative vocabulary for international relations needs a third leg.

Past is political by Pratap Bhanu Mehta

5. INDIA IN ENGLAND:

India’s Suresh Raina was adjudged the man of the series for his all round contribution. (Source: AP)

Which venue, then, would have been more apt than the Yorkshire County Cricket Club ground to play for pride at, something England looked to do against a rampant India in the fifth and final one-day international? And which place is better than ‘God’s Own County’ to do the improbable? And who better than a Yorkshireman to make it happen?

Three-one after one-three by Daksh Panwar