Making sense of breaking stories

Rest in Peace, Phil Hughes

Australian batsman Phil Hughes, who died on Thursday aged 25, will forever be remembered as one of Australian cricket's free spirits. A pugnacious left-hander brimming with self-confidence, his life was tragically cut short when he was hit on the head by a ball and never regained consciousness. The violent manner of his death has shaken the cricket community, and the world of sport.

MS Dhoni's CSK to pay the price for Meiyappan's misdeeds

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the Chennai Super Kings should be "terminated without further enquiry" from the Indian Premier League because one of the team's officials, Gurunath Meiyappan, has been indicted for betting by the Justice Mudgal panel. If this happens, this would mean the end of one of the IPL's most successful franchises, having won the title in 2010 and 2011 and been the finalist in 2008, 2012 and 2013.

Army gets it right in Kashmir, finally

The indictment of nine soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer, for the Budgam firing incident is a long overdue course correction on the part of the Army. For long there has been a perception, sometimes not without justification, that the Army acts with impunity in the Valley and its excesses don't get punished because of the AFSPA. Two teenagers were killed and two others injured in the Budgam incident and the Army has done the right thing by taking responsibility and indicting the personnel involved.

Twist in Badaun case: Suicide, not rape

The Central Bureau of Investigation has revealed that the two Dalit girls found hanging from a tree in Badaun in May this year, had committed suicide. They were neither raped, nor murdered as everyone had believed. If this indeed is the case, it also needs to be examined how it got around that the girls had been raped and murdered, details which sparked a massive outrage across the country.