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Deregulation in focus, the bet is on entrepreneurs

Published on Apr 24, 2026 08:33 pm IST

The objective is to prepare India for the FTAs now being negotiated and to build an industrial base capable of accessing newly opened markets and defending its position at home. (Reuters)

India’s food security is largely dependent on the Persian Gulf

The Green Revolution was India’s first independence from famines and food shortages. Our second Green Revolution will have to focus on independence from the unpredictable and uncontrollable politics of West Asia. (AFP)

Published on Apr 24, 2026 08:00 am IST

Renewing the missing spirit of multilateralism

Regional and plurilateral associations — whether BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or the African Union — perform an important function. They are expressions of the same indispensable fact that shared problems require shared institutions. (AFP)

Published on Apr 24, 2026 01:02 am IST

Amid the global churn, flying into turbulence

Published on Apr 24, 2026 01:01 am IST

Indian police: Everyone’s favourite punching bag

The police system in the country is in bad shape. It is the toughest and the most thankless of all jobs in the country. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 12:59 am IST

The stakes are high in the Sabarimala matter

The Supreme Court is no longer resolving a localised dispute but laying down a meta-framework for how religious practices will be tested across faiths. (HT Archive)

Published on Apr 22, 2026 08:49 pm IST

What Delhi’s TOD policy gets right, what it does not

Under a well-designed TOD, living near a metro station should simply mean that you don’t need a car. But Delhi’s new TOD requires one equivalent car space per 100 square metres of FAR. This is not a parking cap, it is mandating parking provision. (HT Archive)

Published on Apr 22, 2026 08:49 pm IST

Information war in West Asia and lessons for India

In the online world, audiences do not gather around one official message. They gather around language that feels native to their mood. (AFP)

Published on Apr 22, 2026 08:49 pm IST

Why Dhaka is watching Bengal elections closely

The Trinamool Congress’s poll manifesto signals an engagement-oriented approach toward Bangladesh, emphasising the strengthening of economic and cultural ties and a renewed focus on relations with immediate neighbours. (ANI)

Published on Apr 21, 2026 08:44 pm IST

How Islamabad built its narrative on Op Sindoor

Today, even as Pakistan projects itself as a mediator in the West Asia war, it is crumbling from within. (AFP)

Published on Apr 21, 2026 08:44 pm IST

Pahalgam targeted hope, tested India’s resilience

Terrorism is designed not just to kill but to kill the idea of everyday life. Building societal resilience is as important as increasing tactical costs. (PTI)

Published on Apr 21, 2026 08:44 pm IST

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Is an airport concierge worth the money? It depends

There is no point buying a business class ticket and then spending two hours getting out of the airport. (Freepk)

Published on Apr 21, 2026 11:19 am IST

West Asia’s security is now India’s problem too

The Gulf’s security cannot be separated from that of the Indian Ocean. (AFP)

Published on Apr 20, 2026 08:37 pm IST

In Karnataka, the quiet demise of Ahinda politics

Siddaramaiah had the foresight, vision, and the opportunity to forge a new path that could have truly breathed new life into the Alpasankhyataru - Hindulidavaru - Dalitaru , or Ahinda , platform. But in capitulating to caste/family dictates, he has chosen not only to forsake political morality but has squandered a chance of being a bolder heir to the legacies of Devaraj Urs. (@siddaramaiah X/PTI)

Published on Apr 20, 2026 08:37 pm IST

West Bengal’s paradox of economic transformation

People in West Bengal are not significantly worse off compared to the rest of India, because of the gains after the 1970s-1980s rural reforms. (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 20, 2026 08:36 pm IST

Not rescue but revolution: Inside Kranti’s radical classroom

Courtesy: @wearekranti/Instagram

Published on Apr 20, 2026 08:01 am IST

The wages of war, for Trump and Netanyahu

In terms of perception, Trump seemed to have suffered at home because of the war while Netanyahu seems to have bolstered his strongman image at home. (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 19, 2026 10:33 pm IST

Strait truth: India must hasten energy transition

The recurring energy market ructions of recent years have made one thing abundantly clear: Economies built around imported fossil fuels remain structurally vulnerable to geopolitical disruption (AFP)

Published on Apr 19, 2026 10:33 pm IST

Lessons from US courts on social media liability

Restricting access to social media for minors has been debated for years now. Hopefully, the US courts’ decisions in KGM and New Mexico — and more particularly, their grounding in access to material detailing the internal functioning of social media platforms — should ease the conundrum the government faces (the choice between light-touch regulation to promote innovation and the need to protect users) (REUTERS)

Published on Apr 19, 2026 10:33 pm IST

Why do older women trash talk younger women?

For many older women, especially those who came of age under stricter gender norms, adherence to certain gender norms was a calculated negotiation within limited options

Published on Apr 19, 2026 07:51 pm IST

Rethinking global order in the precincts of Nalanda

Industrial warfare, aerial bombardment, and weapons capable of unprecedented devastation reshaped both the ethics and limits of conflict. The post-war system emerged from this trauma. (AFP)

Published on Apr 19, 2026 07:30 pm IST

Why it is hard to trump a civilisational State

A nation-State, in its modern conception, is a political construct. A civilisational-State, by contrast, is something far deeper and more enduring. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Apr 18, 2026 08:06 pm IST

Peter Magyar, the Eliza Doolittle of Hungary

Peter Magyar, you could say, is the new “king of the castle”. He’s turfed out the dictator-tyrant Orban. But he is, in fact, an ordinary politician who no one ever thought would be important. (Reuters)

Published on Apr 18, 2026 08:05 pm IST

A podium to speak and heal, not wound further

John F Kennedy’s Inaugural Address is made of ideas and words we can hardly believe came from where they did. Every paragraph of that speech crafted by Kennedy is of epic voltage. (Getty Images)

Published on Apr 18, 2026 08:05 pm IST

Building the case for open licenses

The expected outcomes of MAHA-Drones are decrease in reliance on imports for critical drone-related technologies, strengthening national supply chains and domestic manufacturing capabilities, and improving collaboration and knowledge exchange among academia, national research laboratories, and industry (Santosh Kumar/HT Photo)

Published on Apr 17, 2026 10:37 pm IST

Conservatism’s paradox: Abiding internationalism

Vance’s appearance in Budapest did not come out of the blue. A distinctive feature of the Trump administration has been its efforts to rally like-minded parties around the world. (Reuters)

Published on Apr 17, 2026 10:37 pm IST

Nitish Kumar: Last tall leader of JP movement

Nitish Kumar represents a rare kind of political discipline, one that does not seek consistent outcomes. In a time when politics is often driven by spectacle, his work remained grounded in delivery. (CMO Bihar/ANI)

Published on Apr 17, 2026 10:37 pm IST

Geopolitics over planet: Is it the ‘madness gene’?

Conlficts led or influenced by the Global North are not just geopolitical events. They are mechanisms that divert climate finance, reinforce fossil dependence, and export compounded climate and health risks to the Global South. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 17, 2026 09:44 pm IST

The climate game India cannot afford to lose

The current instability of global oil markets makes this precisely the moment to lean into the energy transition rather than away from it. (AP)

Published on Apr 17, 2026 05:19 pm IST

In Bengal, Assam polls, a test of Indian democracy

The 2026 elections in Assam and West Bengal risk normalising a campaign in which the rules of the game become contested too. (PTI)

Published on Apr 16, 2026 09:07 pm IST

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