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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli attempts to catch the ball during IPL 2020 cricket match against Kings XI Punjab, at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (PTI Photo)

Sunil Gavaskar's comment on Virat Kohli's dropped catches rocks social...

Reacting to what she termed a "distasteful message" by Gavaskar, Sharma sought an explanation from the former India...

25 Sept 2020 3:42 PM IST

Azadi by Arundhati Roy

Top Ten Books This Week

The ten best-selling books in fiction and non-fiction this week

25 Sept 2020 2:54 PM IST

The distress of migrant workers, gut-wrenchingly captured by this photograph of a child trying to wake its dead mother at a railway station in Bihar, surpassed even the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic itself.

AA Edit | Here's why this government is data shy

If a regime does not bother to gather data, it is careless. If that is willful, it is callous

25 Sept 2020 2:08 PM IST

File pic of SP Balasubrahmanyam

SP Balasubrahmanyam, the voice of Salman Khan's best songs no more

The news of SPB's death has left millions of his fans devastated

25 Sept 2020 1:51 PM IST

A member of the Communist Party of India protests against the governments new legislations. (AFP)

AA Edit | New labour codes show government's disdain for workers

Every trade union, including the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, has opposed the anti-labour provisions

25 Sept 2020 12:59 PM IST

A farmer wearing a face mask listens to a speaker during an anti-government protest in Bengaluru. (AP)

DC Edit | Stop lying that India's Covid response has not been a...

The death of a minister must force the government to do a rethink on its Covid-19 response

25 Sept 2020 2:55 AM IST

After dropping two catches, RCB skipper Virat Kohli, undoubtedly one of the best when it comes to run-chasing, failed with the bat, managing just a run off five balls before he was caught off a Sheldon Cottrell delivery. (Photo | PTI)

Virat Kohli has a dog day afternoon, with two dropped catches, weak...

His team not only lost, Kohli himself dropped two crucial catches off Rahul's bat following which the Punjab captain...

25 Sept 2020 1:36 AM IST

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah speaks to the media at Parliament House in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (PTI)

AA Edit | The reality in Kashmir is exactly as Dr Abdullah says it is

There is no stabilising centre left in the Valley now, thanks to communal fanaticism being propagated

25 Sept 2020 12:47 AM IST

KXIP skipper KL Rahuls 132, off just 69 deliveries, is the highest score built up by an Indian player in an IPL innings. (Photo | PTI)

Beating Sachin's 'fastest 2,000 IPL runs' Rahul also scores highest...

Breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record of being the fastest Indian to score 2,000 IPL runs in 63 innings, Rahul achieved the...

25 Sept 2020 12:45 AM IST

Chinese authorities have not indicated whether they will agree to a transfer of TikToks technology to Oracle. But official newspapers criticised the proposed deal this week as bullying and extortion.

ByteDance applies for Chinese licence to sell TikTok stake to Oracle

Beijing tightened control over technology exports last month to gain leverage over Washington's bid to force a sale of...

25 Sept 2020 12:03 AM IST

TikToks petition speculated that the president was retaliating because of reports the app was used by his critics to snatch up tickets to a Trump rally in Tulsa to which they had no intention of goingan event which belly flopped with significantly fewer people in attendance.

Trump's order banning TikTok could be blocked by judge

Until July 1, when rumours of a ban first began to circulate, TikTok was adding some 424,000 new US users each day.

24 Sept 2020 11:31 PM IST

The app relies on software developed by US technology giants Apple and Google, and in a bid to assuage privacy concerns, holds all the data generated on peoples phones and allows the information to be deleted easily. (Photo | AFP)

Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after...

The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently...

24 Sept 2020 10:41 PM IST