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Why Maradona was better than Messi and Ronaldo

Messi, Ronaldo have been exceptionally fortunate with their club teams — brilliant players surrounded by other brilliant players. But Maradona made magic out of mediocre materials.

TV channels spent the week teaching viewers how to wear a mask and what ‘love-jihad’ is

Anchors on NDTV India, NDTV 24x7 and India Today, like Rajdeep Sardesai, were distinctly uncomfortable with the UP government’s move.

Trump and his team will leave lot of booby traps for Biden

Even if he’s off sulking, Trump has ample opportunity over the next two months to abuse his powers or throw sand in the federal machinery Biden will inherit.

Ahmed Patel’s death is the biggest political event of 2020

Sonia Gandhi’s lieutenant is no more, paving way for a new Congress system to emerge.

Biden’s Homeland Security pick won’t embrace open borders

Joe Biden probably will reverse many of Donald Trump’s initiatives on immigration, but his policy is unlikely to swing in a direction radically opposite to the one under Trump.

Segregation in rural Karnataka greater than local Black-White division in US south: Study

Researchers mapped residents from over 26,000 villages to find that nearly 70 years on, little has changed in caste-religion-based spatial organisation in rural Karnataka.

How China is trying to protect both consumers and economic stability

China's focus on consumers is understandable as any percentage of some 1.4 billion people who feel poorer or have lost money can undermine social stability, priortised by the govt.

India’s RCEP exit & lure of protectionism versus creative destruction of capitalism

In episode 625 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta talks about what RCEP is and why India chose to stay out of it.

Why India needs to modernise its copyright laws for the digital era

The Covid-19 pandemic has made the shift to digital an imperative, and has rekindled numerous debates on copyright on the internet.

UP doesn’t need a new anti-conversion law. But India needs a stronger Special Marriage Act

Yogi Adityanath’s anti-‘love jihad’ ordinance can deprive women of their agency. Ambedkar had always warned against that.

On Camera

Germany is trying to de-risk from China but Olaf Scholz can’t take hawkish approach just yet

It will be interesting to see which side actually de-risks more from the other at what cost and how it impacts geopolitics, particularly China’s backing of Russia.

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

Agniveer applicants in Army up nearly 10% compared to last year

This year, the Army has scheduled an online combined examination that will span 174 locations across the country. The examination window is from April 22 to May 7.

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.