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Topic: IPL 2020

Virtual to cardboard audiences, DIY training — 2020 pushed athletes to keep sports alive

Covid-19 actually reminded sports fans what to expect from their favourite athletes — to adapt to adverse situations and use them to your favour.

Google analysed billions of search requests in 2020. Here’s what it found

Google’s Year in Search 2020 provides a snapshot of the fears, anxieties, distractions, and obsessions of an extraordinary year.

Hardik Pandya takes a knee during IPL match to support ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement

Mumbai Indians all-rounder Hardik Pandya went down on a knee with his right arm raised to show solidarity with the movement against racism.

Manipur welcomes its Akhoipuina — ‘messengers of God, harbingers of good harvest’

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Gujarat teenager held for issuing threats against Dhoni’s daughter

Police said the Class 12 student 'confessed' to have posted the threatening message on Instagram after the IPL match between KKR and CSK.

#BoycottGavaskar trends after legend’s ‘distasteful’ remark on Anushka for Virat’s poor form

Referring to a viral video from the lockdown, Gavaskar said playing wife Anushka Sharma’s bowling hadn’t prepared Virat Kohli for the IPL.

TRP trap of television news, and some IPL relief to ease Covid anxiety

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

Paytm back on Google Play Store hours after being pulled down for policy violation

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma tweeted that a UPI cashback offer led to the suspension of the app and asked 'India to decide' if giving cashback is gambling.

Covid pandemic has changed Indian cricket scene, but this is why IPL will survive the slump

Unlike the traditional contests that typically unspooled over days-long clashes, IPL is synonymous with a smash-and-bash short format, called T-20.

Chennai Super Kings to take on defending champions Mumbai Indians in opening match of IPL

The upcoming 53-day edition is by far the longest in the history of the league which was delayed after 13 personnel of the Chennai Super Kings camp tested positive for covid.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.