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Newsmaker of the Week

With Ambani by his side, Zuckerberg has finally made his Mark in India’s telecom space

Apart from paring its debt, the Facebook deal will help RIL enter India’s e-commerce space by tapping into WhatsApps’ 400 million strong userbase.

Aarogya Setu download rate is faster than Facebook. Can it keep India ahead of Covid curve?

Aarogya Setu is at the centre of Modi govt’s contact tracing efforts to contain the Covid spread. Govt must allay concerns around its privacy provisions.

Boris Johnson out of ICU, but political vacuum and coronavirus won’t let him breathe easy

Boris Johnson government’s slack response on Covid coupled with the prime minister’s own health has left the UK in a constitutional uncertainty.

Between locked down cities and distant homes, migrants lost their way in own country

Modi government’s lockdown to tackle Covid-19 pandemic led to a huge humanitarian crisis, not witnessed by the country in recent memory.

Clapping to slapping — India did everything other than social distancing this week

When PM Modi imposed a lockdown to flatten the coronavirus curve, little did he know how difficult social distancing would be for Indians.

Asha Devi had never seen a police station. Then she forced India to change its rape laws

The mother of 23-year-old paramedic, who was gang raped in 2012, is hopeful that other pending rape cases will be expedited and concluded.

Madhya Pradesh’s edge-of-the-seat politics gave tough competition to coronavirus on headlines

Madhya Pradesh has often bordered on the boring. And yet, this week, Scindia's exit and Congress defections turned it into a thriller.

From Modi to Delhi Police to RBI, everyone told India not to panic. And what did Indians do?

After 3,000 distress calls to Delhi Police over riot rumours and coronavirus scare sending Indians into a tizzy, Yes Bank fiasco rounded off a panic-full week.

Under political pressure or a scapegoat? Where Delhi Police chief Amulya Patnaik went wrong

Though Amulya Patnaik has been known for his 'honesty' and 'sense of judgement', many now see him as a Delhi Police commissioner who failed his force during the riots.

When Trump visits Motera Stadium, the arena will become bigger than the cricket played in it

US President Donald Trump boasted that 10 million people will line up to greet him in Ahmedabad as 22-km roadshow travels from the airport to Motera Stadium.

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.