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Dad, I Still Can't Believe You're Gone: Messi's Heartbreaking Goodbye
Dad, I Still Can't Believe You're Gone: Messi's Heartbreaking Goodbye
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Lionel Messi mourns the man who took him to training as a child, became his agent and stood beside him through football's greatest triumphs. Cristiano Ronaldo reaches across their legendary rivalry wi ...
Bank of America Makes $1.9 Billion India Bet, Buys Up to 49.9% in Jio Credit
2 min read
The ₹18,268-crore deal will turn Jio Financial’s fast-growing lending arm into a joint venture, bringing together Reliance’s digital reach and Bank of America’s global financial firepower
From Jaws to E.T.: Steven Spielberg Gets His MoMA Moment
2 min read
More than 50 years after MoMA helped introduce a young Spielberg to audiences, the museum will honour the filmmaker whose blockbusters proved that art and entertainment could live on the same screen
Meet Thokchom Diamond Singh: 16, Fearless and Taking His First Shot at Senior Football
3 min read
From kicking a ball at four in Manipur to making his senior bow for SC Delhi at the Durand Cup, Thokchom Diamond Singh has spent 12 years climbing Indian football’s youth ladder. Behind the rise are p ...
The alleged ‘lungi’ slur in Rajya Sabha smells like ’60s regional chauvinism
3 min read
Such pejoratives over attire -- Bajao Pungi, Hatao Lungi -- were used in 1960s Bombay by the Shiv Sena of Bal Thackeray to establish its nativist credentials and to project south Indians as enemies
‘I Was Gutted’: Joe Root Bids Goodbye to McCullum, Backs Fleming for England’s Test Reset
2 min read
Brendon McCullum helped Root rediscover his game, making the split deeply personal. Now, after a bruising Ashes and New Zealand series, England’s new Test captain is ready to begin again with Stephen ...
Jeremy Strong Emailed Mark Zuckerberg Before Playing Him. Zuckerberg Replied
3 min read
The Succession star says he didn’t want to condemn one of tech’s most controversial figures in The Social Reckoning. He wanted to understand him, defend his point of view and take the risk of getting ...
Justice Yashwant Varma Cash Row: Parliament Panel Finds All Three Charges Proved
4 min read
Inquiry committee also finds evidence was not preserved and his subsequent explanations were unsatisfactory
Demolish Illegal Structures, Rehabilitate Families Too: Supreme Court Flags ‘Twin Responsibility’
2 min read
The Supreme Court says enforcing the law against illegal structures cannot ignore what happens to families left without shelter, even as it stops short of framing a nationwide rehabilitation policy