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Courage, calibre, character: India’s greatest series win

Published on Jan 20, 2021 08:07 pm IST

Their success highlights the depth and strength of talent in the country (PTI)

Managing drug security effectively in times of a pandemic

The Centre ensured the supply of drugs with equitable and integrated access (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 20, 2021 09:19 pm IST

Is ‘Global Britain’ inimical to India?

A new report by Chatham House describes India as UK’s ‘rival’ or ‘at best, an awkward counterpart’ on par with Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It also weighs in against the idea of expanding G7 to include India (Getty Images)

Updated on Jan 20, 2021 09:10 pm IST

Imran Khan gets squeezed between shrinking economy and proactive opposition

Pakistan's opposition parties had united last year under the aegis of Pakistan Democratic Movement to launch coordinated attacks on Prime Minister Imran Khan(AFP)

Updated on Jan 20, 2021 05:48 pm IST

India should be wary of Chinese mind games

There is evidence to indicate that the PLA's work and engineering force deployed to upgrade infrastructure in occupied Aksai Chin moved back after completion of work last month

Updated on Jan 13, 2021 12:31 pm IST

Xi Jinping is preparing for a special birthday party. It has repercussions

President Xi Jinping, unconcerned about China's isolation, is expected to take steps that raise tensions ahead of the 100th anniversary of the communist party

Updated on Jan 10, 2021 02:26 pm IST

What India should, and shouldn’t, do in Nepal

Oli has been emboldened to stick to power even by breaking the party. In the process, the shallowness of Oli’s opportunistic and politically driven anti-Indian nationalism has been exposed(AFP)

Updated on Jan 08, 2021 07:59 pm IST

To secure India’s energy future, create a sovereign wealth fund and invest

India is currently the world’s third largest consumer of oil with growing demand and limited domestic supplies. Import in 2019-20 was 1.6 billion barrels and will increase as its economy expands.(REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:43 pm IST

Devising a vaccine strategy for India

Health workers conduct a dry run of Covid-19 vaccination programme, New Delhi, January 6, 2021(Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:43 pm IST

January 6: A black day for US democracy

The white supremacist disregard for the sanctity of law has been on the increase during the Trump presidency and the contrast with how Washington dealt with peaceful protests by African-Americans in recent months is illustrative of the deep racial fissures that still fester in US society.(AP)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:41 pm IST

Ensure access to justice in a post-Covid world

The shutdown of courts across India provided an opportunity to adapt to digital modes of working(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:20 am IST

The new architecture of a new India

Great cities and societies are not those that unquestioningly preserve everything from the past. They evolve and add new things while retaining the best from the past

Published on Jan 06, 2021 08:23 pm IST

India’s retrospective taxation blunder is still extracting heavy costs

The tribunal reasoned that India’s decision to retroactively apply the law, without a specific justification, created a new tax burden on a transaction that was not taxable at the time it was carried out, ie. in 2006(Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 07, 2021 07:20 am IST

Eliminate State and social interference in matters of conscience

It should be clear that the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion law infantilises Indian citizens, reduces them to the level of subjects, and authorises State intrusion into the most personal of domains, that of individual conscience.(AFP)

Published on Jan 05, 2021 06:52 pm IST

Understanding the rationale of farm protests

Farmers during their protest against the new farm laws, New Delhi, January 3, 2021(PTI)

Updated on Jan 06, 2021 06:13 am IST

The Delhi-Beijing battle in South Asia

By standing up militarily to China on the Himalayan borders, India also made it possible for smaller nations at the receiving end of Chinese aggression to envision the possibility that subservience to China is not the only option(ANI)

Updated on Jan 06, 2021 06:13 am IST

Silicon Valley is in for a rough ride

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, US, October 23, 2019(REUTERS)

Published on Jan 04, 2021 08:21 pm IST

Only a strong social security net can ensure economic growth

Covid-19 has taught all governments many lessons. But the most important one will be this: The strength of our social safety net will determine the heights the Indian economy will scale.(PTI)

Updated on Jan 04, 2021 09:13 pm IST

Will physics un-gender itself in the new decade?

This undated handout photo obtained on October 6, 2020, from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) shows US astronomer and professor Andrea Ghez. Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on October 6, 2020 for their research into black holes(AFP)

Published on Jan 04, 2021 08:18 pm IST

No room for complacency in Covid-19 battle

A health worker takes part in a dry run or a mock drill for Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine delivery, New Delhi, January 2, 2021(Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 04, 2021 11:11 am IST

Key constitutional values invoked last year must be built on

One of the most striking images at the beginning of 2020 was that of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), protesters reading aloud the Preamble to the Constitution.(HTPHOTO)

Updated on Jan 04, 2021 11:09 am IST

Post-Covid-19, cardiac health management is vital

A health worker collects swab samples from passengers for Covid-19 test, New Delhi, January 1, 2020(Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

Published on Jan 02, 2021 07:01 pm IST

Covid-19 highlighted the ‘the tyranny of experts’

Healthcare workers collect swab samples of migrants, Thane. September 10, 2020(Praful Gangurde/ HT Photo)

Published on Jan 01, 2021 08:07 pm IST

The climate crisis needs a vaccine too

If current indications are anything to go by we are witnessing the revival, even intensification of the ecologically-damaging production and consumption patterns which have landed us in this predicament. Carbon emissions are rising once again as economies begin to revive. Environmental safeguards are being relaxed on the plea that industries badly hit by the pandemic cannot bear the burden of such regulation at least for some time.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 01, 2021 06:02 am IST

Pakistan’s relations with India remain stationary; with China it has consolidated; there is an uptick with the US

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, 2018(Getty Images)

Published on Dec 31, 2020 07:51 pm IST

China violates border agreements with India, swears by 2003 pact on Tibet | Analysis

China’s People’s Liberation Army has violated all the agreements to maintain peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control(AP File Photo)

Updated on Dec 31, 2020 01:55 pm IST

Women must be centre-stage in water and sanitation

Several research studies have indicated that girls drop out of schools due to inadequate sanitary facilities being provided especially during their menstruation periods. Facilities need to be provided — and their awkwardness needs to be addressed too.(HTPhoto)

Updated on Dec 31, 2020 05:42 am IST

Mutant strains emphasise the need for strict controls

he State must act fast to enforce indoor lock downs and effective ‘social and physical distancing’ norms through media, social help groups, vigorous public announcements and by applying force, if that becomes necessary.(REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 31, 2020 05:43 am IST

Challenges ahead for the judiciary

Collegiums, having monopolised appointments and transfers, are duty bound to devise a simple flow/time chart to ensure that movement of files at each level is monitored by a designated judge in each court and does not exceed the stipulated time period for each rung of the ladder.(PTI)

Published on Dec 30, 2020 07:44 pm IST

For the BJP, it has been a productive year

It is to the credit of Narendra Modi that he imbibed the lessons of the 1998-2004 experience and sought to inject the party with a new sense of purpose even while wielding power at the Centre.(ANI)

Updated on Dec 29, 2020 05:05 pm IST

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