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    India should chase its own IP-led global standards

    opinion
    Published on Sep 24, 2026 01:20 IST
    Recently, the Supreme Court brought a long-awaited quietus to the battle between the Competition Commission of India and patent owners. Resolving a 2013 dispute over patent licensing, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s ruling that India’s patent legislation is a complete code that prevails over the Competition Act.

    Germany’s political churn is about a shrinking centre

    The Brandmauer, or firewall, against the AfD has not reduced its political significance. It is isolated in the legislature, but its popular vote continues to grow.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 24, 2026 01:20 IST

    Hormuz crisis raises an unexpected marine risk

    The immediate priority should be to assess vessels that have remained in the Gulf for long periods.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 24, 2026 01:20 IST

    Belonging has become a deeply contested concept

    In Trumpland, ICE is aggressively sending immigrants into the cold
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 23, 2026 02:42 IST

    India and China can build a new order together

    The bigger story is not the political differences between the two countries but that, together, they will economically eclipse the West.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 23, 2026 02:41 IST

    A necessary pivot on defence production

    What makes this moment significant is the defence technology now emerging from Indian factories.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 23, 2026 02:39 IST

    Keeping up with UP| Young minds: A maze political parties struggle to navigate

    UP youth groups
    opinion
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 07:45 IST

    UPI: India’s success story in transforming financial governance

    The core feature of UPI is interoperability. Users of different banks and payment applications can transact with one another through common UPI infrastructure.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 06:49 IST

    Universities as labs of entrepreneurship

    The entrepreneurial transformation in India could not be more timely. Emerging technologies are enabling startups to do what only governments and giant corporations could do so far.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 22, 2026 01:06 IST

    Magic of performing arts in a mundane digital world

    A play can't go viral the way a reel can. It can only be attended, in a room that will never assemble in quite the same way again.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 01:06 IST

    Joining hands for water security as warming rises

    The climate crisis may make the water cycle more uncertain. Our response cannot be uncertain.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 22, 2026 01:06 IST

    Ecostani: SIR, voter deletion and 2029 Census challenge

    By the time the SIR ended before the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, the number of voters had increased to 67.18 crore.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 21, 2026 09:10 IST

    Reframing the women and work dialogue

    If a woman’s job is to cook, clean and care for children and the elderly, then where is the time for her to work outside the house?
    opinion
    Published on Sep 21, 2026 02:30 IST

    Worrying signs of widening war and economic pain

    Global systems, beset by change and distress, have drawn exasperation worldwide and fuelled the expansion of regional conflicts
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    Making Delhi's heritage and infrastructure resilient

    Conservation cannot mean freezing historic buildings and neighbourhoods in time: Heritage must remain a living part of the city.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    India urgently needs a National Chemicals Code

    Two major industrial accidents in the same district in Tamil Nadu, within 48 hours, in June this year exposed a deeper structural weakness
    opinion
    Published on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    Metro living, mediated by the gated societies

    I have spent more than a decade in Gurugram, but when I hear people say, “It’s not a place worth living,” I nod in agreement, because this is theoretically correct for all Indian metros
    opinion
    Published on Sep 20, 2026 01:27 IST

    The long, challenging road to gender equality

    Rights once granted are now under threat. Section 377 — sex against the order of nature — is no longer a crime but marriage equality failed to get majority approval in the Supreme Court. Also, back in the Supreme Court is Sabarimala and the right of women to access places of worship with the issue now being heard by a larger bench.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 20, 2026 01:25 IST

    The SIR exercise and the points of concern

    Under the SIR exercise block level officers (BLOs) — mostly government school teachers — have been given the authority to decide whether a voter, who is already on the rolls and has voted earlier, is a citizen of India and can continue on the rolls. Is it right to give such powers to BLOs?
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 20, 2026 01:24 IST

    Remembering even what’s difficult, painful is necessary

    Remembering is necessary because forgetting is dangerous. And difficult because remembering is about feeling guilty, feeling like wanting to atone.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 20, 2026 01:24 IST

    The strange immortality of an artiste

    The greatest tribute to him is not a memorial, a statue or a record. It is that his songs refuse to become memories.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 09:13 IST

    Where is India in West Africa’s security bet?

    Since 2020, juntas have seized power in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso (The Alliance of Sahel States), each arguing that expelling Western forces and turning to Moscow would achieve what a decade of French-led counterterrorism had not.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 01:02 IST

    PM Modi's legacy: A 25-year record of leadership without parallel

    The 25 years of Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in government mark one of the most consequential chapters in modern Indian leadership.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 19, 2026 03:01 IST

    Indian Americans must keep marching despite racial insults

    Generational changes can take many forms, including in accents and fluency, the softening of customs, intermarriage, and civic involvement. These processes are already well underway.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 24:51 IST

    Companies need to prove their safety measures work

    The only practical answer to the black-box that AI has become is continuous and transparent auditing and measurement.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:45 IST

    Heed Amodei and Altman, frame AI regulations now

    AI has begun building the next generation of AI, a loop, he admits, started inside his company.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:45 IST

    GDP row is a fight over the donkey’s shadow

    GDP is a good measure of economic activity but a poor measure of the things that make a country a good place to live.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:44 IST

    Bringing the margins into the mainstream

    The lasting legacy of the Modi era is the redefinition of the Indian mainstream.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 02:51 IST

    The structural flaw in the Prevention of Atrocities Act

    Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi escalated Kharge’s charge to a constitutional one, invoking Article 17 of the Constitution.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 17, 2026 02:34 IST

    Indians need rights over all forms of digital likeness

    The Supreme Court has held that privacy is a fundamental right, covering informational privacy or control over how your personal information is gathered and used. That understanding evolved in an era when the primary concern was collecting information about people.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 02:31 IST
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