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    Shadow over Bengal polls

    editorials
    Published on Apr 23, 2026 19:34 IST
    ECI has shepherded India’s electoral system through promise and peril over the past seven decades, nurturing it to become the world’s largest democracy. It is a shame, therefore, that a roll purification exercise has rendered real voters disenfranchised. (PTI)

    The political churn in Dravidian heartland

    Tamil Nadu politics, though largely a DMK-AIADMK duopoly, has been unravelling in the past few years. (ANI)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 22, 2026 15:20 IST

    Making health care affordable

    Those unable to access health care without either eroding savings or incurring crushing debt may avoid necessary interventions, imposing heavy costs on the economy in terms of disease burden. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 22, 2026 15:19 IST

    Leaving behind Pahalgam scars

    A year after the gruesome incident, the picture is revealing. Tourists have returned to J&K, though they have yet to match the pre-Pahalgam number, and most sites in the Kashmir Valley have reopened for visitors. Security protocols have been revamped to assure visitors of safety and build trust in the state apparatus. (ANI)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 21, 2026 15:15 IST

    In Bengal, ECI’s absurd theatre over motorbikes

    The bizarre order apparently emanates from Bengal’s culture of bike rallies that are often used as tools to project political dominance before voting day. (ANI)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 21, 2026 15:15 IST

    Building trust, saving trade

    The world is currently negotiating its largest-ever energy shock thanks to a war that was started by the US. The least the US can do for its trading partners is not make things even worse. (AP)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 15:07 IST

    Onus of road safety lies with the State

    Road accidents in the country have several triggers, but some of these show up too routinely in the assessment of causes. (Sakib Ali/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 15:07 IST

    Insurance to sail over energy crisis

    Till India expands its own shipping fleet significantly in the medium- to long-term, this will largely be a mitigating measure rather than a policy targetted at delinking India’s maritime trade from the global shipping industry (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 17:03 IST

    Fraying of the federal pact

    The DMK has introduced a private member’s bill on women’s reservation, and the Congress and others have indicated they will back the move. A government, which rightly claims to have put women leaders in senior executive and constitutional positions, should consider how such a move could transform Parliament (ANI)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 17:03 IST

    Divided House, defeated bill

    Parliament froze the delimitation exercise in 1976 and 2001, amid fears among southern states that the polity would become lopsided in favour of the northern states. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 17, 2026 17:08 IST

    In Vaishali, making of a new chess superstar

    By winning the Candidates and becoming only the second Indian after Humpy to challenge for the classical chess world crown, Vaishali is now ready to write her own legend. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 16, 2026 15:38 IST

    Weaponising energy supplies

    Thanks to its self-sufficiency in fossil fuels, the US is immune to the supply shock component of the energy crisis currently playing out in the world. Of course, consumers there will have to pay higher prices as well. (AP)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 16, 2026 15:38 IST

    Iran shadow over US-Europe relations

    Rome was one of the few friends Washington could count on. But the recent wars in West Asia have forced Meloni to recalibrate ties with the US-Israel bloc. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 15, 2026 15:17 IST

    High on seats, low on trust

    The legislative push to fast-track the reservation for women in legislatures involves a Constitutional amendment bill raising the cap on seats in the Lok Sabha to 850 (from the current 550), and a bill on the creation and mandate of the next delimitation commission. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 15, 2026 15:17 IST

    Step on the gas on coal gasification

    India has the fourth-largest coal reserve in the world; it is indefensible if technological failure and administrative lethargy further delay the gasification programme. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 14, 2026 15:40 IST

    Bihar’s moment of transition

    What should one expect from the change of guard in the state? Regarding governance and political and economic matters, one should largely expect the status quo. (Santosh Kumar/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 14, 2026 15:39 IST

    The message in Viktor Orban’s defeat

    Irrespective of whether Orban’s loss proves a bellwether for far-Right politics and authoritarians elsewhere, what is clear is that there is an end of the road for right-wing populism — just as there is for other variants of populism. (Bloomberg)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 13, 2026 15:19 IST

    Babasaheb in our times

    A spectacle of symbolism, centred around empty eulogisation of Ambedkar, is standing in for a more radical, emancipatory vision of politics. (Santosh Kumar/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 13, 2026 15:19 IST

    The unresolved issues in Justice Varma case

    Varma was facing removal proceedings following a Lok Sabha motion admitted in August 2025, with a three-member inquiry committee constituted by Speaker Om Birla to probe the charges. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 12, 2026 16:38 IST

    The window to negotiate peace

    The US decision to send Vance to Islamabad for the talks too was a signal it is taking the process seriously. The talks have left open a window for forward movement. (AFP)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 12, 2026 16:38 IST

    Who moderates the moderators?

    The question of who holds social media — platforms and users — accountable cannot be answered by either the government or the platforms, because both are parties to the dispute. (AP)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 10, 2026 15:50 IST

    Monetary policy in a time of war

    What is needed is a nimble policy response where the monetary and fiscal arms are in sync. It isn’t business as usual for the economy. It shouldn’t be for RBI. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 9, 2026 15:54 IST

    Respect the red lines

    Caught in a confrontation between the state government and ECI, these people voted in the previous polls and have simply run out of time for the authorities to process their appeals. (PTI)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 9, 2026 15:54 IST

    Drawing a distinction between religion and law

    The 2018 judgment was significant because it drew clear boundaries around a private act that had been criminalised owing to an overhang of colonial morality from the Victorian era. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 8, 2026 16:07 IST

    Learnings from war in West Asia

    For the US (and the world), the war is a lesson that a confrontation using conventional (but modern) weapons, with a reasonably strong opponent is unlikely to end quickly, if it is likely to end at all. (Bloomberg)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 8, 2026 16:07 IST

    Missing women in the candidates’ lists

    The candidates’ lists of major political parties in the four states and one Union territory going to the polls this month show that none of the main parties in the fray — the BJP, Congress, Trinamool Congress, DMK, AIADMK, CPM, CPI, and Muslim League, among others — meet the 33% quota, or even 20%. (@NainarBJP X/ANI)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 7, 2026 15:42 IST

    A flawed SIR in West Bengal

    In terms of deletions (expressed as a proportion of the number of people on the rolls pre-SIR), West Bengal figured in the middle of the pack among states where the exercise was carried out. (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 7, 2026 15:41 IST

    War worries over industry

    The war’s supply shock seems to have triggered a reverse migration of Indian workers, though not at the pandemic scale. Most anecdotal accounts suggest that this is happening because the working-class migrant cohort cannot source LPG for their kitchens. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 6, 2026 17:07 IST

    Who makes it to the candidate list in Tamil Nadu

    Though the Dravidian parties have turned transactional in their practice, they continue to see Periyar as their guiding light. (@mkstalin X/PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Apr 6, 2026 16:55 IST

    War worries over industry

    The war’s supply shock seems to have triggered a reverse migration of Indian workers, though not at the pandemic scale. Most anecdotal accounts suggest that this is happening because the working-class migrant cohort cannot source LPG for their kitchens. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Updated on Apr 6, 2026 16:44 IST
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