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The Best of Both Sides
India lost the trophy, but it was the best team in the World Cup
Irfan PathanThe majority of those I met were incredibly proud of how the team had played. There was disappointment but also pride
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Express View on Tesla in India: Charging up
April 5, 2024 06:58 IST
Entry of global EV manufacturers like Tesla could help catalyse the segment. Government must ensure commitments on investment, localisation are adhered to
‘Speech-fasting’ and the art of going beyond navel gazing
April 5, 2024 06:45 IST
A benefit of ‘speech fast’ may be better interpersonal relationships. That’s something worth staying silent for
Express View on Indians seeking surrogacy abroad: For love of a child
April 5, 2024 06:23 IST
Trend of wealthy Indians travelling abroad to have children through surrogacy points to problems in India's surrogacy law, which needs updating
April 5, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Six in space
April 5, 2024 06:18 IST
Indian Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma entered his new space home for a week-long stay two hours and six minutes after the Soyuz T-ll docked with orbiting Salyut 7 Soviet space station.
The playing field for 2024 is level. Opposition should trust the voters
April 4, 2024 21:08 IST
Laments about high-handedness have largely come from dynastic parties, whose leaders have been exposed for corruption and, in many cases, convicted
Best of Both Sides: ‘400 Paar’ is a measure for Amrit Kaal, not hegemony
April 4, 2024 22:42 IST
The target isn't about hegemony. It is to show old faultlines have been transcended.
Best of Both Sides: The BJP’s ‘400 Paar’ slogan is about absolute power
April 4, 2024 22:42 IST
The ambition seems less a statement of the party's aspiration, more the assertion of a government's power
Ahead of 2024 polls, not ‘Arogya Mandirs’ but a healthcare manifesto
April 4, 2024 18:39 IST
Technical solutions exist. Implementing these requires strong political will in favour of public health
Nirmala Sitharaman, election finances and revelations about BJP’s limitations
April 4, 2024 18:58 IST
Finance Minister’s claim that she does not have the money, profile to contest Lok Sabha polls suggests that nationalist narratives the BJP puts out periodically mean little because everything ultimately is governed by narratives of money and narrower identities
India Out campaign in Bangladesh: Can Dhaka afford to sever trade ties with Delhi?
April 4, 2024 11:58 IST
Intensification of the campaign stands to derail on-going negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries and disrupt Bangladesh's economic prosperity
Express View on Israel’s latest offensive: A mounting toll
April 4, 2024 07:35 IST
Killing of aid workers, attack on embassy by its forces underline the high costs of Netanyahu government's maximalist position
April 4, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Rakesh Sharma becomes the first Indian in spaceSubscriber Only
April 4, 2024 07:36 IST
India reached out for new frontiers of knowledge as Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, with two fellow Soviet cosmonauts, soared into space aboard T-11 for a historic rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory Salyut 7.
Can’t decide between croissant and cookie? Have a crookie
April 4, 2024 07:30 IST
Creations like the crookie, cronut and cruffin underline that the most enduring foods are also the most versatile.
Express View on Court’s warning to Ramdev: No free pass
April 4, 2024 07:24 IST
Patanjali has been irresponsible for far too long. SC’s latest censure is a warning that there will be no more impunity
At 75, NATO sees reasons to rejoice, facts suggest otherwise
April 4, 2024 10:40 IST
The alliance’s military potential stands as a tool for maintaining the West’s hegemony over the nations that are not viewed as a military menace
India’s fall in fertility rate may be a boon in disguise. Here’s whySubscriber Only
April 4, 2024 10:39 IST
Decline in population growth would increase the amount of capital resources and infrastructure available in per capita terms. Additionally, it would permit the relocation of resources for the education and skill development of children rather than expanding coverage
Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘special privileges’ should be every prisoner’s right
April 4, 2024 14:49 IST
Delhi CM’s incarceration in Tihar is a moment to ask why all inmates are not afforded basic facilities as a norm and not an exception
With a hopeless war in Gaza, how anti-Netanyahu protests are giving Israelis agency
April 3, 2024 20:03 IST
The protesters seem resolved and are asking for accountability for October 7 and a compromise with Hamas for the sake of hostages. Netanyahu appeared shaky when he chose to address the nation
From the Indian Meteorological Department, an extreme heat warning
April 3, 2024 17:54 IST
The IMD report reveals a dire image of rising heat wave conditions in multiple areas — from Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh to the western parts of Madhya Pradesh, the temperature has already crossed 40 degrees
The many truths of Katchatheevu that no party wants to acknowledge
April 4, 2024 02:13 IST
Current controversy should be seen as vote-bank politics, with little remorse shown for the loss of Indian territory or regard for the lives of our fishermen and fisherwomen
Why elites need to listen to the margins
April 4, 2024 10:39 IST
Politics that does not address deep cultural and spiritual sources and the need for a balanced society leads to anger, frustration, resentment. This is what leads to the success of nationalist right-wing politics which is filling the moral void created by a hollow public discourse
India’s atmanirbhar defence sector
April 3, 2024 10:51 IST
The transformation underway in the defence industrial complex has set the stage for multiple stakeholders to rally and promote domestic technological innovation
In the season of Ramadan, lessons in kindness
April 3, 2024 10:48 IST
Most of my Muslim friends have stopped sharing forwards about Gaza, or even talking about it, including me.
Express View on IMD’s heat wave alert: Act Now
April 3, 2024 07:35 IST
Alert should spur local-level strategies, help create robust data to protect the most vulnerable.
Express View: Don’t politicise Katchatheevu
April 3, 2024 07:30 IST
Resolving these requires engagement with Colombo in calmer times after the polls -- when long-term diplomatic imperatives do not have to compete with short-term electoral compulsions
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SportsUpdated: April 5, 2024 05:27 IST
The Chess Candidates Tournament 2024 Round 1 has begun with 16 top players, including five Indian grandmasters, competing for a chance to face world champions Ding Liren and Li Wenjun. The tournament will be a double round robin with 14 games, but former champion Magnus Carlsen will not be participating. Stay tuned for updates.
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