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    Indian industry must wake up to new order

    opinion
    Published on Aug 28, 2026 24:45 IST
    Indian industry must shed its complacence and spend more in research and development.

    When regulations go beyond bigger sticks

    A rule backed only by the threat of punishment works only if people believe they will be caught. Where enforcement is infrequent, the rational response may be to ignore the rule if the cost of complying is greater than the perceived chance of being punished.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 28, 2026 24:44 IST

    States don’t lose from new changes to the mining law

    India holds over 1,500 mineral blocks identified for auction and development, yet only a fraction are currently operational, indicating a large untapped potential for production expansion and value creation.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 28, 2026 24:44 IST

    Death penalty, not execution method, is the real question

    The apex court noted that death by hanging serves no restorative purpose. The reluctance to acknowledge that a painless death is an essential component of the Right to Life creates a vacuum where the State’s power to punish overrides the individual’s right to dignity.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 27, 2026 24:37 IST

    Entrepreneurs on Indian streets are the future of AI

    AI doesn’t just make experts more productive, it lets people find routes around the absence of experts.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 27, 2026 24:29 IST

    Three thresholds for census data collection

    The census is a vital tool for policy formulation and planning. Without good quality aggregate data, governments and administrative agencies often end up working blind.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 27, 2026 24:27 IST

    When clickbait poses as genuine devotion

    No influencer, temple, or foundation may lay claim to a holy person. If they belong anywhere, it is as much to the hungry man standing outside a hospital as to a devotee praying in front of their photo. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 26, 2026 15:29 IST

    Homeland for Sindhis now exists only in memories

    Sindh remained relatively calm during the initial months of the Partition. Large-scale violence did not erupt there until early 1948.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 26, 2026 02:13 IST

    Beijing-Islamabad tango in West Asia mediation

    If Pakistan remains accountable at every step, the failures will be its own. If it succeeds, the paper trail created by Beijing and Islamabad ensures the success can be jointly claimed.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 26, 2026 02:07 IST

    H-1B’s death should cheer Indians and Americans

    If US tech companies continue eliminating jobs after foreign hiring ends, American politicians will no longer be able to blame Indians.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 26, 2026 02:14 IST

    Activist officers are fine, but steady action brings change

    For decades, this country absorbed filth in food as its own standard until the law against it read like a foreign document. It has taken an officer willing to be widely disliked to make us look
    opinion
    Published on Aug 25, 2026 01:51 IST

    Strict enforcement cannot bridge institutional gaps

    India is a country where the majority survives on natural immunity acquired to withstand the microbes in tap water, often due to the confluence of sewage-pipe contents and treated water deemed fit for human consumption.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 25, 2026 01:48 IST

    Can AI clean India’s air? Only with the basics right

    Air quality is a national problem. AI models and applications to better manage it should be considered a priority.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 25, 2026 01:47 IST

    Trade deals are key to the saptadhara vision

    The EU-India agreement, concluded in January after talks spanning nearly two decades, dwarfs the other in scale, with tariff reductions across most goods lines, providing access to a joint market of almost two billion consumers.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 24, 2026 01:22 IST

    Gen Z to Gen Alpha, what explains the discontent?

    If we look closely at the undercurrents of these protests, we will find two triggers — education and employment.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 24, 2026 03:22 IST

    The riddle of judicial relief for Imran Khan

    The 18th Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution curtailed the role of the federal government. Khan is believed to be amenable to repealing it.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 24, 2026 01:22 IST

    India’s space leaps show its self-assured momentum

    India’s space ambitions have skyrocketed, not only among players but also among citizens who have come to associate a particular pride on the global stage with the country’s space capabilities.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 23, 2026 08:58 IST

    Growing poverty of a once-rich language

    Instead of rejoicing in the richness English offers, we’ve all dumbed down and happily settled for the limited range of sms-speak.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 23, 2026 08:52 IST

    Poor policy gives a good biofuel bad rep

    The government ought to carefully weigh its current ethanol incentive structure, which is tilted towards two water-guzzling crops: sugarcane and rice.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 23, 2026 08:52 IST

    A double burden for women in dengue season

    Almost 70% of community health workers are women who work at risk of contracting diseases themselves to deliver care. Yet, this labour is rarely acknowledged or paid adequately.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 23, 2026 08:53 IST

    Democratic transmission of street-to-statute is breaking

    Streets are the spaces where citizens without wealth or privileged access make invisible grievances politically visible. The danger is not that citizens bypass Parliament but that Parliament fails to absorb what they say.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

    A new playbook for sports governance

    Cricket’s commercial success is best read as a demonstration of what strong governance, broadcast innovation, and investor confidence can do for a sport.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

    The promise and peril of the global city in our times

    In a rapidly urbanising world, a city that fails to address human needs risks becoming not a great metropolis but a necropolis.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:43 IST

    Opinion: What's the price a soldier pays for your “taxes”?

    The woman who argued with the Indian Army officers.
    trips tours
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 04:04 IST

    IndiGo’s transition plan has one risk too many: ‘Unrealistic ambitions’

    With a new CEO, HR chief, chief financial officer, and chief of strategy, among others, a big new challenge at this stage might be biting off more than it can chew.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

    All of us should have the right to age with dignity

    It is often said that India will grow old before it grows rich. The real question is whether it can afford to grow old before it builds the guardrails for dignified ageing.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

    Focus on ‘greatness’ to Iran deal: Trump may escape the consequences of his mess

    In the past, a president who showed so little concern for the welfare of the American people would pay a price in the mid-term elections.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:23 IST

    The AI race: can India turn sunlight into intelligence?

    India has plentiful solar potential, and it is already putting it to use. But that is not sufficient since the sun shines only during the day. Investing in energy storage at scale could turn India’s daytime solar glut into a continuous baseload for AI data centers. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 02:30 IST

    India’s photographic identity: Who gets to tell this tale?

    The test is not whether a picture is well composed. It is whether you are actually interested in telling something through it, or only about making your presence felt. A ladder left lying flat against a soot-blackened wall, something small and dried caught between its rungs, is not the kind of photograph anyone posts under a festival’s name. It asks nothing of the viewer except to notice it was there.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST

    Need to root public health education in Indian realities

    Public health functions broadly include health surveillance, protection, promotion, planning, regulation, services organisation, delivery, and evaluation, and requires a wide gamut of workforce trained in public health nutrition, occupational and environmental health, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and management, informatics, social sciences, economics, and policy analysis. (Photo for representation)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST
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