The end of Doklam standoff is neither a win nor a loss, it is an opportunity; BJP wins both seats in Goa bypoll; AAP retains Bawana seat; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [The End of the Doklam Standoff Is Neither a Win nor a Loss, It Is an Opportunity]( Prem Shankar Jha [The Indian withdrawal is an admission by New Delhi that it had no legal justification for its military presence in Doklam. For while there was a dispute over ownership of the plateau, it was between Bhutan and China and there is no record in the public domain of Bhutan asking for India’s help in dealing with the Chinese incursion. Beijing had warned India that it regarded the presence of Indian troops in Doklam as an act of aggression, not once, but four times in the past six weeks – in a 15 page statement of its legal position issued in July, in a formal demand by foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on August 22 that said India must remove its troops from the Doklam side of the watershed as a prerequisite for peace, and in two categorical statements by its ambassador in Delhi following these declarations.]( [BJP Wins Both Seats in Bypoll, But Congress Remains Single Largest Party in Goa]( Devika Sequeira [The by-election victory has taken the BJP’s tally up by one seat only, to 14 MLAs. With 16 seats, the Congress is still the single largest party in the 40-member House.]( [AAP Retains Bawana Assembly Seat, Defeats BJP By Over 24,000 Votes]( Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar [The BJP was hoping that using a candidate who defected from AAP would push them over the edge, but that was not to be.]( [After Triple Talaq, a Look At the Other Discriminatory Personal Laws That Need to Go]( Shalaka Patil [If the legislature is serious about introducing gender parity in personal laws, it should not focus all its energies on one particular religion.]( [Is There an Organised Attempt to Scuttle Customs Agency’s Probes Against Adani Group?]( Varun Santhosh [The adjudicating authority in the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence case on alleged over-invoicing of power equipment has evidently been sympathetic to the Adani group. But this is just one instance.]( [Sher Bahadur Deuba’s India Trip Was Further Evidence of China’s Influence in Nepal]( Biswas Baral [Political parties in Nepal want to be seen as standing up to India, the ‘old bully’, and appearing close to China, the much-needed ‘counterweight’ to India.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](