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    AI and copyright: Need for a nuanced approach

    opinion
    Published on Dec 19, 2025 15:19 IST
    The real question is how India balances efficiency with legitimacy, and scale with consent, at a time when the downstream consequences of generative AI remain uncertain. (REUTERS)

    Can Ayurveda serve population health?

    Insights from Ayurveda can inform better public-health approaches tailored to regional needs or to population sub-groups. These approaches require evidence — but evidence suited to complexity
    opinion
    Published on Dec 19, 2025 04:50 IST

    The need for an urgent roll-out of UPI market-share caps

    UPI empowered small merchants, reduced cash handling, and showcased India as a global leader in digital public infrastructure. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 18, 2025 15:54 IST

    In Bondi attack, echoes of age-old anti-Semitism

    Unearthing and foiling anti-Semitic plots will require far greater intelligence-sharing and cooperation at the international level. (AFP)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 18, 2025 15:54 IST

    Why India’s tourism sector needs a regulatory rethink

    If India hopes to make tourism a $1-trillion industry and generate 50 million jobs in the next decade, its states must move from regulation to facilitation. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 18, 2025 15:54 IST

    From sedition to UAPA: Policing dissent in India

    The Supreme Court is examining sedition because it is a colonial-era law at odds with modern constitutional values. At the same time, UAPA hovers over the discussion because its application often blurs into areas that sedition once occupied (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 17, 2025 16:07 IST

    A remit too wide: Personality rights without a rulebook

    The law must provide remedies for defamation, obscene portrayals and material deception of the public. In fact, the law already does so for each of these harms. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 17, 2025 16:07 IST

    America-first compass for new security strategy

    While the 2017 NSS called out China’s increasing threat in all areas, this one calls for a “rebalance” of America’s economic relationship with China. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 17, 2025 16:07 IST

    Set targets for clean air in the national Capital

    To reduce emissions from the transport sector, governments must expand mass transit systems such as electric buses, walking and cycling, along with making clean transport alternatives more affordable and accessible. (ANI)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 16, 2025 15:35 IST

    Vande Mataram and Tagore’s role in adoption of India’s National Song

    A little less than a century after Tagore’s intervention, it’s his compromise solution that is at the centre of a controversy with the ruling dispensation likening it to a division of the country. (PTI)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 16, 2025 15:35 IST

    The path before India as Bangladesh transitions

    New Delhi’s approach must balance immediate pressures with longer-term vision and tactical adjustments with strategic consistency. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 16, 2025 15:35 IST

    India’s new idiom for ties with West Asia

    While Modi 1.0 scripted Link West as a diplomatic breakthrough, and Modi 2.0 advanced Act West into structured engagement, Modi 3.0 is about consolidating Link West. (PMO via PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 15, 2025 15:32 IST

    What a customs reform exercise must focus on

    Customs reform is not just about policy housekeeping. It is industrial strategy, export policy and logistics reform. (Mint Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 15, 2025 15:32 IST

    Road map for realising India’s nuclear energy goals

    While nuclear energy has a sound economic case, policy support on a par with other clean energy technologies would be inevitable. (HT Arhive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 15, 2025 15:32 IST

    Absolutely the best books by women in 2025

    Credit: India Hamish Hamilton
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 16, 2025 10:30 IST

    Remembering the unsung heroes of the war of 1971

    In December 1961, General Sagat Singh, using speed and guile, quickly secured a victory in Goa against the Portuguese. He’s one of those rare generals of India who defeated three foreign armies. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 14, 2025 17:28 IST

    West Asia-North Africa: An ocean of opportunities for India

    In the face of contemporary anxieties and challenges, it is natural that India should take the lead to promote partnerships. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 14, 2025 17:28 IST

    Stop hyping Big AI: Smart, small models are the future

    Large language models consume vast amounts of hardware, energy, and money to produce sentences that sound good but are often gibberish. They hallucinate, hide their reasoning, and make disastrous mistakes. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 14, 2025 17:28 IST

    The timeless magic of Umrao Jaan

    The film uses close-ups and jump cuts to highlight the inner life of Umrao. By applying the techniques popularised by the stalwarts of the French New Wave, Ali intensifies the discontinuities of Umrao’s life
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 14, 2025 10:04 IST

    Internet Dhurandhars and the battle of opinions

    fter the state elections, the latest bone of contention is Dhurandhar. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 13, 2025 16:09 IST

    Addressing the gender gap in climate policies

    India must internalise the fact that women and girls face unique climate risks and disproportionate stress from natural disasters. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 13, 2025 16:09 IST

    Three steps to improve the functioning of Parliament

    On some days of the Prime Minister’s Question Hour, the LoP scores, on others the PM holds his own. But on all occasions, the focus is on the questions and the answers and the accountability they provide (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 13, 2025 16:08 IST

    Glimpses of Northeast’s rise in Nagaland’s Hornbill festival

    The Northeast is the face of a new, confident India. Like the monolith of Tuophema, we have pulled the weight of the past together, and now, we move forward with a strong resolve, towards a horizon bright with promise. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 13, 2025 16:08 IST

    In Colombo, New Delhi’s relief route to goodwill

    Since the operation’s November 28 launch, India has delivered over 1,058 tonnes of relief materials, and its naval and air forces have been deployed for rescue and relief assistance. (@SpokespersonMoD X/ANI)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 12, 2025 15:21 IST

    Politics to peace, women leading a quiet revolution

    In conflicts within India, women’s groups have repeatedly taken risks to mediate peace. In present-day Manipur, women work discreetly to support displaced families in relief camps, rebuild relationships, and restore threads of trust. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 12, 2025 15:20 IST

    India’s history, preserved in the distant archives of UK

    What makes this imbroglio a cause of particular concern for India is that the British Library is the principal repository of the records and holdings of the India Office. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 12, 2025 15:20 IST

    Why the UN Environment Assembly is essential to a safer, more resilient planet

    Recent UNEP data show emissions continue to rise as the impacts of global environment and climate challenges are accelerating and growing ever more extreme. We see it in record heatwaves, disappearing ecosystems, and toxins in our air, water and soil. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 11, 2025 15:59 IST

    Actor to auteur, the Raj Kapoor panorama at 100

    Kapoor’s films tackled with sensitivity and technical virtuosity a range of themes blending the profane and the sacred, modernity and tradition, wealth and hunger, power and conscience. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 11, 2025 15:59 IST

    Jayasankar Krishnamurty: Lifelong friend, academic

    A defining milestone was his selection as Agatha Harrison Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, which left a deep imprint on his intellectual journey (Kim Traynor/Wikimedia Commons)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 11, 2025 15:59 IST

    Viksit Bharat goal needs investing more in health

    Life expectancy at birth is one measure of health. India’s life-expectancy goals are ambitious but unevenly grounded in current trends. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Dec 11, 2025 15:59 IST
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