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THE REVIVAL MINISTRY

The newly minted cooperatives portfolio can help the BJP redraw political and economic equations

REJIG FOR REJUVENATION

Modi’s cabinet reshuffle shows that he wants to win back voters' trust by focusing on the delivery of his promises

Solid start

Stalin has set lofty goals for his government. Its success will depend on how he deals with the challenges

DOORS OPEN FOR DREAMERS

With ISRO opening up its facilities to private firms, Indian space entrepreneurs are now dreaming of reaching new heights

The Italian job

Roberto Mancini’s Euro 2020 heist involved a dangerous gamble to shake up Italian football

PACKING A PUNCH

The music and the making of Farhan Akhtar’s new sports drama

Normalise the male tears

I am not sure where the tradition comes from, but tears after failure have been de rigueur and socially sanctioned in sport since at least the Iliad, when Greek warrior Diomedes unabashedly wept over losing a chariot race.

COMBINED EFFORT

Mansukh Mandaviya has his task cut out—vaccinating India and deftly managing the two ministries he heads

Process Of Finding Yediyurappa's Successor Has Probably Begun

B.Y. Vijayendra, vice president, Karnataka BJP

Infra-led growth is a force multiplier

T.V. Narendran, CEO & MD, Tata Steel & president, CII

THE SISTER SPEAKS

V.K. Sasikala has had a ringside view of Tamil Nadu politics, thanks to her decades-long friendship with former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa. As she steps out of the shadows to dive into active politics, she remembers her friend, sister and guide

Paddlers' progress

With four Indians in the fray, this might be the country’s best chance at a table tennis medal at the Olympics, especially in mixed doubles

Candid notes

Kaushik Basu’s book is a fascinating journey into the heart of the ‘babu Dilli’

THE HIDDEN EYE

Raihan Rajiv Vadra’s photographs in his latest solo exhibition offer a deeply personal view into his life

Return game

Palaniswami and Panneerselvam have joined hands to thwart Sasikala, but there is no guarantee that the truce will hold

WARNING SHOTS

Central agencies target key members of the ruling alliance in Maharashtra in what is seen as a political message to anti-BJP forces

VIAL OF LIFE

A Hyderabad couple’s journey to get the world’s costliest medicine for their three-year-old son

WE WILL TURN EVERY CONGRESS WORKER INTO A PRASHANT KISHOR

A. Revanth Reddy, Congress president in Telangana

Stop Gaslighting Us, GoI

Am I mad?’ A friend asked me recently. ‘I was on the road, my mother was gasping for breath, we drove in a rented ambulance from hospital to hospital, and there was no oxygen to be had for love or money or influence. It was a complete nightmare.

What Exactly Happened In Wuhan?

In this exclusive article, celebrated virus origin hunter @TheSeeker268 exposes genetic experiments in Wuhan with American support

Roar, Masurkar, roar

DETOUR

Greek gifts

Delta Plus may not harm too much; now Lambda is on the way

The world's foremost virus origins hunter

@TheSeeker268/Pivotal member of DRASTIC group

Cheetah, kangaroo, horse, GOAT!

SOUND BITE

The importance of Infosys

THE INDIAN IT industry took off in the early 1990s. Before that, it was just a tiny industry with TCS being the Big Daddy, Infosys representing the future aspirations and Wipro being the challenger.

Guarding our libraries

LAST WORD

Tamil Nadu is not a freebie state

P.T.R. Palanivel Thiagarajan, finance minister, Tamil Nadu

We can control the next wave

SAMIRAN PANDA/ head of epidemiology and communicable diseases, ICMR

Check Heart Condition With Thumb-Palm Test

A simple thumb-palm test can be used to identify people who are at a higher risk of having a hidden ascending aortic aneurysm, which could be fatal.

Do Sleep Medicines Work?

Nearly 40 per cent of people who start taking sleep medications continue to take them for years.