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A Glasgow explainer: Decoding the climate jargon

Updated on Oct 28, 2021 01:51 pm IST

Carbon markets, a mechanism to trade carbon credits, has been defined under Article 6 of the Paris agreement (Kunal Patil / HT Archive)

For the BJP, anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh is an issue in Bengal by-polls

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Hindu Jagran Manch and other Hindu activist groups members protest against the Bangladesh government on the issue of recent temple vandalisations during Durga Puja in Bangladesh at Esplanade in Kolkata, October 19, 2021 (Samir Jana/HT Photo)

Updated on Oct 26, 2021 06:26 pm IST

Climate and us | At COP 26, going beyond the net-zero focus

Carbon markets, which are in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, are touted to be one of the most efficient tools to keep mean global temperature rise under 2 degree C by capping global emissions globally after 2020 (Pratham Gokhale/HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 26, 2021 08:05 am IST

Hutong Cat | The India standoff is now a part of China’s nationalist toolkit

T he failed 13th round of military talks has injected uncertainty into the process of “complete disengagement” as envisaged by New Delhi. (PTI)

Updated on Oct 25, 2021 12:58 pm IST

Mind The Gap | Women leaders of India and the world

Only 268 of 2,839 Congress candidates — just 9.4% — who have contested a state election since 2017 were women (ANI)

Updated on Oct 24, 2021 08:31 pm IST

How Facebook was wrong on India again: An explainer

Facebook’s products and services have been used to spread hate in India (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 24, 2021 08:10 pm IST

A medium-term view of the Chinese and Indian economic situation

China India national flag cloth fabric waving on the sky with beautiful sun light - Image (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 24, 2021 03:46 pm IST

From Kushinagar, PM cemented India’s Buddhist legacy, ties with democratic Asia

PM Narendra Modi at Mahaparinirvana stupa in Kushinagar, along with UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 24, 2021 01:09 pm IST

Can Priyanka Gandhi Vadra revive the Congress in UP?

Two weeks before her press conference, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had soaked in every bit of what is widely seen as the biggest political moment of her 32-month-old career as the Congress general secretary. (PTI)

Updated on Oct 22, 2021 04:16 pm IST

Wastewater: The key to meeting Delhi’s drinking water demand

Despite so many sewage treatment plants [STPs], a large portion of the Yamuna still flows as an untreated sewage canal (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 21, 2021 12:16 pm IST

Will Congress’s 40% reservation in UP be a game changer for women in politics?

Women’s representation in Uttar Pradesh has been on the rise since the early 1990s, from a paltry 2.4% of all MLAs in 1991 to 10.4% in 2017 (AP )

Updated on Oct 20, 2021 12:40 pm IST

Caste and EWS quota: The political calm, the legal storm and what we don’t know

India’s Constitution was amended for the 103rd time to implement EWS quotas. It’s high time we get some clarity about this important move (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 19, 2021 01:35 pm IST

Kerala floods: The impact of the climate crisis on India’s vulnerable ecology

Though an economic estimate of the cumulative economic impact of three flood years — 2018, 2019, and now, 2021 — hasn’t been made, it has been an overwhelming blow to infrastructure and livelihoods (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 19, 2021 04:45 pm IST

Despite Galwan, India’s trade with China has grown. But there is a shift

India’s exports, however, shown an uptick especially in the past year mainly because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focused attention on the Aatmnirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan (Self-reliant India initiative) (PTI)

Updated on Oct 19, 2021 12:17 pm IST

Chhath puja and the centrality of the Purvanchal community in Delhi politics

Chhath puja, a three-day festival, will be celebrated between November 8-10 this year (Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 08:26 pm IST

The implications of the Maharashtra OBC survey on society, economy, and politics

Political reservation for the OBC community only started in 1994, after an amendment to the 1961 Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act to include 27% reservation in local bodies (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 08:16 pm IST

Lakhimpur Kheri: The violence, the aftermath and the politics

On that fateful afternoon, in a bloody and horrific incident, eight people died (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 08:02 pm IST

E-commerce: A tale featuring Amazon, Elizabeth Warren, Indian retail, and GOI

On Senator Warren’s tweet and Reuters’ report, an Amazon spokesperson on Saturday said that the allegations were “incorrect and unsubstantiated” (Aniruddha Chowdhury/ Mint)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 03:30 pm IST

Distantly Close | The frustration and importance of being Nitish Kumar

The dramatis personae, notably Kumar, will need to reinvent themselves to grab, if at all, the opportunity to regroup the Janata Dal (A P Dube/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 03:23 pm IST

Climate and us | On climate and net-zero, the hypocrisy of the developed world

For emerging economies such as India, this will perhaps mean diverting funds from development, infrastructure, and welfare measures and a massive disruption in the energy sector (Kunal Patil / HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 18, 2021 02:56 pm IST

Mind The Gap | The cost of being a modern working woman

India is home to the world’s largest number of single women, but this is not a homogeneous group (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Oct 14, 2021 07:27 pm IST

For UP 2022, inside Akhilesh Yadav’s SP campaign machine

It is Akhilesh Yadav’s party that remains at the forefront of the battle to win power in 2022 (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 13, 2021 01:15 pm IST

The role of ideology in Xi Jinping’s China

There are fundamental changes that are taking place in China under Xi Jinping. (AP)

Updated on Oct 13, 2021 12:13 pm IST

Why the malaria vaccine breakthrough in Africa is historic

These are some of the poorest countries, where the vector for the disease — mosquitoes — are hard to contain due to endemic hygiene issues (AP)

Updated on Oct 12, 2021 06:13 pm IST

A new deal on caste: The battle over reservations in promotions

The Supreme Court is currently hearing a bunch of petitions on the policy of reservation in promotions for SC/STs in government jobs (Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 12, 2021 11:53 am IST

Covid, NEP created a world of blended learning in Delhi’s schools. Will it last?

One of the major hurdles in dealing with blended learning has been student participation – particularly when half the students are studying online and the other half are studying in the classrooms (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 11, 2021 11:40 am IST

In Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand, the politics of tribal identity sharpens

Soon after taking over the reins of power in December 2019, Soren said that in his second term as CM, he wanted to give Jharkhand the direction it needed to fulfil the objectives with which the tribal-dominated state was carved out of Bihar on November 15, 2000. (PTI)

Updated on Oct 11, 2021 11:08 am IST

Why has the BJP not been able to dent Naveen Patnaik’s hegemony in Odisha?

Patnaik’s own image of being a non-corrupt man despite cases of corruption among government officials has also helped the BJD (Arabinda Mahapatra/HT Photo)

Updated on Oct 08, 2021 11:50 am IST

Mind The Gap | From child marriage to MeToo, legitimising oppressive practices

Child marriage is India’s enduring shame and we are home to the largest number of child brides in the world, with 1.5 million girls under 18 married every year, according to Unicef. Representative Image. (Manoj Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 07, 2021 07:16 pm IST

From the colonial era to post-Independence, a history of powerful farm movements

A group of farmers depart for Delhi to participate in the ongoing farmers' protest against new farm laws, Amritsar, Punjab (Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 06, 2021 05:10 pm IST

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