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    Proactive protection lacking, US tariffs will hurt MSMEs

    opinion
    Published on Sep 4, 2025 16:31 IST
    The tariffs have had a particularly painful impact on Rajasthan. The pain is most acutely felt by smaller businesses and MSMEs that often secure loans against export orders and now face a scenario where they will be unable to repay these loans. (AFP)

    Tehran-New Delhi: New horizons for old friends

    Current geopolitical imperatives further reinforce the rationale for closer Iran-India convergence. The unprecedented developments of 2025 have shown that a multipolar world order is no longer a far-fetched idea. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 4, 2025 16:31 IST

    Reimagining education is key to future of work

    AI is helping us expand our worldviews with vast amounts of information, enabling the intersection of interests, ideas and disciplines. (HT Archiv)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 4, 2025 16:31 IST

    An India-China tango is unlikely at present

    A more normal footing for the relationship is beneficial for both countries, but that can be achieved only in a calibrated manner. (AFP Photo/Press Information Bureau (PIB))
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 3, 2025 15:39 IST

    Letters to financial inclusion, India’s postal system delivers

    The IPPB’s performance is extraordinary — deposits are now nearing <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>20,000 crore and revenue alone has grown to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2,200 crore, with profits amounting to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>134 crore. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 3, 2025 15:39 IST

    In Ola’s battery efforts, a shift in Indian innovation

    What Ola is attempting is no less ambitious, despite the constraints. It is building not just a vehicle company, but a battery-technology platform inside an ecosystem that has historically lacked the infrastructure and incentives to support deep tech. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 3, 2025 15:39 IST

    A barometer of Chinese thinking on Modi’s visit

    The idea that India is pivoting to China to spite the US is a tantalising narrative in Beijing, even though most know it’s more wishful thinking than reality. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 2, 2025 15:16 IST

    Keeping growth out of the US tariff shadow

    MSME clusters producing textiles, leather, auto components, gems and jewellery, employing millions, will be the worst hit. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 2, 2025 15:16 IST

    Jan Vishwas Bill: Towards trust-based governance

    The legislation empowers regulatory authorities to impose monetary penalties through administrative channels rather than dragging cases through criminal courts. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 2, 2025 15:16 IST

    The opportunity beyond the SCO

    The SCO summit provided Modi an opportunity to meet the leaders of China and Russia to take stock of bilateral ties. (ANI)
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 1, 2025 14:56 IST

    Mandal, market, migration: The story of Bihar’s long exile

    Migration became the state’s largest export, with workers from the state forming the backbone of construction, transport, and low-skilled urban service economies in Delhi, Punjab, Maharashtra, and the Gulf (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 1, 2025 14:56 IST

    What has prevented another World War

    What is preventing another World War? Nuclear deterrence is the biggest game-changer. The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction keeps nuclear States in check since conflict escalation comes with existential risks. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 1, 2025 14:56 IST

    India, China & US: Need for calibrated closeness

    Both India and China swear by a multipolar order, but India’s insistence that this must be based on a multipolar Asia found no echo from China. (AFP/PIB)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 1, 2025 14:56 IST

    Mind the Gap: The death and life of Nikki Bhati

    Nikki Bhati
    opinion
    Published on Sep 1, 2025 24:30 IST

    India-Japan ties need a big leap in Indo-Pacific

    The key is to translate the defence collaboration declaration’s wealth of promising ideas into tangible initiatives. (AFP)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 31, 2025 16:18 IST

    IWT in abeyance central to correcting past blunders

    India can now develop a fresh perspective keeping in mind our altered population demographics, our agriculture and irrigation needs and further accelerate the development of clean energy to meet our energy transition goals. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 31, 2025 16:18 IST

    Self-reliance is the mantra for overcoming trying times

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that a stable, pre-negotiated, and cordial relationship between the two neighbours — the two most populous countries in the world — can have a positive effect on global peace and prosperity. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 31, 2025 16:17 IST

    HistoriCity | The complicated relationship between religions and women

    An elderly woman on her way to Sabarimala Temple. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 31, 2025 11:21 IST

    Book Box | A river, alive and angry

    Is a River Alive ?
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 31, 2025 07:38 IST

    Saving climate action in the age of global fragmentation

    In South Asia, heatwaves, sea-level rise, and flash floods are lived realities for its populace. (AFP/Uttarakhand’s State Disaster Response Force (SDRF))
    opinion
    Published on Aug 30, 2025 16:13 IST

    It is no more about trade; peoples’ ties are at risk too

    The Trump Administration is also targeting the bedrock of India-US ties, people-to-people relations. Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says he wants to change the H1B visa programme, possibly affecting the 70% beneficiaries who are Indian. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 30, 2025 16:13 IST

    Mathematician who tracked down India’s maths heritage

    PP Divakaran argued that the expansion of trigonometric functions like sine and cosine and their inverses were studied by the Nila school of mathematics in Kerala before they were developed by Western mathematicians. He supported this claim with rigorous evidence. (@kvijayraghavan/X)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 30, 2025 16:13 IST

    How the wedding market perpetuates dowry culture

    Research shows that an average Indian family’s expenditure on a wedding is about three times its annual income. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 30, 2025 16:11 IST

    China’s economy needs State push, and more

    As the number of China’s young urban dwellers dips due to demographic change, the need for new housing will diminish in the coming years (AP)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 30, 2025 06:33 IST

    From Trinity to today: Turning the page on nuclear testing

    Complacency is not an option. A return to nuclear testing would almost certainly spark a dangerous arms race, one that undermines the purposes for which the United Nations was founded. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 29, 2025 15:29 IST

    Lessons for startups from real money gaming ban

    It is also heartening to witness the resilience of India’s startup ecosystem. Even in the wake of sudden bans and upheavals, gaming founders are already announcing fresh models and new plans (AFP)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 29, 2025 15:29 IST

    India’s diplomatic horizon extends beyond America

    Realistically, while engagement and strengthened ties with the US must certainly be pursued, it is imperative not to exclude other possibilities for India. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 29, 2025 15:28 IST

    History textbooks and their tryst with truth

    If there are any innovations in this new “truth-telling” exercise, they are pressed into the service of national pride. The same standard of truth-telling is not applied to Hindu kings, such as Shivaji, or Maharana Pratap, as Akbar and Aurangzeb. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 29, 2025 15:28 IST

    Measuring land with red tape

    The right to property is a constitutional right, albeit with reasonable restrictions to protect the interests of vulnerable sections such as the scheduled tribes (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 28, 2025 15:06 IST

    Flight safety regulation needs reform at the top

    The safety regulator needs to be headed by a highly experienced and technically qualified individual for its culture to change. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 28, 2025 15:06 IST
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