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Coal power plants need an integrated approach

Updated on Dec 04, 2020 05:50 pm IST

Energy ministries highlighted why coal-based thermal power plants are necessary for India to continue growing. (HT File Photo)

Corporate-owned banks pose a risk

RBI must justify its decision with unequivocal logic before it embarks upon this enterprise. Otherwise, it will not only compromise its own dignity, but will also be charged with being a dependent banking regulator(HT Archives)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 08:36 pm IST

In higher education, it is time to prioritise Indian languages

The ministry of education will work to develop an equitable system based on the principles of fairness and inclusion(Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 08:34 pm IST

Strive for a sustainable ocean economy

The most effective way of stopping ocean pollution is to tackle pollution on land. Shifting to a circular economy will yield enormous benefits(Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 08:33 pm IST

On farm laws, how the Centre faltered

Farmers sitting at Singhu Border to protest the Centre's farm reform laws, New Delhi, December 1, 2020(Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 01:06 pm IST

Don’t create a world of immunity haves and have-nots

Covid-19 has exacerbated inequities. People who have had the most capital have had access to better health care at a time when most public utilities have been overwhelmed. People in white collar jobs have been able to quarantine, isolate and earn while working from home, while others have lost pay and employment as their workplaces shut(AP)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 01:09 pm IST

Stewards, not bystanders: Civil society creates new opportunity to co-design cities

All over India, there are efforts inviting citizens to re-imagine belonging. To make the city their own.(HTPHOTO)

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 12:26 pm IST

What the Indian markets don’t tell you | Analysis

Excesses of financialisation and financial markets are a real threat to social stability and harmony, not just in India but elsewhere too(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 30, 2020 11:49 pm IST

Where India and China differ in the Indian Ocean region

India’s development cooperation has been a consolidated effort over several decades, across four key verticals(PTI)

Updated on Nov 30, 2020 11:25 pm IST

From India’s wars, five lessons for the present

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s decision not to allow Indian forces to cross the Line of Control during the Kargil conflict was another example of political clarity that led to the occupation of a high ground by India that demonstrated that it could balance the application of force with restraint(HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 30, 2020 11:25 pm IST

In memory of Frontier Gandhi, a plea for justice for Faisal Khan

I know Faisal Khan and have seen his selflessness, his tirelessness, and his passion for friendship and reconciliation(Mint Archive)

Updated on Nov 30, 2020 07:00 am IST

Banking: A buy-operate-dilute model

Depending on how much autonomy the State maintains from capital, it can command dilution of corporate stakes at a suitable time(HT Archives)

Updated on Nov 29, 2020 10:08 pm IST

Modi: The creation of a 100-year movement

Hindu nationalists are comfortable with free and fair elections. It is a comfort made cosier by the fact that traditional Hinduism does not provide for a ‘Hindu State’ that can replace democracy. The Hindu State is an elected one.(PTI)

Updated on Nov 28, 2020 10:27 pm IST

The farm logjam isn’t intractable. Resolve it

Farmers fear the reforms would make them vulnerable to exploitation by corporations and pave the way for the government to stop buying staples at MSPs(Bharat Bhushan / Hindustan Times)

Published on Nov 28, 2020 10:24 pm IST

On liberty, ensure equal and speedy justice to all

In 1989, in the Ayya Alias Ayub v. State of UP case, SC had recognised that liberty being precious, matters seeking bail or(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 27, 2020 08:42 pm IST

Banks: Governance, not ownership, is key

Corporate-promoted banks won’t be able lend to themselves, but there is a risk of concentration of economic power(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 26, 2020 08:03 pm IST

Charting a reformed future for the police

The police should be declared a professional organisation where the CEO, here, the director-general of police, has unfettered right over transfers of his field commanders and is held accountable for his actions(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 26, 2020 08:03 pm IST

India must engage with Taiwan, and not just because of China | Opinion

The objective of this deepening engagement is not to field ties with Taiwan as a countermeasure to growing animosity with China, but to de-hyphenate India-Taiwan ties from India-China relations(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 26, 2020 09:55 pm IST

A breakthrough in banking reforms

The IWG report comes not a day late. The report goes a long way in addressing lacunae built up over the years and will advance India’s journey to a $5 trillion economy by reigniting the banking sector. RBI should move quickly to act on these recommendations.(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 25, 2020 07:57 pm IST

How India can benefit from SCO

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 20th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, via video conferencing, New Delhi, November 10, 2020(PTI)

Updated on Nov 25, 2020 07:57 pm IST

Redesigning urban spaces for women

To make cities women-empowering, we need more imagination and will.(DIWAKAR PRASAD/HTPHOTO)

Updated on Nov 25, 2020 07:57 pm IST

Becoming a court of all citizens

A pandemic of rights having broken out, the constitutional courts cannot by proviso, take away an expectation of basic fairness(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Published on Nov 24, 2020 07:50 pm IST

When China wanted to make peace with India

Zhou Enlai’s Delhi visit was an outcome of Beijing’s policy to defuse tensions and arrest a worsening of its geopolitical environment.(HTPHOTO)

Updated on Nov 24, 2020 11:46 pm IST

Tarun Gogoi: The man who brought peace and growth to Assam

As a grassroots politician and one who also worked at the policy level, Gogoi knew that the region and India gained from Assam’s stability. His state, the biggest in the Northeast, was the pivot for peace and growth. In his view, the two were inseparable(PTI)

Published on Nov 24, 2020 07:29 pm IST

The ball is in China’s court, writes Harsh V Pant

China’s rise and its attendant consequences was the central determinant of Indian foreign policy even before the border crisis of this year.(AFP)

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 07:53 pm IST

Joe Biden’s win is good for India-US ties, writes Frank F Islam

Under the Biden presidency, the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement — which took effect on November 4, the day after the elections — and a series of other international accords and treaties, and rebuild the bridge with its NATO partners. India will benefit from the US once again taking an active role internationally.(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 06:56 pm IST

In Nepal, how domestic politics is colliding with geopolitics

Last month, Nepal’s Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli’s government quietly issued a circular to its administration to replace ‘Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal’ with ‘Nepal’ in its documents. Many saw it as a matter of practicality.(AFP)

Published on Nov 23, 2020 05:44 pm IST

RCEP reinforces China’s edge in Asia

A policy announcement made by Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month suggests that the opening of its market to RCEP members is part of its larger strategy(AP)

Published on Nov 22, 2020 11:40 pm IST

RCEP is a China club, best India stays out of it

To deepen economic ties in the Indo-Pacific region and with RCEP members, India must become self-reliant(Mohd Zakir/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 10:07 am IST

When citizens act against their interest | Opinion

Unless Covid-19 is experienced up close and personal, the threat of the disease is negated, which is detrimental for the mass adoption of preventive health behaviour(Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 06:22 am IST

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