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Post retirement code of conduct

Updated on Jun 05, 2025 08:39 pm IST

The CJI is right in asserting that the timing and nature of many such post-retirement engagements carry the risk of creating the perception that decisions were influenced by the prospect of future appointments or political involvement. (PTI)

The demography lesson from Vietnam

The associated demographic imbalance has been clear for some time, from sex imbalance due to gender preference to sharp divides along rural-urban and educational attainment lines. (AFP)

Published on Jun 05, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Behind a greying farm workforce

Most of the Indian blue-collar workforce has moved from one precarity to another, just slogging to earn incrementally better incomes in cities under abysmal living conditions. (Reuters)

Updated on Jun 03, 2025 07:41 pm IST

Waivers will exacerbate Delhi’s water problems

There are several problems with the waiver proposal, from the moral hazards to its implications on state finances. (ANI)

Published on Jun 03, 2025 07:40 pm IST

The BRS turmoil and parties as Family Inc

The fault mostly lies in leaders perceiving political parties as family inheritances, and not as democratic platforms. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jun 02, 2025 07:34 pm IST

Dhaka’s pivot to revenge politics

The interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus has banned the activities of Awami League under the country’s anti-terror law until the party’s leadership has been tried by the tribunal. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jun 02, 2025 07:28 pm IST

A train of hope, from Kashmir to Maharashtra

Given the tertiary sector of J&K’s economy that contributes almost 60% of its GDP is largely tourism-driven, there is an urgent need to diversify (PTI)

Published on Jun 01, 2025 07:58 pm IST

Projecting the right message

Everyone, including international experts who have pored over detailed satellite imagery, admit that India was the clear winner in the military conflict (AFP)

Updated on Jun 01, 2025 07:57 pm IST

Building on a strong base

The biggest X factor for the economy, however, remains unchanged as far as the past few years are concerned. Will private capex finally gain momentum and emerge as the key driver of a sustained growth revival? (AFP)

Updated on May 30, 2025 11:36 pm IST

B’desh politics heats up, Yunus on the back foot

Yunus’ attempt to pivot Dhaka away from New Delhi and into the orbit of Islamabad and Beijing can only hurt Bangladesh’s economic and political stability. (Bloomberg)

Published on May 29, 2025 08:16 pm IST

Court jolt for US tariffs plan

The most important takeaway is that the constitutional battle over whether or not President Trump alone can decide all things about US policy is still a work in progress. (AFP)

Updated on May 29, 2025 08:15 pm IST

Pushing the reforms agenda in the judiciary

No judge of a constitutional court in independent India has been removed by Parliament and never have members of a ruling dispensation brought a motion to impeach a sitting judge. (ANI)

Published on May 28, 2025 08:43 pm IST

Visa move will hurt America

The larger message here is that America has changed and will henceforth be less tolerant of dissent. (AFP)

Updated on May 28, 2025 08:39 pm IST

AI needs guardrails, not safety theatre

AI development needs the same approach as aviation safety — secure testing environments, constant monitoring, and reliable human controls. And the guardrails must be robust and extensive. (REUTERS)

Updated on May 27, 2025 08:38 pm IST

Living in the Covid shadow

The balance India now strikes —maintaining robust surveillance while avoiding overreaction — is sensible and must trickle down in how we react to the disease. (PTI)

Updated on May 27, 2025 08:38 pm IST

A foot overbridge lost in red tape

the soldiers are forced to take a path straddling a stench-filled drain under a culvert on a busy stretch of the Ring Road (HT Photo)

Published on May 26, 2025 08:10 pm IST

Fast-tracking India, Canada relations

The Canadian side has firmed up an Indo-Pacific strategy that perceives India as a critical partner because of the common commitment of the two countries to a rules-based international system. (AP)

Updated on May 26, 2025 08:09 pm IST

New captain, new zeal, new era

Everything indicates a brave choice by the selectors to step into the future — starting with the choice of Gill, a relative veteran in this team with 32 Tests and an average of around 35 (which is low for a top-order batter)

Published on May 25, 2025 10:35 pm IST

Preparing for the monsoon

The monsoon arriving in Kerala and progressing in the rest of the country are different things, and the latter can deviate from the normal course for a variety of reasons

Updated on May 26, 2025 05:45 am IST

A timely reprimand from Supreme Court

The CJI-led bench pulled up the central agency for initiating coercive search and seizure operations at Tasmac’s headquarters in Chennai between March 6 and 8 (ANI)

Updated on May 23, 2025 07:57 pm IST

The next stage in protecting Asiatic lions

In 2020, Project Lion identified six other protected areas in the country, in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and elsewhere in Gujarat (Zoo officials)

Published on May 22, 2025 07:32 pm IST

Facing the heat in Chhattisgarh

Factors such as the deepening of electoral democracy, improved delivery of public goods and services, better economic prospects, especially since the 1991 economic reforms, and the decline in the appeal of radical Left ideologies since the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s embrace of capitalism, helped in building an environment that convinced many Maoists to leave a politics entirely defined by violence to join the mainstream (PTI)

Updated on May 22, 2025 07:28 pm IST

Restrictions on speech have to be reasonable

Time and again, the top court has rightly lamented how the lower judiciary and prosecutorial agencies need to be more circumspect in using their powers of arrest. But signals emanating from the top influence this behaviour (PTI)

Published on May 21, 2025 08:10 pm IST

World must now build on the pandemic treaty

The US’s refusal to fund WHO — it was the body’s largest historical funder — will mean the watchdog is left with very little teeth unless China or Europe fills the vacuum (REUTERS)

Updated on May 21, 2025 07:27 pm IST

General Munir in Pakistan’s labyrinth

The promotion is an ominous one; it is worth remembering that Pakistan’s last field marshal was the country’s first military dictator and longest-serving head of State (AP)

Updated on May 21, 2025 07:20 pm IST

The churn in global trade

Tinkering at the margins, which is what tariff negotiations in bilateral trade deals represent, will do nothing to address the fundamental asymmetry in global value chains where most of the physical production is carried out by cheap labour in emerging markets even though the bulk of the profits of this work are harvested by companies located in advanced economies (AFP)

Published on May 20, 2025 08:01 pm IST

In Bengaluru flood, a pre-monsoon lesson

This problem is not exclusive to Bengaluru. Most Indian cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad among others — experience floods and waterlogging after seasonal and unseasonal downpours (PTI)

Published on May 20, 2025 07:57 pm IST

President vs SC revives the federalism fault line

The Constitution is silent on timelines for gubernatorial and Presidential action on state bills, though it was not written with the view that Governors and the President would keep state bills pending (Hindustan Times)

Published on May 19, 2025 07:34 pm IST

Urging Pakistan to course correct

It is significant that the IMF report announcing these new conditions has pointedly stated that the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, especially if they deteriorate further or are sustained, could heighten enterprise risks to the fiscal, external and reform goals of the bailout (AFP)

Updated on May 19, 2025 07:23 pm IST

The US economy is generating more anxiety than stability

Trump 2.0’s economic flip-flops have forced everybody to ask existential questions about the longevity of the current US-led economic order (AFP)

Published on May 18, 2025 10:32 pm IST

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