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Sunday, July 20, 2025

PoV

Beauty and parlour didis were meant to be recession proof. Covid is breaking all the rules

Whether it’s calling Urban Clap or visiting neighbourhood salons, personal grooming will have to sit out this climate of pandemic-induced paranoia.

Saloni Gaur’s Nazma Aapi isn’t Islamophobic. We need better terms for things we don’t like

Comedian Saloni Gaur was criticised as Islamophobic after her latest Nazma Aapi video on Sonia Gandhi and the Arnab Goswami attack.

Hair rebellion — from Kautilya, Omar Abdullah to people in Covid lockdown

To deal with boredom, anxiety and restlessness during the Covid-19 lockdown, people are giving themselves drastic haircuts.

Indian educational institutes should break norms in Covid times, not conduct online exams

Universities like to constantly evaluate students but during the Covid crisis, they can be a little empathetic and cancel exams.

Family WhatsApp groups in Covid times are more about maida, not Modi

Earlier, political views were shared on family WhatsApp groups, but during the Covid-19 crisis, people are sharing household tips.

BJP wants us to see Indian Sonia Gandhi as Italian but Canadian Akshay Kumar as Indian

Arnab Goswami's obsession with Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Italian roots is not his alone. His supporters and many BJP leaders also can't see an Indian in her.

Class of 2020 is the unluckiest. Covid brings awkward adulting with no farewell, no jobs

For teenagers entering adulthood, end of college is always a transition period filled with mixed emotions. Covid has denied them the chance to feel all this.

Djokovic right to be anti-vaxxer. Federer or Kohli didn’t just wake up one day as champions

An athlete's career isn't just all performance. One wrong move can end a career. Novak Djokovic is well within his right to oppose mandatory Covid-19 vaccine intake.

BJP’s Tejasvi Surya is one more man who doesn’t understand the ‘orgasm gap’

The tweet by BJP MP assumes that only Arab women don’t experience orgasm while not acknowledging that women in India also rarely receive sexual pleasure

Journalists must not resist Covid test. Let’s not become the story ourselves

Journalists may have protective gear, but social distancing is an impossibility — whether we are reporting from hospitals or hostels or shelters.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.