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Deregulation as a tool to discipline the State

Published on Nov 18, 2025 08:50 pm IST

The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 and the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 embody the transition from a permission-and-penalty regime to a trust-based government (HT Archive)

Europe and the Indo-Pacific: Partners for a resilient future

Together, India and the European Union are promoting a model of growth that is environmentally sustainable, inclusive, and climate resilient. (Randhir Jaiswal X/ANI)

Published on Nov 18, 2025 08:50 pm IST

In new Bhutan, tradition & progress march in step

India stands with the new Bhutan just as it did with the old, with the friendship anchored in mutual interest, and sensitivity. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Nov 18, 2025 08:47 pm IST

What pollution in Delhi means for senior citizens

For the elderly, the shared commons — the parks, the pavements, the markets — are now places to avoid. Once free and open spaces now feel unsafe, even hostile. (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 17, 2025 09:05 pm IST

Different threads in Red Fort bomb blast

After 2005, it was only in 2019 that bomb blasts returned to J&K when a JeM suicide bomber blew up a bus near Pulwama. (H Archive)

Published on Nov 17, 2025 09:05 pm IST

Mamdani moment and the ideological churn in the US

Mamdani’s social democratic politics has taken on an issue that has mass appeal going beyond New York. (REUTERS)

Published on Nov 17, 2025 09:05 pm IST

How companies must prepare for the DPDP Act

Large, or data-intensive organisations also need to plan for the possibility of being designated as Significant Data Fiduciaries. India uses its own set of criteria to make this determination, including the sensitivity and volume of data handled and the use of emerging technologies. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 17, 2025 08:21 pm IST

Mind The Gap: How women voters powered the NDA’s Bihar sweep

Bihar election

Published on Nov 17, 2025 07:00 am IST

India-Bhutan: Reiterating old ties in a new context

The visit also underscored India’s gratitude and willingness to engage with the popular and beloved monarchy of the country. (@MEAIndia)

Published on Nov 16, 2025 09:52 pm IST

Grand Alliance’s failure holds a mirror to the RJD

Even as Tejashwi Yadav rose as the face of the party’s future, the party’s past — one defined by the “15-years-of-misrule” narrative — hung like an albatross from his neck. (PTI)

Published on Nov 16, 2025 09:52 pm IST

Bihar’s political chess master and his moves

Nitish was the first Bihar CM to initiate a policy to offer every family a home and every home a drinking water connection. (PTI)

Published on Nov 16, 2025 09:51 pm IST

Missing women in the assemblies, Parliament

Thanks to reservation, our panchayats have 33% elected women and, in states such as Bihar 50%, but in the Lok Sabha, it’s 14% and in state assemblies it’s an average of 9%. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 15, 2025 09:58 pm IST

India’s war films: Of nationalism and the stories we tell

Memorials, parades, and patriotic cinema have become rituals of belonging. (ANI)

Published on Nov 15, 2025 09:58 pm IST

Bihar elections: Looking beyond the Mandal versus Kamandal paradigm

Mandal endures because caste continues to be a material concern for millions of Indians, not because it’s an ideological project. (HT Photo)

Published on Nov 15, 2025 09:58 pm IST

Trump and the BBC: Misreporting triggers a crisis

The BBC should have admitted its mistake and apologised without being forced to do so after Trump called it out and threatened to sue the Corporation. (AFP)

Published on Nov 15, 2025 09:58 pm IST

Never-ending wait for Bihar’s transformation

Women remain underrepresented as legislators, organisational leaders and policy shapers. Bihar thus represents a distinctive feminist paradox — women as the infrastructure of political participation but rarely its architects. (@CEOBihar X/ANI)

Published on Nov 14, 2025 10:50 pm IST

Bihar election verdict offers lessons for political princelings

There’s a lesson in the results for Tejashwi, Rahul Gandhi and Mukesh Sahani. You can’t surface just before the elections to entice the voters with gimmicks and expect to sweep them off their feet. (AICC/ANI)

Published on Nov 14, 2025 10:50 pm IST

Why India’s judiciary needs to defend free speech

It is worth remembering that our courts are meant to function as courts of law, not courts of moral, or public opinion. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 13, 2025 09:13 pm IST

Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: The right way to talk about it

When we start localising the problem, people begin to see themselves in the story and are more inclined to act. City-specific data, community health impacts, or neighbourhood stories make the air quality issue tangible. (ANI)

Published on Nov 13, 2025 09:13 pm IST

Connecting the dots in the Red Fort car blast

Terrorism cannot be created anew. It can only build on an existing divisive situation. Pakistan is a prime example. (ANI)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 09:13 pm IST

Lesson from past epidemics: The front lines of public health are not hospitals

Ebola’s legacy reveals an uncomfortable truth: Environmental sustainability is not just conservation, it is disease prevention. (REUTERS)

Published on Nov 13, 2025 07:50 pm IST

Coral depletion to epidemics: How environmental collapse fuelled Ebola outbreak

A health worker watches a burial team with Ebola victims in Liberia. (Getty File)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 03:34 pm IST

2025 Booker Prize: Szalay’s fiction builds on the melancholy of Europe

Some of the novels short-listed for this year’s Booker prize share this particular trait of exploring solitariness as an awareness of the body. (AP)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Next-generation ESG reforms in India through smart proteins and animal welfare

Smart proteins account for a fraction of the land- and water-use and emissions tied to conventional livestock-based protein production. They also align with India’s long cultural familiarity with plant-based diets. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Nov 12, 2025 08:57 pm IST

In the Nithari case, an indictment of procedural deficiencies

The parents were the first to report their children missing in 2005, the first to protest outside D5, and the last to be heard. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:56 pm IST

India’s Silver Future: Building a society that ages gracefully

Traditionally, Indian families cared collectively for elders. But as joint families shrink, many seniors face financial insecurity, loneliness, and, increasingly, abuse or abandonment. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Why Bihar’s government finances are in doldrums

Nearly 88% of Bihar’s population still lives in rural areas, underlining the absence of urbanisation and industrialisation. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Shaping India’s liberal arts education for the AI age

The liberal arts curriculum is where ethical imagination is forged. It trains students to ask sharper, more meaningful questions. (Shutterstock)

Published on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

Locking in the gains of Operation Sindoor

India needs to augment Brahmos’s capability to penetrate hardened and underground targets. It must also be mindful of this requirement when acquiring future precision-targeting weapons. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 11, 2025 08:34 pm IST

What India needs to do to become an arbitration hub

Despite the authoritative rulings of the Supreme Court, the reality remains very different. Section 34 petitions continue to evolve into extended battles, followed by Section 37 appeals and sometimes even special leave petitions before the Court. (HT Archive)

Published on Nov 10, 2025 09:27 pm IST

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