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Regulating social media for children

Updated on Nov 24, 2025 09:29 pm IST

A 2023 survey found almost two out of three Indian children aged 9-17, from urban areas, spend three or more hours on social media. Against such a backdrop, there is perhaps a need for a regulatory architecture. (Shutterstock)

Making India’s judicial language free of prejudices

Job titles often suggest caste functions and carry prejudices rooted in notions of ritual pollution. Renaming them is, thus, a step towards making the judiciary prejudice-free. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 24, 2025 09:29 pm IST

Johannesburg G20 marks a Global South moment

India, South Africa, and other nations in the Global South have made it clear that the age of global hegemons is over (REUTERS)

Published on Nov 23, 2025 08:23 pm IST

The case for the new labour codes

Some Indian states, which have had success with manufacturing, have already rolled out some of the key provisions in the labour codes (PTI)

Updated on Nov 23, 2025 08:22 pm IST

Student suicides in India: Sound mind in a sound body

Schools and colleges must intensify mapping behaviour, risk monitoring, and sensitivity training among teachers and other staff. (AFP)

Published on Nov 21, 2025 08:54 pm IST

A lesson for Indian football via Curacao

Noida, India-October 07, 2025:Football players enjoying football on a rainy day in Barua Football Training Centre at Noida Stadium sector 21A, in Noida, India, on Tuesday ,October 07, 2025. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times) (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 20, 2025 09:02 pm IST

Searching for federal balance in India

By ruling that the governor’s discretion cannot be reduced to a purely “perfunctory” role, the apex court has signalled a very limited role for judicial review in such cases and that too possibly not a decisive role. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 20, 2025 09:02 pm IST

What Bihar needs, what Nitish must do

With the electorate starting to look beyond just caste, Kumar has his task cut out: Bihar’s economy has been growing at a healthy rate (8.64% for FY 24-25) though it remains one of the poorest states in India. (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 19, 2025 09:01 pm IST

Supreme court on ex post facto green clearances: diluting green protection

The majority decision to recall the judgment not only buttresses the acceptability of regularising environmental non-compliance but also undermines the deterrence value of the regulatory regime. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 19, 2025 09:01 pm IST

Why Rajinikanth is THE pan-Indian pop culture icon and one of his kind

Rajinikanth

Updated on Nov 19, 2025 03:17 pm IST

Death of Madvi Hidma: Maoist movement in disarray

The death of Hidma is also significant because he, an Adivasi, was part of a younger generation of leaders groomed to lead the outfit. (CPRF via PTI)

Updated on Nov 18, 2025 08:50 pm IST

Eden Gardens Test: Losing home advantage on doctored pitches

Eden Gardens saw great crowds for its first Test in six years, but the match itself ended within three days. The demand for such pitches, thus, does a disservice to spectators and the game itself. (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 18, 2025 08:50 pm IST

RJD family drama has lessons for all parties

The business of politics is like in any family-run enterprise: Transition in the leadership of a political family can be torturous unless talent, drawn from the ranks, is privileged over blood ties. (PTI)

Published on Nov 17, 2025 09:05 pm IST

Sentencing of Sheikh Hasina and vendetta politics in Bangladesh

In the past, Hasina’s Awami League and its main opponent, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, resorted to similar measures against each other whenever they were in power. (AFP)

Updated on Nov 17, 2025 09:05 pm IST

INDIA bloc should reflect on Stalin’s remarks on Bihar results

The Grand Alliance leadership procrastinated on its chief ministerial face, fought among each other in close to a dozen constituencies, its constituents spoke in different languages, and ran a relatively lacklustre campaign. (HT Photo)

Updated on Nov 16, 2025 09:52 pm IST

Trump’s policy somersaults

Because the US is also the global economic leader, the rest of the world, India included, has no other choice but to live with these flip-flops and show patience and perseverance. (AP)

Published on Nov 16, 2025 09:52 pm IST

Bihar’s trust vote for NDA

Such landslide wins — and Bihar is definitely one — are the result of the winning side picking an issue that resonates with the electorate, or simply doing something for it. (ANI)

Published on Nov 14, 2025 10:50 pm IST

India and the global economy: expect support amid trade headwinds

India must ensure favourable terms in the bilateral trade agreements it is negotiating. (chrisluxonmp X/ANI)

Published on Nov 13, 2025 09:14 pm IST

Trump rethinks H-1B visa stance

Trump’s change of stance is perfectly rational. The US and its blue-collar workforce are right about America’s decline as a manufacturing power, a position which they first ceded to the Japanese, and eventually to the Chinese. (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 09:13 pm IST

Air pollution in Delhi: the haze over AQI data blunts clean-up action

Whether GRAP 3 will lift some of the grey haze blanketing the region remains to be seen. (ANI)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Responding to the Delhi blast

Even as investigative agencies focus on the arms seized from members of the module, the sources of their finances, and the people they were communicating with, they would do well to understand their motivations. (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Pakistan’s constitutional amendment: A Country for the army, Rawalpindi asserts

Unlike some of his predecessors who favoured reconciliation or détente with India, Munir has left little doubt about his anti-India stance. (AFP/ISPR)

Published on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Women in India’s parliament: an underrepresented minority in politics

The Constitution promises political equality, which must expand beyond the right to vote to include opportunity and representation. (HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Assam’s new gun laws: State must not outsource citizens’ protection

The Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh, wherein the State raised village militias to counter the Maoists, led to the militarisation of the region and had to be folded up on the Supreme Court’s orders. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 10, 2025 09:28 pm IST

Climate future needs new NDCs

India and others in the developing world must keep up pressure on rich nations to commit significantly larger funding for climate action, faster. (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 10, 2025 09:27 pm IST

A wake-up call for the chess world champion

Since October 2024, Gukesh gained rating points in just two months. He has lost points in all the other months (PTI)

Updated on Nov 09, 2025 08:33 pm IST

Living with the sanctions regime

As the Russian envoy pointed out, when sanctions are used only to pressure Moscow’s partners, they only spread resentment (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 09, 2025 08:29 pm IST

COP30: A Brics moment at Belém

Early signs are that China, the world’s largest polluter, may step in, with Brazil, the COP30 host, and the EU, to provide leadership. (AFP)

Published on Nov 07, 2025 08:52 pm IST

Why India needs to empower its mayors

The mayor remains mostly a ceremonial figure, an ineffectual office with real authority resting with the bureaucracy. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 06, 2025 08:45 pm IST

Regional vs national in the Northeast

Any party that wants to articulate a common vision for the region will have to reconcile the differences and project a federal and inclusive politics. (@SangmaConrad X/ANI)

Updated on Nov 05, 2025 08:48 pm IST

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