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Last Laughs: On Kathua silences are broken and gold standards achieved in whataboutery

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

TalkPoint: Has IPL cricket become a target for political activism?

The IPL matches scheduled to be held in Chennai have now been moved to Pune after widespread protests over the Cauvery water distribution. Experts weigh in on the impact of the political activism on cricket.

Last Laughs: Painting it orange in Yogi’s UP and the Chennai IPL shoe-stopper

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

Last Laughs: Karnataka vote bank, Commonwealth games & tale of two Khans in Rajasthan

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

Will Vinod Rai retire for the third time, adhering to Lodha committee’s age cap?

The SC-appointed Lodha panel had recommended that office-bearers in the BCCI should not stay on be beyond the age of 70. Will the CoA chief stick to it?

IPL vs drought — confusing competitive sport with nationalism

Hailing the ban on IPL matches in Maharashtra shows our perverse distrust of sports as a career of dignity and contempt for outdoor, physical culture.

Life, mind and times of Lalit Modi

He refuses to accept the reality that politicians hang together in the BCCI-and they win.

The giant fix

BCCI cannot blame a mere individual nor rely on the old cynical and lazy notion that cash will solve all problems. It has to clean up not just the IPL, but itself.

First slip, then cover-up

The right issue to debate is not whether IPL is responsible for the decline of Indian cricketers’ performance but if its riches so dazzled administrators that it devastated the management of our talent.

Racket before wicket

The Indian cricket team's failure in two successive T20 World Cups has nothing to do with short-ball pitching but rather the timing of the IPL.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.