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News brief: Big stories of the day

2+2 dialogue in New Delhi

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As India and the US concluded their much awaited 2+2 dialogue in New Delhi, the US gave India elbow room to manoeuvre through the contentious Russian S400 missile defence system.

Beijing expressed anger on Thursday (September 6) after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in "provocation" and that it had lodged a strong complaint.

Tesla Chief Elon Musk has launched another scathing attack on the British diver who helped rescue the 12 boys from a cave in Thailand, calling him a child rapist. 

Hours after dissolving the assembly, Telangana chief minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party chief  K Chandrashekhar Rao announcing a list of 105 candidates for the assembly elections today.

Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh slammed the Indian selectors for being biased. Singh expressed surprise at the selectors' decision to not include Mayank Agarwal for the upcoming Asia Cup 2018.