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T20 World Cup: Behind cricket craze and steady growth in Nepal

Cricket - ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 - Group C - England v Nepal - Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India - February 8, 2026 Nepal's Sandeep Lamichhane celebrates with teammate Rohit Paudel after taking the wicket of England's Tom Banton REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 10, 2026 07:30 am IST

A new chapter in India-Malaysia ties

Anwar, who has deep ties with India and its people, appears to have embraced New Delhi as an important strategic and trade partner. (DPR PMO/ANI)

Published on Feb 09, 2026 09:07 pm IST

Demography fears and national well-being

Even the poor, across communities, now recognise that larger families are an economic burden and that more child births harm the mother’s health. (HT Archive)

Published on Feb 09, 2026 09:07 pm IST

On Delhi’s many stories

Aishwarya Jha (L) and Sara Abdullah Pilot, co-founders of Kahaani: Dilli Ki (Pix courtesy Kahaani: Dilli Ki)

Updated on Feb 10, 2026 03:47 am IST

Ecostani: Indian apple growers brace for impact of trade agreements

New Zealand will provide an “action plan” for apple growers.

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 05:05 pm IST

Keeping up with UP: UGC equity regulations and political fallout

The regulations reignited the caste rift on campuses. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 04:50 pm IST

Brazil Criminalizes Transgender Dissent

Representative image. (AP)

Published on Feb 09, 2026 10:40 am IST

Jimmy Lai Gets a Death Sentence

Jimmy Lai in 2020.

Published on Feb 09, 2026 09:52 am IST

Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday was performed almost entirely in Spanish.

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 09:55 am IST

How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday as her party headed for a landslide victory in snap polls. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 09:15 pm IST

What T20 metrics should really matter

India's captain Suryakumar Yadav plays a shot during the T20 World Cup against United States in Mumbai. (AP)

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 07:36 am IST

What I wish I’d known when filing my late father’s tax return

Anne Tergesen, left, with her siblings and parents.

Updated on Feb 08, 2026 03:21 pm IST

Who might succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister?

“RESTORING TRUST in politics is the great test of our era,” Sir Keir Starmer writes in the foreword to Britain’s Ministerial Code(via REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 08, 2026 03:14 pm IST

Guns, Motorbikes, Assassins on Skis and the Wildest Race on the Olympic Slopes

The most watched skiing in Cortina wasn’t at the Olympics. It was in a James Bond movie.

Published on Feb 08, 2026 03:06 pm IST

Checks and Balance newsletter: The danger of prediction markets

The past year has seen a new surge in activity on prediction markets, with “event contracts” traded on digital platforms.

Published on Feb 08, 2026 02:58 pm IST

The U.S. Navy’s new insurance policy for war with China is an Australian base

The Virginia-class USS Minnesota docked at the HMAS Stirling base in Western Australia last year.

Published on Feb 08, 2026 02:50 pm IST

Plot Twist newsletter: The TV shows you never knew were almost cancelled

Only just before the Canadian premiere of “Heated Rivalry” did HBO Max buy the rights to distribute the show in America and Australia(HBO Max)

Published on Feb 08, 2026 02:41 pm IST

Book Box: The Correspondent from Frankfurt

I pull out my phone, plug in my earphones, and settle down to listen to the audiobook version of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Updated on Feb 09, 2026 06:05 am IST

Just Like That: A civilisation proud of writers but careless with their legacy

His haveli in Ballimaran, Old Delhi, was for decades a monument of neglect—hemmed in by encroachments, stripped of dignity, its genius obscured by grime. (Getty)

Updated on Feb 08, 2026 07:15 pm IST

Between the lines: Decoding the India-US joint statement

The India-US joint statement issued on Saturday morning finally gives much awaited details about the broad contours of the engagement over trade between the two countries (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 08, 2026 08:48 am IST

The devil is in the compromise: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

It isn’t that the first shift damns you; it’s that the second takes far less effort. (Shutterstock)

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 04:08 pm IST

Yore’s sincerely: Decoding the origin of handsome, pittance, shambles

For something to technically be a shambles, it would need to be covered somewhat in slaughtered meat! Even the Shambles aren’t a shambles any more. Above, stores line a street in York where butchers once displayed meat on “fleshammels” or “flesh shelves”, which is where we get the term. (Wikinedia)

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 03:59 pm IST

See you swoon?: Deepanjana Pal on plot tangles, Bridgerton and Heated Rivalry

In some ways, Heated Rivalry (2025) is beating Bridgerton at its own game. It has the elaborate intimacy scenes, and doesn’t lose track of the plot.

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 03:42 pm IST

Floating cities, shrunken rivers: World-building is taking off in Indian cinema

The Complex, the floating inverted pyramid home to the elite, in the complex imagined world of Kalki 2898 AD.

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 03:40 pm IST

Why a 175-year-old glassmaker is suddenly an AI superstar

Corning’s cables are suddenly in demand because of physics: Data can be sent far more quickly and with less energy using light

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 03:11 pm IST

Squeezed by U.S. and China, the world’s middle powers are teaming up

As the U.S. and China reshape the global order, middle powers are deepening cooperation in trade and security to avoid being sidelined.(AP)

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 01:41 pm IST

America may be reaching peak Spanish

Last week the Puerto Rican singer became the first musician to win an album-of-the-year Grammy for one entirely in Spanish(AP)

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 12:59 pm IST

Lawsuits over transgender medicine for minors could be huge

Thousands of American girls have had elective mastectomies as part of gender-transition treatment(Representative photo/ Unsplash)

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 12:10 pm IST

Does being induced lead to a medicalised birth?

Studies find labor induction rarely triggers extra interventions, and can even lower C-section rates for overdue pregnancies(Representative photo/ Unsplash)

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 12:05 pm IST

HistoriCity: Public finance and taxes in early Indian history

A budget (comes from the word bulge or a bag) was certainly not presented in any modern sense. (World Hole Oceanographic institution website)

Updated on Feb 07, 2026 11:50 am IST

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