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    Vital changes, but questions remain

    editorials
    Published on Sep 28, 2026 24:50 IST
    The extension of SIR deadlines in Delhi and Maharashtra will bring relief to millions of citizens, trying to convince officials that a typo or a misspelling should not extinguish their identity as voters. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

    US can no longer ignore China’s rise

    If New Delhi is feeling a few jitters over the display of bonhomie in New York, that unease isn’t entirely misplaced. Trump has spent years aligning his personal and political interests with Xi’s. (AP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 26, 2026 24:50 IST

    SIR chaos calls for retooling the system

    Millions of common people will have to forgo other work, spend hours at a facilitation centre or with their booth-level officers, trying to convince the authorities that an extra alphabet in their name or a typo in their date of birth – commonplace errors in India, made by officials while entering data – doesn’t extinguish their identity (Ishant Chauhan/ Hindustan Times)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 25, 2026 12:59 IST

    What the death at IIT-Bombay says

    Data on suicides, especially when weighted for caste, do not confirm a pattern, although anecdotal reports do suggest that students from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes sometimes find it difficult to adjust to an academic environment that is both rigorous as well as heavily skewed towards English-speakers (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 25, 2026 12:56 IST

    FSSAI finally steps up on warning labels

    Only after the apex court pulled up FSSAI in August this year for dithering and warned that it would issue FoPL directions itself did the regulator find its resolve. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 25, 2026 24:56 IST

    Narrow off-ramp for US at UNGA

    This year the ongoing US-Iran war has produced a symbolically significant moment at the United Nations General Assembly. (REUTERS)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 25, 2026 24:50 IST

    ECI needs to course correct

    For seven decades, India’s crowning achievement has been its vibrant and cacophonous democracy, underpinned by free elections and universal adult franchise. That reputation is under a cloud today. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 23, 2026 15:49 IST

    BSP’s exit from the national legislature

    Unfortunately, the BSP has atrophied since Kanshi Ram’s death, and Mayawati’s mercurial functioning has not helped matters. (ANI)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 23, 2026 15:49 IST

    Making accountability key to the arrest process

    The apex court has thus steadily moved from recognising the right to know the grounds of arrest to prescribing consequences for its breach (Hindustan Times)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 14:41 IST

    Tata Sons boardroom battle: Fundamentals of ownership

    If the courts were to endorse the decision of the board of Tata Sons, it would shake the very fundamentals of ownership and management (Bloomberg)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 14:35 IST

    The real win at the Asian Games

    One of the International Olympic Committee’s main requirements is for the hosts to have enough world-class homegrown athletes. Purely in terms of talent and potential, India does. It will now have to back up this with metal. (Sanjeev Verma/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 16:15 IST

    EU gets serious about social media’s dangers

    Most platforms already claim a minimum age close to 13, so the rule will count only if the Commission’s age-verification app, meant to confirm age without revealing identity, works at scale. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 17, 2026 15:25 IST

    Assert autonomy, build capacity

    History is witness to both Democratic and Republican presidents of the US abandoning, even punishing, allies whenever domestic politics needed it. It’s always an “America first” fist, neatly gloved in the claims of rules-based-order. (Shutterstock)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 15:25 IST

    US sparks off a race to weaponise space

    Satellites guide missiles, time bank transactions, route ships and aeroplanes, and track the monsoon, and military planners expect them to be early targets in any war between major powers. More than a dozen countries are building the means to jam, dazzle, seize or destroy them. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 16, 2026 16:10 IST

    Free launches, no free lunches

    The roll-out of MDR in parts of the UPI universe will undo some of the disadvantage these payment platforms had to face to vis-à-vis UPI. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 16, 2026 16:10 IST

    Brace for inflation and rate hikes

    Crude oil prices, thanks to the rapid military advances by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen along the Red Sea coast, have caused a major disruption to Saudi oil supplies. Brent crude, the international benchmark, is already above $100 per barrel. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 15, 2026 15:20 IST

    A growing threat in the Himalayas

    In the long-term, as glaciers shrink rapidly, freshwater sources could dry up for downstream areas. For India, that means water scarcity not just in the mountains and abutting valleys, but also in the plains. (Shutterstock)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 15, 2026 15:20 IST

    Two sides to China’s open AI proposal

    Open-weight AI models matter most for the Global South, whose languages, public services, and research focus are not the commercial priorities of a few Californian firms. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 14, 2026 15:21 IST

    UCC vision needs careful thought

    Union home minister Amit Shah’s declaration that UCC will be enacted in all NDA-ruled states marks the beginning of concerted nationwide efforts to push UCC towards fruition. (Bachchan Kumar/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 14, 2026 15:20 IST

    BRICS uses a unity-in-diversity template

    All eyes were on China’s President Xi Jinping as he visited India after seven years. In both his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his address, Xi belied the perception in some quarters that China merely sees the grouping as a platform for challenging American hegemony. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 13, 2026 16:08 IST

    An alliance for non-alignment

    BRICS itself is a coalition of convenience. While China and Russia see it as a tool to challenge western institutional dominance, for India and Brazil, it is a forum for reforming a rules-based global order. (PMO)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 11, 2026 16:00 IST

    Not criminalising marital rape is hurting women

    The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act of 2013 — it acknowledged that marital rape was a form of abuse, but allowed an exception for sexual relations between a man and his wife, provided she is over the age of 16, and said this would be considered consensual — came about as a result of far-reaching recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee, but key suggestions were not included. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 15:46 IST

    25 years of 9/11

    US military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, ambitiously named the War on Terror, resulted in two decades of turbulence in West Asia. The US emerged more of a global bully than a leader during and in the aftermath of this operation. (Shutterstock)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 10, 2026 15:40 IST

    What aspiring India needs & what it gets

    The demand for student housing that has caused several localities such as Satya Niketan near the DU south campus and Kingsway Camp near north campus, with their densely-packed, regulation-flouting housing, to become preferred addresses for students. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 14:52 IST

    Judiciary must not fear scrutiny

    The Supreme Court itself has repeatedly said that bona fide and constructive criticism can aid institutional self-introspection. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 14:48 IST

    Draconian decrees can’t be the norm

    In warning that some officers who forget their oath to the Constitution risk reducing Uttar Pradesh to “an Orwellian Dystopia”, the Allahabad High Court has underlined a disturbing trend among senior officers to privilege narrow career and political concerns over the demands of the country’s founding document. (Shutterstock)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 16:21 IST

    An invitation to tango on the Moon

    Over the decades, Isro has demonstrated superior technological and operational ability that has, at times, even surpassed Nasa’s. Chandrayaan-3’s remains the world’s only soft landing on the lunar South Pole, a notoriously difficult and, thus, largely unexplored terrain. (PTI)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 16:17 IST

    Preparing for an extreme 2027

    India will have a deficit of more than 10% in monsoon rainfall for the first time since 2015. This will have consequences for agricultural production, reservoir levels, and, in some cases, even drinking water availability. (AP)
    editorials
    Updated on Sep 7, 2026 16:00 IST

    A resurgence of the Right in Germany

    To be sure, this result could be just a temporary protest against Merz’s coalition rather than a bellwether for a socio-political realignment. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 7, 2026 16:00 IST

    Talking peace in the Russia-Ukraine war

    This is the first initiative on the Russia-Ukraine conflict by the US since January, with Trump’s push to end the fighting largely losing momentum as his attention was focused on the war with Iran. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Sep 6, 2026 16:40 IST
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