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Japan placed its bid for the 2020 Olympics (now being held in 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic) five years after China made its dramatic entry onto the world sporting stage playing host to the Beijing Olympics.

Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

26 July 2021 3:56 AM IST

Clearly, the various bans and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it...

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

26 July 2021 2:56 AM IST

A Pakistan-dependent dispensation in Kabul, especially one that has strong Chinese backing, a prospect made feasible on account of the US departure from Afghanistan on account of war-weariness, will also seek to deny India a physical link to Central Asia. (Twitter)

AA Edit | It's time for straight talk with US on Afghanistan

Even if India does not have a direct border with Afghanistan after Partition, that country lies just beyond our borders

26 July 2021 2:37 AM IST

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 July 2021 2:08 AM IST

So far ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Federal Bank and CSB that have announced their Q1 earnings have seen a spike in retail slippages, particularly from gold loans. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Slippages from gold loans rise for private banks in Q1

There has been a sharp spike in retail slippages, especially from gold loans and the farm segment, as the Covid second...

26 July 2021 12:58 AM IST

In this file photo a man receives a dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. (Photo:AFP)

Many now have immunity against COVID-19

Yet, don't lower guard, say experts; Third Wave likely anytime now

26 July 2021 12:22 AM IST

This photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows rescuers working to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in Chinas southern Guangdong province. (Photo: AFP)

Six detained over fatal tunnel flooding in south China

The construction site of the Shijingshan tunnel, part of Zhuhai's Xingye expressway, flooded on July 15

25 July 2021 3:34 PM IST

NDRF personnel rescue stranded villagers from flooded areas following heavy monsoon rains in Balinge village of Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. (Photo: Twitter/@NDRFHQ)

150 NDRF teams engaged in rescue operations in flood-affected areas...

Other than Maharashtra, 8 NDRF teams have been deployed in Telangana, while 7 teams are working in Karnataka

25 July 2021 3:21 PM IST

WarnerMedia faced significant backlash when it announced earlier this year that its 2021 slate of films would debut under its same-day streaming and theatrical release model. (Photo: AFP)

HBO Max slated to release 10 Warner Bros. titles straight-to-streaming

However, it's not clear which titles these 10 will include

25 July 2021 3:14 PM IST

The Instagram Reels will have the same vertical and full-screen format as regular Reel uploads. (Photo: AP)

Instagram's new sensitivity filter is censoring its users work

While posting on both the feed and in Stories, account holders have been warning their followers that the setting is...

25 July 2021 12:44 PM IST

Awaken India Movement activists protest against the governments mandatory mask-and-vaccine policy and demand an end to the lockdown, at Dadar in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India logs 39,742 new Covid cases, 535 fresh fatalities

The active cases have declined to 4,08,212

25 July 2021 12:38 PM IST

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi. (PTI)

UP Assembly polls: AIMIM denies reports of alliance with SP

The Hyderabad MP had earlier announced that AIMIM will contest 100 seats in Uttar Pradesh polls

25 July 2021 11:21 AM IST