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Why June quarter capex numbers will be important
UPDATED ON JUN 21, 2021 01:52 PM IST
The jury is still out on the long-term damage to the economy because of the reimposition of lockdown restrictions and the health spending-inflicted shock of the pandemic. It is the long-term impact which matters as far as investment activity by private capital is concerned
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Decoding the Washington-Moscow-Beijing triangle
By Sreeram Chaulia
UPDATED ON JUN 21, 2021 01:35 PM IST
With the presidency of Donald Trump not delivering relief to Russia despite ardent hopes in Moscow, Putin accelerated military and economic cooperation with China to demonstrate that he had other options
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The onus rests on PM Modi to build trust with J&K’s political forces
UPDATED ON JUN 21, 2021 12:36 PM IST
The June 24 invite is an olive branch of sorts but it comes at a time when the trust deficit between J&K and New Delhi is at its lowest. Can Mufti and the Abdullahs trust the government of India again?
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WTC final: Kyle Jamieson times his Virat Kohli battle to perfection
By Sanjjeev K Samyal
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2021 09:45 PM IST
The tall New Zealand fast bowler captures five wickets in helpful conditions at Southampton in the World Test Championship against India
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Euro 2020: Misfiring Alvaro Morata leaves Spain in some despair
By Rutvick Mehta
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2021 11:08 PM IST
This is the first time since 1996 that Spain have failed to win at least one of their first two games at the Euro, and the storyline in both games played out similarly for Spain
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Euro 2020: Bale and Kane, at opposite ends of a Spurs story
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2021 02:17 PM IST
While the Premier League golden boot winner Harry Kane has looked dour in the two matches England have played so far in the Euro 2020, the Wales captain Bale has displayed dazzling form
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The importance of Shafali Verma
By Snehal Pradhan
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2021 01:54 PM IST
Shafali Verma is 17 years old. At 15, she broke a record Sachin Tendulkar had held for 30 years. At 16, she rose to the No. 1 ranking in T20I cricket. At 17, she’s blasting her way through a Test match.
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Milkha Singh: A lot more than the sum of his records
By Sharda Ugra
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 09:57 PM IST
Milkha was India’s first Olympic track finalist, followed by only two men and one woman over the next six decades in individual events.
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Milkha Singh: That race in Rome, 1960
By Dhiman Sarkar, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 07:40 PM IST
Going to the Rome Olympics, Milkha Singh was the reigning Asian and Commonwealth Games 400m champion. The Indian legend finished fourth in the final
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Milkha Singh was gutted but we were so proud of him: GS Randhawa
By Shalini Gupta, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 07:41 PM IST
GS Randhawa - The Olympian, who finished fifth in 110m in Tokyo four years later, remembers the 1960 400m final where Milkha finished fourth
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“Film on Milkha Singh got Pakistan talking about Abdul Khaliq”
By Shalini Gupta, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 07:43 PM IST
Athletics Federation of Pakistan president Muhammad Akram Sahi says bio-pic rekindled memories of that 1960 race in Lahore
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Milkha Singh: Asia’s most dominant runner at his peak
By N Ananthanarayanan, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 07:44 PM IST
Milkha Singh’s rise to athletic stardom is a story littered with great obstacles being overcome; it began with a horrifying tragedy
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Meet the ecologist giving grass roots in the Nilgiris
By Natasha Rego
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 12:47 PM IST
Less than 15% of the Nilgiri plateau remain in its natural state. Restoration ecologist Godwin Vasanth Bosco maintains a nursery of native grasses and has made it his mission to restore as much of the vegetation as possible.
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Where the wild things are: Take a walk inside India’s private forests
By Natasha Rego
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 03:53 PM IST
Meet the mavericks who are rewilding India, one private pocket at a time. It’s a simple but radical approach: Buy plots of land, pull out exotics, plant natives, and let nature take over.
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How to build a toolkit in 20 mins, and other tales: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi
By Charles Assisi
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 12:59 PM IST
Tired of arguing about the workings of fake news, I decided to prove my point. So, I was nominated for a Pulitzer this week, or was I?
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Hit the right note: The Wknd Puzzle by Dilip D’Souza
By By Dilip D’Souza
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 12:59 PM IST
Can you use these clues to decipher who from the Mumbai Harmonics group plays which song, on which instrument, in what key?
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Fungi whisperer: Meet the scientist studying the secret lives of trees
By Natasha Rego
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 01:01 PM IST
Yadugiri VT knows how much magic there is in every mushroom. Her field of research is the ways in which trees and fungi exchange favours deep underground.
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My lost year: A teen finishes school with goals unscored
By Vanessa Viegas
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 01:02 PM IST
Tanvi Kulkarni has gone from being part of a team to spending a year in solitary introspection. ‘I think it’s a very important skill to have in life, being able to sit with defeat and learn from it,’ she says.
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The pandemic is a fitness test for the movie business, says Anupama Chopra
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 10:14 PM IST
Can Bollywood reinvent itself, learn from those who have survived and thrived in this time, and emerge better, stronger?
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Stirring to action: How India’s embattled hotel industry has stepped up to help
By Vir Sanghvi
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 10:16 PM IST
Even as they struggle to survive, the country’s hotels are pitching in on the frontlines, sending meals to doctors, nurses, cops and the needy.
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From film to book, Devashish Makhija’s Oonga is a moral with a story
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 10:16 PM IST
The 2013 film — about a young Adivasi boy’s bid to see good win over evil in his village — received critical acclaim around the world, but never had a commercial release in India. Now, Makhija has turned the story into a young adult novel of the same name, hoping it will finally be heard.
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Read an excerpt from Devashish Makhija’s book, Oonga
By Devashish Makhija
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 10:17 PM IST
The story, based on the 2013 film of the same name, follows a young Adivasi boy who becomes obsessed with local stagings of the Ramayana. If good is destined to win against evil, he reasons, couldn’t he harness it and save his Odisha village from losing land to industrialisation and lives to the conflict between Naxals and government forces?
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Sweet success: How a chocolate brand from Kochi made India proud globally
By Rachel Lopez
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2021 03:01 PM IST
Paul And Mike, a three-year-old brand, is helmed by Vikas Temani, a man with no confectionery background. And yet it ended up winning silver at the International Chocolate Awards last month, Their backstory is hot and a little sweet.
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Euro 2020: In orange, Memphis Depay relives Lyon life
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 11:16 PM IST
Holland coach Frank de Boer has helped the Dutch striker replicate his club form. He helped his team in the Euro 2020 game against Austria
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Indian cities need river-sensitive master plans
By Rajiv Ranjan Mishra and Victor R Shinde
PUBLISHED ON JUN 18, 2021 06:28 PM IST
Last week, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) released the draft Master Plan for Delhi (MPD) 2041 for public review. The plan generated a lot of excitement in the media and among the citizens
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Paradiplomacy: The possibilities, and challenges, of Assam-Bangladesh relations
By Subhrangshu Pratim Sarmah
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 06:06 PM IST
Foreign policy is conventionally seem as the exclusive domain of the sovereign State, while paradiplomacy is the common term used when referring to regional or sub-national governments conducting international engagements
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The G7 deal on minimum corporate tax is flawed
By Ashish Goel and Shilpa Goel
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 05:50 PM IST
According to the US and G7 countries, subjecting companies to a minimum tax rate on a country-by-country basis will end the “race to the bottom” on corporate tax rates, and disincentivise base erosion and profit-shifting (BEPS) practices. But, the proposal is not as straightforward as it seems
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Can India leverage data to conquer cancer?
By Binay Panda
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 05:45 PM IST
Comparing science funding between the US and India is a non-starter. India’s gross expenditure on research and development (R&D) is roughly ₹1.25 lakh crore or less than $20 billion, and accounts for 0.65% of its GDP
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HT Editorial: The real spoiler in Kabul
By HT Editorial
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 04:39 PM IST
Pakistan exports terror and props up Taliban. Its accusations against India are baseless. It has no business in deciding, or even having a view on, what is an acceptable degree of Indian presence in Afghanistan. This is between Delhi and Kabul
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When Indian-Americans shape Washington policy and politics
By Yashwant Raj
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2021 04:28 PM IST
President Joe Biden’s administration has more Indian-Americans in the White House and in Senate-confirmed positions across federal agencies than any administration in the past — 70 appointed or nominated officials, according to Indiaspora, a leading advocacy group for the community