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VIVO won't be IPL title sponsors this year, says BCCI

The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday confirmed they have suspended the IPL title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile giant VIVO for this year's Indian Premier League amid widespread anti-China sentiment in India.

'Monetisation of assets has come 75 years too late'

'When the government wants to sell these assets, even if one set of assets gets caught in any quagmire, the whole process will fail.' 'The entire world is watching us.'

Mr Modi, please listen to Dr John

'What the government should do is to use the vaccine judiciously, not just to prevent a third wave alone, but to stop the number of deaths happening in the interim.'

'BJP has to keep people intoxicated with hate'

'Just keep telling people that we have fixed the Muslims, and they will not be bothered about their empty stomachs or empty wallets.'

'Climate change is used as an excuse for calamities'

'It is high time that we act instead of just talking about how and why the climate is changing.'

'Pinarayi Vijayan has been the target of the most vicious personal attacks'

'During Amit Shah's recent visit to Kerala, the strategy of concentrating the attacks on the CM on false charges was clear enough.'

'Government is selling people's trust in LIC'

'The entire value of LIC is created by its shareholders because after the initial invest net of Rs 5 crores in 1956, the government has not given any additional capital to the LIC.' 'If the corporation has expanded and emerged as the biggest financial institution in the country, it is only because of the policyholders.'

'If Prabhakaran surrenders, Tamil suffering ends'

Professor P Radhakrishnan, a sociologist from the Madras Institute of Development Studies, draws the difference between the LTTE and the ordinary Tamils of Sri Lanka.

What I learnt from the COVID-19 Crisis

'The virus has been ahead of us till now, and we have been chasing the virus.' 'It is time we have to be a step ahead of the virus, and this is possible only by checking the oxygen level.'

'The talk of me being a 'Super CM' is rubbish'

'I have been dropped all of a sudden and I don't even know what my fault is,' says Shobha Karandlaje, who was dropped from the Karnataka cabinet following the battle between Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and the Reddy brothers from Bellary.

'Kerala will vote for BJP because of me'

'My joining the BJP will definitely result in a landslide migration of votes to the BJP.'

'I can't see an Elon Musk anywhere in India'

'Saying the private industry will come and transform India's space programme is real moonshine!'

'This is the moment to reintroduce wealth tax'

'From March 2020 to November 2021, the combined wealth of the billionaires of this country has doubled.'

Tiruvallur will make them pay the price

Tiruvallur, 30 km away from Chennai, is angry at the DMK and Congress for not bringing down the prices.

An interview with social scientist P Radhakrishnan

'We cannot overlook the crucial importance of cultural capital in intellectual achievements; and virtually all the Nobel Prize winners possessed cultural capital,' says social scientist Dr P Radhakrishnan.

'Caste inclusion in census will be a disaster'

Professor P Radhakrishnan is a social scientist talks about the dangers of including caste in the census.

'Fault lies not with bureaucrats, but with the system'

'The skills and abilities of civil servants are still respected, even though they become whipping boys when things go wrong.'

'As many people must get vaccine free of cost'

''None of the existing vaccines have 100% efficacy.' 'Each vaccine will work openly on a certain percentage of the population.'

'Now that he is CM he will follow the party line'

'Whenever Yogiji said something which was against the party line, we distanced ourselves from that.' 'He will not speak his personal opinion now.'

'There is no disruption of imports from China'

'Industry realises we cannot overly depend on imports from anywhere including China.'

'Government of India should own responsibility of universal vaccination'

'The vaccine policy should be such that all people should get the vaccine free.'

The poster wars of Kerala

Imaginative, innovative and exceptional. The election posters of both the Left Democratic Front and the ruling United Democratic Front are creative and unique in ideas and execution.

'In the case of reservations, there is no exit'

'If you want to know the discontented youth of India, you have to only look at the Maoist, Naxalite movements. The attitude of the State is, crush the movement. I would say 'no' to this. They are our children. I wouldn't equate Naxalism or Maoism in India with terrorism'

'We need to vaccinate at least 70% of the population'

'There is a Covid vaccine-mania that is happening in the world now and the vaccine makers are using this mania for their own gains'

'What they want from us all is total submission, obedience'

'How ironic that a party that seeks to arrogate the mantle of nationalism to itself is actually behaving like the imperial oppressors.'

'Officers seem to be operating in an atmosphere of fear'

'Today, political formations seem to adopt an 'us' versus 'them' approach which shows up even in their attitude towards civil servants.'
'This creates an added layer of fear.'

'We'e a long way to go to make growth inclusive'

Sateesh Andra, co-convenor, Tie-ISB, talks to Shobha Warrier about growth, entrepreneurship and the need to look at new business directions.

'Our healthcare system has collapsed'

'Both the Centre and the states cannot say that they have been taking good care of public health.'

'For Modi, workers and farmers are terrorists'

'The regime -- and particularly the home ministry under Amit Shah -- have sought to suppress and destroy these struggles through intimidation, bullying, threats, through false cases, arrests, custodial torture, the use of draconian laws like the UAPA.'

'Mission Karmayogi is a jumla'

'You just make the bureaucracy honest and make them function with integrity.' 'Everything will be taken care of after that.' 'But this Mission Karmayogi does not even mention these two words -- honesty and integrity.'

'Vested interests want private players in space'

'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'

'Congress is indirectly helping the BJP'

'Every Congressperson is disillusioned in different degrees.'

The 8 women who crashed BJP's boys' club

BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday revamped the party's national executive. Of the 178 members, only eight are women.

'Dalits have not benefited from quotas'

Nenjilirikkum Varai: Love story strikes a cord

The film is good enough to hold your attention.

'We were like ostriches burying their heads in the sand'

'We behaved as if this disease is not a problem for India.' 'We acted as if it would go away. But it didn't go away; it exploded.'

Even bypoll win won't smoothen things for Yediyurappa

'New Delhi is in a perpetual dilemma. It can't do without Yediyurappa, but it doesn't want a powerful CM. It stokes the opponents within against him. The result is he has never settled down in office, even in the present tenure'

'We are in a much, much worse stage than the Emergency'

'During the Emergency, it boiled down to two people: Mrs Gandhi and her younger son.' 'But today, the cancer is spreading all over.'

'Next year, when it appears, we won't even talk about it'

'What is happening now is the virus is trying to survive inside us, and we are also trying to survive.' 'It is actually a fight. And the advantage the virus has is it multiplies very, very fast.' 'Within a second it can make 100 copies. Our cells are not like that.'

'Good chance of substantial recovery in next financial year'

'I am sceptical of the Indian economy returning to a sustained high-growth trajectory any time soon'