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R Sukumar

R Sukumar

Sukumar Ranganathan is the Editor-in-Chief of Hindustan Times. He is also a comic-book freak and an amateur birder.

Articles by R Sukumar

Budget to benefit common man, US deal big relief to Indian exporters: Sitharaman

The finance minister said two committees formed on administrative reforms in the previous budget had submitted their inputs and that Niti Aayog was working on it.

Updated on Feb 4, 2026 03:27 IST

HT Interview| Exporters now have an edge over rivals: Finance Minister

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Updated on Feb 4, 2026 24:24 IST

'No more sticky issues': Piyush Goyal says India-US talks headed towards closure

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 04:33 IST

R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2025

The Feather Detective by Chris Sweeney (Avid Reader Pr)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 11:51 IST

A time to reckon with the gods of our making: A year-end essay by R Sukumar

(HT Illustration)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 09:28 IST

What's On My Mind: Orders, evidence and dinosaurs

The Supreme Court of India (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 22, 2025 07:22 IST

HT Interview: NDA will get clear majority in Bihar elections, says Rajnath Singh

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh during an interview at his residence in New Delhi. (HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 9, 2025 03:59 IST

Govt focus now on ensuring transmission of rate cuts to consumers: Sitharaman

Increased consumption may well help the government end the financial year with no impact on revenue on account of the rationalisation in GST rates, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. (Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 03:36 IST

Demand spike likely to help meet targets after new GST rates take effect: FM

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (PTI)

Updated on Sep 6, 2025 02:49 IST

Gates Foundation to be remain ‘engaged deeply’ in India: CEO Mark Suzman to HT

Mark Suzman (left), CEO of Gates Foundation, with Bill Gates at the 25th anniversary event of the foundation on Thursday. (Photo from LinkedIn)

Updated on May 9, 2025 06:51 IST

Five years later: R Sukumar looks back on how we fared in and after the pandemic

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 11:49 IST

‘Hopeless’ to ‘incredible’: Sam Altman changes his mind on India’s AI plans

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Ashwini Vaishnaw - X)

Updated on Feb 6, 2025 01:01 IST

India is an incredible market for AI: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Altman said OpenAI tripled its users here in the last year. (Bloomberg photo)

Updated on Feb 5, 2025 11:32 IST

Take it from the top: R Sukumar writes on the Republic @75

(Image created with Adobe Firefly; HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Jan 24, 2025 18:42 IST

‘Got a feeling it’s going to be a good year’: R Sukumar writes on ’25

(Images: Adobe Stock; HT Imaging: Monica Gupta)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 11:12 IST

R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2024

Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare (Canongate Books)

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 10:28 IST

Hindustan Times @100: an inside-out perspective

The constants in newsrooms such as Hindustan Times are editorial independence and the commitment to journalistic principles

Updated on Sep 22, 2024 01:30 IST

‘Malnutrition is vastly ignored... would fix it if I had a magic wand’

Bill Gates. (AFP)

Updated on Sep 17, 2024 08:12 IST

HT interview: Modi going to see you through this stormy period, says Jaishankar

External affairs minister S Jaishankar (Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 17, 2024 03:14 IST

HT interview: We empower citizens, Opp wants to steal their wealth, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the state of the campaign, and the focus of his next government should it return to power.

Updated on May 12, 2024 06:10 IST

HT interview: Economy relevant to elections, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Updated on Apr 20, 2024 04:34 IST

Electoral bonds will be back after consultations: Finance Minister Sitharaman

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)

Updated on Apr 19, 2024 23:10 IST

Playing it forward: R Sukumar interviews jazz legend Herbie Hancock

At the American Center, New Delhi. ‘I was young once, and I made mistakes. But musicians didn’t just put me (down); they showed me how it was done. So now it’s my turn to be the kind of grandfather of the music,’ he says. (HT Photo: Paroma Mukherjee)

Updated on Jan 19, 2024 17:19 IST

R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2023

An original piece of fiction that can be read at multiple levels (Riverhead Books)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 12:13 IST

‘We turned out to be right’: ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers, on betting big on India

(Getty Images)

Updated on Dec 6, 2023 16:13 IST

HT Interview: Our PM believes in democratising technology, says Vaishnaw

New Delhi: Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw during foundation stone laying ceremony for the redevelopment of 508 railway stations, in New Delhi, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)(PTI08_06_2023_000066B) (PTI)

Updated on Aug 13, 2023 24:17 IST

Under Modi, a new caste has emerged in the country, that of beneficiaries: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah dismissed opposition parties coming together to take on the BJP as a photo-op and said that it would have no impact on votes

Updated on May 4, 2023 08:59 IST

India’s big reform push will help Global South

The good news is there appears to be a broad consensus on the need for IMF and the World Bank to expand the scope of their objective PTI

Updated on May 2, 2023 13:31 IST

HT Interview: ‘My worry is …,’ Bill Gates on misinformation

Bill Gates (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 3, 2023 23:26 IST

R Sukumar picks his favourite reads of 2022

From technophilosophy to sensory bubbles (HT Team)

Updated on Dec 30, 2022 11:00 IST

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