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    In Great Nicobar, a shifting of the green goalposts

    opinion
    Published on Feb 27, 2026 15:09 IST
    All available records and evidence suggest it should have CRZ-1A status and maximum legal protection. Yet, the MoEFCC went ahead and granted EC to the project. (Shutterstock)

    Life After 65: India’s Next Development Frontier

    A healthier 65-year-old is less likely to require years of dependency. The cheapest pension reform is disease prevention. The most sustainable social security system is one in which older adults remain functionally independent for longer. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 27, 2026 14:36 IST

    India’s flying training organisations need reset

    The last several weeks have seen several incidents involving India’s FTOs and smaller trainer-aircraft. In January itself, an IndiaOne Air Cessna Grand C208B aircraft with six on board crash landed in Odisha’s Rourkela. Thankfully, there were no fatalities. (Fire Department/ANI)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 27, 2026 24:36 IST

    Climate crisis and health, and AI at the intersection

    AI and machine learning have the potential to transform weather forecasts into daily, hyper-local health risk alerts. This involves analysing temperature, humidity, night-time heat, and urban hotspots, while considering the most vulnerable. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 26, 2026 15:28 IST

    Fate of US trade deal post tariff takedown

    While the Trump administration certainly has alternative levers to pull to resuscitate the tariffs, they all have limitations. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 26, 2026 15:27 IST

    The Price of Delay, The Promise of Prevention: India’s HPV Vaccine Moment

    If HPV vaccination is institutionalised within India’s universal immunisation programme with assured financing, supply continuity, transparent monitoring, and parallel strengthening of screening and treatment pathways, the country could compress decades of projected mortality into a generational shift. (AP)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 26, 2026 18:26 IST

    The private forestry plan must square with Forest Rights Act

    Bypassing gram sabhas excludes the well-established benefits of community-based forest management. Those who live in and depend on forests are more likely to make sustainable decisions. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 25, 2026 14:41 IST

    Indian constitutionalism’s stress test in the digital age

    Until the landmark NALSA judgment that recognised a “third gender”, the Supreme Court constantly maintained that the Constitution does not recognise privacy as a fundamental right (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 25, 2026 14:41 IST

    The smartphone can wait, childhood can’t

    Access to smartphones at a young age can mean social media anxiety at the cost of genuine friendship. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 26, 2026 24:21 IST

    India is now at a clean energy inflection point

    India’s clean energy manufacturing ecosystem is scaling, but has some distance to go before we can truly turn it into a competitive advantage. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 24, 2026 15:25 IST

    A sledgehammer approach to monitoring AI-origin info

    The definition of synthetically generated information and the due diligence obligations are vague and leave it to the intermediaries to decide on and label such content. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 24, 2026 15:24 IST

    A ‘decades happening in weeks’ moment?

    Advances in AI models have wiped out a massive amount from the market value of software companies in the past few weeks. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 24, 2026 11:18 IST

    The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Why hotels love buffets

    From a hotel’s point of view, the buffet successfully exploits the difference between appearance and human capacity.
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 24, 2026 04:26 IST

    Weaving richer success for India’s apparel sector

    For India to emerge as a true alternative manufacturing hub rather than a supplementary one, the industry must rapidly make bold choices and transform. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 23, 2026 14:34 IST

    The great Indian local governance challenge

    Local governments received statutory backing only after the liberalisation of the economy in the early 1990s. The 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments were aimed at empowering village and city governments to deliver local public goods. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 23, 2026 14:33 IST

    India-Pakistan ties: Managing crises in the absence of dialogue

    Water remains a particularly sensitive domain. The Indus Waters Treaty was negotiated in a very different geopolitical era. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 24, 2026 24:51 IST

    budget provision to national capability: Why India’s CCUS commitment matters

    Carbon capture systems involve high upfront costs, complex integration with operating facilities, and long payback periods. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 23, 2026 13:22 IST

    Strengthening urban governance for climate resilience

    Today, in Delhi one in seven deaths has been associated with air pollution. By 2030, 40% of Indian cities are projected to run out of water, and urban areas are increasingly going to experience severe heat waves. (PTI)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 23, 2026 13:22 IST

    Mind The Gap: The problem with rape judgments

    chief justice
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 23, 2026 24:47 IST

    Recalling Bandung 1955 in push to democratise AI

    The convergence of talent at the summit can be regarded as one of India’s most potent initiatives in the arena of AI diplomacy. (Sanjeev Verma/ Hindustan Times)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 22, 2026 16:50 IST

    World after the judicial rebuff of Trump tariffs

    Two legal provisions that Trump can also use to impose tariffs are Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act and Section 301 of the Trade Act. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 22, 2026 16:50 IST

    Talent in the AI age: Code coolies to core engineers

    As AI automates coding, testing, documentation, and maintenance, core engineers will have stronger incentives to remain in their disciplines, reskill with AI, and apply it to real problems in infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and medicine — precisely where India needs them. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 22, 2026 16:50 IST

    Let’s talk about punch, the abandoned monkey

    Punch clings to a toy because he was abandoned, which, by the way, is par for the course per evolution theories. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 22, 2026 15:10 IST

    Pakistan’s cricket mirrors suffocation of its civic life

    The cricket field is not a parade ground, and batsmen are not infantry obeying orders. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 21, 2026 16:04 IST

    When cricket becomes war minus the shooting

    There is an important point to remember about sport. The opposing side are not your adversaries. They are certainly not your enemies. They are merely opponents as keen to win the game as you are to defeat them. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 21, 2026 16:03 IST

    Nuh’s women get a voice against domestic violence

    A community radio is run by the locals, speaks to the community in its language, and allows women to share, even anonymously if needed (Mohd Imran/Radio Mewat)
    opinion
    Updated on Feb 22, 2026 14:55 IST

    If clocks do not stop on Sundays, life too shouldn’t

    Such a mystique hangs over that last day of the week, that it cannot be regarded as just like any other day. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 21, 2026 16:01 IST

    How India scripted its renewables growth story

    Boosted by the increasing economic viability of renewables, India is outpacing other major developing countries in scaling cost-effective clean energy. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 20, 2026 14:37 IST

    What Japan has meant to India, through a lens of history

    Fearing diminishment, Japan is moving in the direction of rearmament, in every sense of the word. The spectacular election of Takaichi is but a sign of this churn. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 20, 2026 14:37 IST

    Riding high on hope, waiting for deliverance

    The BNP, regardless of its dynastic constitution, history of mis-governance, and an inclination towards corruption, won hands down. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Feb 20, 2026 14:37 IST
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