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Roger that
With his fightback at Australia Open, Federer is the first singles player to win 100 matches in two Grand Slams Roger Federer is not just a sporting legend. He is a human story and an inspiration for everybody because he has demonstrated true grit that survival requires in our times, surprising...
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Toxic war of words
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Citizen Mukherjee
25 January 2020 | Pioneer -
Reprieve for Pak
25 January 2020 | Pioneer -
An astronaut’s friend
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A really bad year
24 January 2020 | Pioneer -
Another deadly virus
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Miffed allies
23 January 2020 | Pioneer
Inequality rules
The way to grasp the current political climate is by understanding how inequity has grown over the decades The British charity Oxfam has come out with another annual report at a time when the World Economic Forum (WEF) held at the Swiss resort town of Davos is under way. The report...
Flying kites
The Government may be testing waters with silly proposals. But this points to a lack of creativity in policy-making The bureaucrat, who thought about the preposterous suggestion to limit duty-free alcohol purchases to a single bottle, will one day head the entire department. And that frankly is more worrying than the...
BJP’s new chief
J P Nadda is being considered a proxy for Shah but has organisational strengths of his own. Will he be allowed to rise? When LK Advani was the BJP president and clearly the more “seen” face of a resurgent Right, having steered the Rathyatra and the temple campaign in Ayodhya, he...
No surprises here
Both the BJP and AAP candidate lists play safe with expected names and reward turncoats With the gong being struck for a three-cornered electoral contest in Delhi, the two top contenders — the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — have had a tough task drawing up...
Maximum city, again
Shops, malls and eateries will remain open 24X7 in Mumbai from January 26. Will this rebrand the city? For some time, besieged by infrastructural breakdowns and carrying the weight of history, Mumbai had lost its swanky flavour and standing as the first among metros. Newer cities and the Tier II explosion...
Bezos’ bummer trip
From getting a Gandhi quote wrong to drawing the ire of the BJP, the Amazon CEO’s latest trip didn’t go that well In terms of disastrous visits to India, Amazon’s Chief Executive Jeffery Bezos’s latest trip wasn’t quite up there. No, it will take a lot more to top the stupendous...
Talks with Pakistan?
While UNSC backs India on Kashmir and insists on it being discussed bilaterally, our SCO invite is a smart move Pakistan may have nudged its all-weather friend China into raising the Kashmir dispute at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) yet again — perhaps going by Western concerns about the continued...
