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    The deferred FCRA bill calls for a quiet burial

    opinion
    Published on Apr 25, 2026 17:07 IST
    The government has not given a clear reason why it wants to amend the FCRA bill. It simply claims it’s to ensure that the incoming foreign money does not affect national interest, public order or national security. (HT Archive)

    How institutions build credibility and sustain it

    Without credible institutions, rules lose force and contracts lose meaning. If one looks around in India and globally today, there is a growing sense that what we once accepted about institutions has been eroding and not without reason. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 25, 2026 17:07 IST

    Warrior turns killer in the age of non-contact wars

    The ease of initiating wars, incentivised by reduced combatant casualties, has come at the cost of putting the civilian population of the warring parties in harm’s way. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 24, 2026 15:03 IST

    Forty years after disaster, lessons about nuclear safety

    The explosion at reactor no. 4 was the result of grave flaws in the reactor’s design and a Soviet system built on secrecy, irresponsibility and contempt for safety. For days, the fire sent radioactive material far beyond Ukraine’s borders, contaminating large parts of Europe. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 24, 2026 15:03 IST

    Deregulation in focus, the bet is on entrepreneurs

    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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 24, 2026 15:03 IST

    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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 24, 2026 02:30 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 23, 2026 19:32 IST

    Amid the global churn, flying into turbulence

    The billion-dollar question is whether the brand and the airline will just fade away or if its management can resuscitate the carrier. (Mint Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 23, 2026 19:31 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)
    opinion
    Updated on Apr 23, 2026 19:29 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 22, 2026 15:19 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 22, 2026 15:19 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 22, 2026 15:19 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 21, 2026 15:14 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 21, 2026 15:14 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 21, 2026 15:14 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 21, 2026 05:49 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 15:07 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 15:07 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 15:06 IST

    Not rescue but revolution: Inside Kranti’s radical classroom

    Courtesy: @wearekranti/Instagram
    opinion
    Published on Apr 20, 2026 02:31 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)
    opinion
    Updated on Apr 19, 2026 17:03 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 17:03 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 17:03 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
    opinion
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 14:21 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 19, 2026 14:00 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 18, 2026 14:36 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 18, 2026 14:35 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 18, 2026 14:35 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 17, 2026 17:07 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)
    opinion
    Published on Apr 17, 2026 17:07 IST
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