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Tokyo Olympics 2020- HERO!

A mother and a Harvard graduate threaten Florence Griffith Joyner’s record; Simone Biles tries to cement her place as the greatest gymnast ever; Naomi Osaka returns to action after much controversy. In this Olympics, it is the women who have the spotlight on them. Here are some of the best athletes at Tokyo 2020

MEDIAN MISHAPS

Road dividers, meant to streamline turbulent traffic, do more harm than good for commuters on several occasions

The best bet

NEERAJ CHOPRA, THE REIGNING COMMONWEALTH AND ASIAN GAMES CHAMPION, COULD SCRIPT A NEW CHAPTER IN INDIAN ATHLETICS

The possible dream

THE INDIAN CONTINGENT WILL BE LOOKING TO EQUAL OR BETTER THE SIX-MEDAL HAUL AT LONDON 2012, AND IT HAS A HANDFUL OF CONTENDERS

Forged in the ring

INDIA’S LARGEST BOXING CONTINGENT, TOUGHENED BY THE JOURNEY, IS LOOKING TO MAKE HISTORY

BEARING THE BRUNT

Emergency care has been strained during the pandemic and is banking on evolving protocols

Bout time

WITH FOUR SEEDED WRESTLERS IN ITS SQUAD, IT WOULD BE SURPRISING IF INDIA DRAWS A BLANK IN TOKYO

ALONE AND LONELY

The pandemic has taken its toll on pets and captive animals, too

For the forgotten

In a new book, THE WEEK’s R. Prasannan writes about India’s battles in World War II

Meet The NASA's Desi Women

Sixty years after a team of coloured women helped America put a man in space, four Indian-origin women at NASA talk about what has changed

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Ashwini Vaishnaw’s experience as bureaucrat, entrepreneur and politician will come in handy in managing the big portfolios

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.