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Former India captain Virat Kohli gave a "passionate team talk" ahead of the team's practice in Leicester. The Men in Blue are gearing up for the rescheduled fifth Test against England.

As part of their preparation, Rohit Sharma-led India will play a warm-up match against English county team Leicestershire between June 23-26. Kohli was seen giving a pep talk to his teammates on the eve of the practice match.

Trevally with soy syrup, wasabi peas, kewpie mayo and micro basil at Depot in Auckland. (Photo: CNA/Hidayah Salamat)
“There's a need to look at it from a [different] perspective. Agnipath isn't a standalone scheme in itself. When PM Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, one of his priorities was how to make India secure and strong. That required many avenues and steps. Agnipath is in that direction,” he said in an interview with news agency ANI.

Learning Mandarin in Hong Kong in 1971 soon after he joined the Indian Foreign Service opened “a whole new and fascinating world” for Shyam Saran. “I was coming face to face with a civilization with a long and varied history, a philosophical and cultural heritage of enormous richness, and a view of the world quite distinct and indeed different from others,” he writes in the introduction to his new book, How China Sees India and the World.  Saran spent six years in China in two stints and witnessed its “rapid and far-reaching transformation”. China is today the world’s second-largest economy after the U.S., and is already a leader in new-age technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing and space exploration. He explains why despite India and China being roughly at the same economic level once, India is now a “retreating image in China’s rear-view mirror.” An excerpt:  

India and China were roughly at the same economic level in 1978, with similar GDP and per capita income. Though China began to grow much faster

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