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Free trade must also be fair trade

Updated on Apr 28, 2025 08:10 pm IST

Ceding to such demands will amount to a double injustice: India being shortchanged in the ongoing bilateral negotiations where its exporters lose market access for not adhering to what are extremely expensive standards, and the largest block of advanced economies unfairly imposing these conditions on a developing economy (@narendramodi)

The journey ahead in India-China ties

Notwithstanding the importance of the pilgrimage, it’s important to remember that it is but one part of the complex nature of Sino-India ties

Published on Apr 27, 2025 08:12 pm IST

Falling short on credibility

This offer has little credibility because of Pakistan’s past record in cooperating with India in investigating terrorist attacks (via REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 27, 2025 08:09 pm IST

Big Tech gets a reality check from Europe

The Competition Commission of India (CCI), which has opened many investigations, forcing companies such as Google to commit to mending their ways, is on the right path (REUTERS)

Published on Apr 24, 2025 08:16 pm IST

Closing the terror tap after Pahalgam

The suspension of IWT— brokered by the World Bank to divide the six rivers of the Indus Basin between the two countries — may not have the spectacular element of a surgical strike across the Line of Control or International Border but its long-term implications for Pakistan could be far more serious (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 24, 2025 08:10 pm IST

The good news for India in IMF’s outlook

Conciliatory noises by the Trump administration — Trump saying he won’t fire the US federal reserve chairman, and the US treasury secretary saying current tariffs between US and China are unsustainable — in the aftermath of the WEO report suggest that all hope is not lost (Bloomberg)

Updated on Apr 23, 2025 08:22 pm IST

After Pahalgam, the just response

It is widely expected that India will react militarily to the terror strike — targeting, as it did after the Pulwama and Uri attacks, terror pods across the border (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 23, 2025 08:19 pm IST

Street to studio, verse as art commodity

Aziz fears that his political art has been appropriated and commodified in a studio environment, which produces a sanitised aesthetics that is in sharp contrast to the language of protest

Published on Apr 22, 2025 09:15 pm IST

Revival of terror spectre in J&K

The separatist narrative, enabled and sustained by Pakistan, that peace was impossible in Kashmir, was negated by the picture of a resurgent economy and a local population welcoming of tourists. Tuesday’s attackers want to puncture this scenario and push the region back into an abyss of fear and desperation (PTI)

Published on Apr 22, 2025 09:09 pm IST

A pope who spoke for the poor and marginalised

Pope Francis’s election in 2013 was in extraordinary circumstances when Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign from the papal office, a first in 600 years (AP Photo)

Updated on Apr 21, 2025 07:45 pm IST

Resetting Delhi, Dhaka ties

Dhaka’s open welcome to Beijing, while ignoring Indian sensitivities, has not been lost on New Delhi (AFP)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 08:39 pm IST

UK court ruling risks shrinking transgender rights

There is a global pushback against transgender inclusion, evident in not just the roll-back of key protections for such persons in the US but also actively hostile laws enacted by other jurisdictions (AP)

Updated on Apr 17, 2025 08:28 pm IST

Cost of Trump’s many trade wars

This disruption should be seen as a global shock rather than some new zero-sum game to India’s advantage (Bloomberg)

Updated on Apr 17, 2025 08:27 pm IST

New front in the federalism debate

The Justice Joseph committee could also enrich the ongoing conversation on federalism and even help reset the contours of the Centre-state relations, especially regarding the fraught matters of delimitation and revenues (Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)

Published on Apr 16, 2025 07:49 pm IST

Need to hedge against variability of monsoon

Deluge and drought can affect crop yields, cause significant damage in terms of the infrastructure and human toll they extract, and result in serious economic pain, not just for the farming community but beyond

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 07:39 pm IST

Polls in sight, churn in Bihar politics

Paras has spoken fondly about Lalu Prasad suggesting that he may consider joining the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan

Published on Apr 15, 2025 08:49 pm IST

Keep the cash for bad times

If there is a point to quibble over, it is that the Union government is reaping windfall gains by using a special duty. This is not part of the divisible pool, which means it is not shared with states (REUTERS)

Published on Apr 15, 2025 08:45 pm IST

The Waqf disquiet in West Bengal

While the state’s political leadership can disagree with the Act, the CM and her team must ensure social peace (PTI)

Published on Apr 14, 2025 08:26 pm IST

The message from Bengaluru

The Congress’s Karnataka unit is more of a rainbow of castes, interest groups and communities, which can unravel if it pushes hard with the survey (Siddaramaih - X)

Published on Apr 14, 2025 08:03 pm IST

A reshaping of federalism

The court was aware of the historic nature of the judgment and carefully considered the question of judicial overreach (ANI)

Updated on Apr 13, 2025 09:14 pm IST

Towards closure on 26/11 attacks

Justice must be served in Rana’s case, but equally the focus must be on exposing the role of those within Pakistan’s military and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who facilitated the LeT in going ahead with the attacks (AFP)

Updated on Apr 11, 2025 08:48 pm IST

The road ahead for HEI accreditation

The assessment body must consider institutionalising sustained stakeholder feedback to make its system more responsive to the actual demand-base it needs to cater for — the country’s students

Published on Apr 10, 2025 08:15 pm IST

Decoding Trump’s tariff pause

Trump 2.0 has managed to unleash a kind of uncertainty on the global economic order, which will have a crippling effect on long-term economic decisions not just in financial markets but also the real economy (Getty Images via AFP)

Published on Apr 10, 2025 08:10 pm IST

A diminished Iran talks to America

There is good reason for drawing Iran back into nuclear talks — experts believe Tehran could soon have enough weapons-grade uranium to make a nuclear warhead. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY (via REUTERS)

Published on Apr 09, 2025 07:08 pm IST

Rate action with eye on trade war

The only significant tailwind for India at the moment is the global bear market in commodity prices which will not just help control inflation but could also neutralise GDP headwinds to an extent in things such as energy imports as the import component goes down (ANI Grab)

Updated on Apr 09, 2025 07:06 pm IST

Rethink safety regime for amusement park and fair rides

Missing in all of this is a requirement for the corporation to periodically and scientifically assess the safety of technology, operations, and the skill-level of ride-operators (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 08, 2025 07:14 pm IST

Defining Raj Bhavans’ remit

The practice of indefinitely sitting on bills passed by the legislative assembly undermine electoral democracy and violate the spirit of the Constitution (ANI Pic Service)

Published on Apr 08, 2025 07:10 pm IST

The challenges before CPM’s new leadership

For an ideology-driven political outfit, such transitions are also about ensuring continuity (PTI)

Published on Apr 07, 2025 08:17 pm IST

A barometer of Trump turmoil

Monday’s market mayhem reinforces the importance of two essential behaviour among retail investors : long-term thinking and balanced asset allocation (AFP)

Updated on Apr 07, 2025 08:13 pm IST

CSK must tackle its Dhoni problem

Dhoni looks like a player who has reached his limit but refuses to acknowledge it (PTI)

Published on Apr 06, 2025 07:05 pm IST

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