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The lockdown and its economic costs

A deserted Sector 8 market in Noida during the weekly lockdown imposed by Uttar Pradesh earlier this month. (HT archive)
Updated on Jul 27, 2021 12:36 IST

The end of the BSY era

BS Yediyurappa during a programme commemorating two years of the BJP government in Karnataka at Vidhanasoudha in Bengaluru, Monday. (PTI)
Updated on Jul 26, 2021 11:03 IST

Two parties, one challenge

From UP to Punjab, Karnataka to Rajasthan, both national parties are attempting to manage state units with an eye on the next election and generational transition, while ensuring Delhi’s writ runs. (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jul 25, 2021 13:03 IST

The rise in extreme weather events

Indian Air Force teams carry out rescue work in flood-hit Chiplun in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, following heavy monsoon rain. (PTI)
Published on Jul 23, 2021 12:40 IST

It is the Olympics

Representational image. (AP)
Updated on Jul 22, 2021 12:07 IST

Covid-19: The battle ahead

At present, many regions of the country are logging numbers last seen in February. That is when India became complacent. It must not make the same mistake again since this time, if it is able to drive up vaccination rates, the country may well be in the home stretch of the war against Covid-19. (HTPhoto)
Published on Jul 21, 2021 14:15 IST

The Congress in Punjab

It is an open secret that Mr Sidhu’s sources of strength were Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (ANI)
Updated on Jul 21, 2021 01:01 IST

An attack on citizens

If the allegations of widespread surveillance are true, they represent an unacceptable and illegal invasion of the right to privacy, right to liberty, and the right to dignity of all those targeted; the series also throw up deeply disturbing questions about the source of the hack and represents a subversion of India’s constitutional democracy. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jul 20, 2021 01:44 IST

Housing is critical for the environment

A 2020 Niti Aayog paper, titled Housing Conundrum, showed the housing market has a skewed demand–supply management. Housing backlogs coexist with stressed assets and vacant housing stock. The development of affordable housing is constrained by economic and spatial issues. Land use plans are unable to keep pace with rapid urban population increase and land development. (Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 20, 2021 01:44 IST

The Kabul dilemma

Former Mujahideen hold weapons to support Afghan forces in their fight against the Taliban, on the outskirts of Herat province, Afghanistan July 10, 2021 (REUTERS)
Updated on Jul 19, 2021 01:29 IST

The battle for Lucknow

Representational image. (HT Archive)
Updated on Jul 19, 2021 01:27 IST

On the border, China isn’t listening

On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet at Dushanbe, India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi (REUTERS)
Published on Jul 15, 2021 13:19 IST

CJI Ramana stands for liberty

**EDS: FILE PHOTO** New Delhi: In this file photo dated Sept. 2, 2013, Supreme Court Judge Justice NV Ramana. Justice NV Ramana was appointed as the next Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)(PTI04_06_2021_000241B) (PTI)
Updated on Jul 15, 2021 11:04 IST

The inflation challenge

Representational image. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jul 14, 2021 11:00 IST

Preparing for the monsoon session

A view of the Parliament House. (Mohd Zakir/HT Archive)
Updated on Jul 14, 2021 11:01 IST

The judiciary rescues Nepali democracy

Sher Bahadur Deuba. (REUTERS)
Published on Jul 13, 2021 09:31 IST

India will miss its vaccination target

The country’s vaccination rate surged to record levels when the Union government brought the programme back under its control.
Published on Jul 12, 2021 14:56 IST

Monsoon: IMD has been consistently wrong

As the rains play their mysterious game with the national Capital, IMD must use it as a wake-up call. (HTPHOTO)
Published on Jul 11, 2021 14:40 IST

The graveyard of empires

Afghan National Army 215th Corps troops disembark an Afghan Air Force (AAF) Black Hawk helicopter during a troop re-supply at Camp Shorabak in Helmand Province in 2018. (Representational image/REUTERS)
Published on Jul 9, 2021 11:39 IST

The method in Modi’s rupture

This is arguably the most sweeping reshuffle in a council of ministers in independent India (PTI)
Published on Jul 8, 2021 14:15 IST

A negative stimulus

Representational Image. (HT archive)
Updated on Jul 7, 2021 10:38 IST