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Sunday, July 20, 2025

PoV

Covid-19 lockdown is stressful enough. Don’t push yourself to excel in BYJU’S and Duolingo

People are trying new things during the Covid-19 lockdown but it is a problem if they pressure themselves to master those hobbies in these stressful times.

‘Bhaiyya de do please’ — Covid-19 crisis is making urban India go back to kirana stores

Covid-19 lockdown is like a renaissance for neighbourhood kirana stores as the urban Indian is finding them more convenient than malls.

Ravindra Jadeja must stop being a ‘Rajput boy’ and grow up to be a cricketer

The fact that Jadeja’s clip was going viral on the eve of Ambedkar Jayanti shows how far India stands from realising Ambedkar’s dream of a casteless society.

You clapped for them as they picked garbage. Respect them and Ambedkar would clap for you

It took a global pandemic for us to acknowledge the work of sanitation workers. Mere claps for them won’t ease their socio-economic troubles.

It took a pandemic to make millennials save money. Hope Nirmala Sitharaman doesn’t blame us

At the start of Covid-19 pandemic, millennials were criticised for crowding bars, holding corona house parties or sensing an opportunity for cheap vacations. Not anymore.

India-Pakistan candle vigils at Wagah have now moved to Instagram in coronavirus lockdown

While tension continues on the LOC, Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s Instagram lives with Indian celebrities has opened a new gateway for post-Partition nostalgia.

Spit wide open. Covid-19 is a good excuse for Indians to kick the nasty habit

Due to the Covid-19 scare, a man was arrested in Kashmir for public spitting while two others from Bihar were arrested in Mohali for spitting on notes.

Lakshman rekha between covidiot and coronapocalypse. Pandemic brings a new language in town

Coronavirus lockdown is changing people's lexicon — one strange word at a time.

Tiger King on Netflix is outrageous, but more weird is Indians following it

Tiger King is so alien to the Indian ways of life that it perhaps ends up comforting us at a time when the reality isn’t that inspiring, especially in lockdown.

Covid lockdown shows Indian police isn’t all brutal. Some officers can sing for us, feed poor

India’s police officers are more feared and hardly trusted by common citizens. But coronavirus lockdown has brought out a less seen, compassionate side of them.

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.