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Incidents like the Aligarh girl’s murder show how social media is being used to tar a particular community and fan fear Earlier this month, the body of a two-year-old who had gone missing from her home in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh was found at a dumping ground nearby. White-hot outrage followed on Twitter, and many, including influential celebrity handles, described how a man called Zahid had raped the child and gouged out her eyes.

Twenty years ago, on June 8, 1999, when India last played Pakistan in a World Cup game at Old Trafford, seamer Venkatesh Prasad took five for 27 to bowl India to a 47-run win. Speaking to TOI on the eve of the marquee clash between the arch-rivals at the same historic venue, Prasad gave a first person account of that day in Manchester while conceding that India's current pace battery is ahead of the one he was part of...

PEBBLE BEACH: Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri carded a disappointing three-over 74 in the opening day and will need a strong second round to make the cut at the 119th US Open. Lahiri, who missed the cut twice in 2015 and 2016 editions, opened with two bogeys and a double bogey before managing 74 to lie Tied-98th after the first round. In his fifth year on the PGA, Lahiri will now have to produce a hugely improved performance to make his first cut in three US Open appearances.