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    India’s interests must come first

    editorials
    Published on Jun 21, 2026 15:12 IST
    Israel’s current conduct in Lebanon raises further concerns, both of principles and practicality. In recent months, Israeli strikes in Lebanon to neutralise Hezbollah have killed civilians, just like in Gaza, and intensified the conflict. (AP)

    The dangers of unauthorised construction in the national capital

    For decades, public debate has focused on illegal buildings, unauthorised colonies and encroachments as though they are aberrations that emerged despite planning. The reality is more uncomfortable. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 19, 2026 14:59 IST

    Modi-Trump geniality must yield trade gains

    Trump’s effusiveness about India and Modi with the backdrop of trade tariffs, Washington’s increasing closeness with Pakistan army chief Asim Munir, and US attack killing three Indian seafarers appears particularly jarring. (AP)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 18, 2026 15:54 IST

    What the Iran conflict reveals about America’s limits in West Asia

    For the third time in six years, global supply chains have come under threat, and India would do well to prepare for the next crisis. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 18, 2026 15:54 IST

    Blocking Telegram won’t solve the bigger digital governance problem

    After asking the air force to deliver question papers for the June 21 re-examination, asking the paramilitary force to escort the papers, and putting the question setters in isolation, the government explained its latest diktat. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 17, 2026 14:21 IST

    India must prepare early for the economic impact of a weak monsoon

    2026 is likely to have a rainfall deficit which will be much larger than what has been the case in the recent past. This will matter for agricultural production in the current and next two cropping seasons. (AFP)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 17, 2026 14:20 IST

    Stanford reminds US Inc. of social responsibility

    Pichai is not the first industry leader to face a protest in an academic setting and he won’t be the last. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 16, 2026 16:04 IST

    Managing our cities better

    Delhi’s suburban cousin Gurugram is an example of what can go wrong when real estate giants develop a city while the State takes a hands-off approach. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 16, 2026 16:03 IST

    TMC split puts laws on defection in the dock

    It is ironic that former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is the latest victim of this brand of transactional politics because she pioneered this brand of soft defections in Bengal when she picked up a number of Bharatiya Janata Party legislators without any of them losing their seats. (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 15, 2026 14:26 IST

    Iran persisted, the US blinked

    Whether US President Donald Trump will be able to withstand Netanyahu’s bellicosity, apart from swallowing his own pride, and go ahead with signing the deal is yet to be seen. (Bloomberg)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 15, 2026 14:25 IST

    The switch India doesn’t hold

    Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are not irreplaceable; Anthropic offers others, as do its rivals OpenAI and Google. Nothing collapsed on Friday. Lesser models stayed live, and the task Indians most often turn to these tools for — writing software — has ready substitutes. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 14, 2026 17:03 IST

    No succour for families a year after the AI crash

    Apart from saying that the inquiry was proceeding across aircraft systems, flight recorder data, and engine-related components, the statement offered barely any insights. (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 14, 2026 17:02 IST

    Millions of women work every day without a paycheck

    To begin with, the problem must be acknowledged as two-fold. The first is the socio-cultural baggage of burdening women with “homemaking” duties, a hangover from India’s pre-capitalist past. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 12, 2026 18:01 IST

    Building a roadmap for lasting peace in Manipur

    Despite the end of President’s Rule and the emergence of a new political leadership drawn from the state’s principal communities, normalcy remains elusive. (Reuters)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 11, 2026 14:36 IST

    The cost of the US’s Iran gambit

    Though acting nonchalant, the US is perturbed by Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 11, 2026 14:36 IST

    Student suicides are a failure of institutions

    Attitudes, not numbers, are the most alarming aspect of the report. The larger malaise — that of apathy to students — triggered not only suicide, but also suicidal attempts, ideation, passive death wish, self-harm, and mental health struggles. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 10, 2026 15:37 IST

    Accountability down the sewers

    he Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, was meant to permanently put an end to the practice. But the numbers tell a different story. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 10, 2026 15:37 IST

    H-1B visa is a measure of American politics

    This week, a US court ruled Trump’s enhanced H-1B visa fee illegal. The ruling offers relief to both employees and employers under the visa programme. This is unambiguously good news. (AP)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 9, 2026 15:06 IST

    India’s politics in the last 12 years

    Modi has rewritten the grammar of electoral politics, expanded the Bharatiya Janata Party’s reach to communities and regions once thought impossible, and used a combination of welfarism, Hindutva, and personal popularity to corner the Opposition. (Narendra Modi Photo Gallery/ANI)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 9, 2026 15:06 IST

    Why India's capital keeps running short of water

    Every summer the Yamuna falls and every summer the same plants struggle. What is changing, slowly, is the upstream supply. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 8, 2026 15:10 IST

    The INDIA bloc is running out of easy options

    There was no coordination, no meeting, no common agenda or concerted effort to corner the government, so much so that commitments to conduct regular meetings of the bloc — in Parliament and outside — were two of the five resolutions adopted at Monday’s meeting. (Arvind yadav/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 8, 2026 15:10 IST

    Resetting New Delhi’s Kathmandu connection

    The new Nepalese leadership has signalled that it wants to engage with India without any baggage of the past and on a more equal footing, with the focus squarely on speeding up the development of the country. (@DrSJaishankar)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 7, 2026 16:01 IST

    Better divorced than suffering

    The bench acknowledged that courts should ordinarily strive to preserve the institution of marriage, but drew an important distinction between the principle and individual interests, especially when bound in a relationship that had ceased to exist in any meaningful sense. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 7, 2026 16:01 IST

    Economy is hurt, not sinking

    RBI’s latest growth and inflation projections for the economy for 2026-27 stand at 6.6% and 5.1%. That entails a downgrade of 1.1 percentage points in growth and 3 percentage point increase for inflation. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 5, 2026 15:08 IST

    Beyond TMC crisis, a test for satraps

    The desertions may be seen as the latest in a series of failures for the anti-defection law. (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 4, 2026 15:39 IST

    Can the Aravallis be saved now?

    The Aravallis have been notionally under judicial protection since 1985; four decades of hearings have not prevented the loss of 31 hillocks across 3,000 sites, or resolved the basic question of what the range legally comprises. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 4, 2026 15:39 IST

    Impunity of disaster compensations

    In disaster after disaster, victims get sops in the name of compensation instead of any systemic changes or infrastructural overhauls. Worse still, the alacrity with which the compensation is announced goes missing at the time of disbursement. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 3, 2026 15:23 IST

    A tough road ahead for DKS

    Shivakumar will not only have to push the pedal on policy and governance but also deepen the party’s inroads among his own community of Vokkaligas. (PTI)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 3, 2026 15:23 IST

    Serena Williams and sports comebacks

    Why return to the sport after staying away from it for four years, post her two-decade domination?Maybe it’s unfinished business. (AFP)
    editorials
    Published on Jun 2, 2026 14:58 IST

    Girls are doing the heavy lifting

    Expenditure on women’s education is still seen as an indulgence. Out of all women going abroad to study in elite institutions, only a third do it for STEM. (HT Archive)
    editorials
    Updated on Jun 2, 2026 14:58 IST
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