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Friday, January 30, 2026
TopicIndia-Pakistan match

Topic: India-Pakistan match

‘Greatest rivalry in the world’ tag for India-Pakistan is just hype now

ThePrint view on the most important issues of the week.

Make My Trip ‘discount’ for Pakistani cricket fans is awful—It makes us look small on a big day

The full-page advertisement offers discounts to Pakistani fans for each wicket they lose in the India-Pakistan match.

Bonhomie off the field: What Indian, Pakistani cricketers talk about to defuse hype before games

Captains Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam stated they discuss 'things back home' and talk about families and cars. The camaraderie between the sides was evident at Asia Cup in Dubai.

Kashmiri students have a future too. Their actions deserve sympathy, not UAPA charges

Incidents against Kashmiri students have increased the sense of insecurity and anxiety among them as well as their parents and relatives in Kashmir.

Sorry Shoaib Akhtar, India can’t raise funds with Pakistan for Covid-19. You are the ‘enemy’

Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh were trolled for helping Shahid Afridi because Indians can only see Pakistan as the enemy, even during the Covid-19 crisis.

BJP’s Malviya misses Rahul – ‘here I am’ responds Cong Prez, and Amit Shah’s ‘strike’ against Pakistan

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

India’s World Cup streak against Pakistan, and Mamata’s Bengali diktat

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

India’s public debt stabilising post pandemic hike as Centre cuts burden, but states lag—Economic Survey

While Centre makes progress lowering debt from pandemic peak and cutting borrowing costs, states face slower adjustment with limited market discipline, survey finds.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.