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Saving the saviour: the Himalayas need us

Protecting the Third Pole requires moving faster than traditional climate diplomacy often allows. Coalitions of the willing can connect science, finance, and policy in ways that accelerate action. (HT Archive)
Published on Jun 5, 2026 15:08 IST

What the NFHS data doesn't tell us anymore

As with many things about modern India, the reliance on surveys to measure routine health indicators originates in colonial India. As a result, independent India inherited a formidable machinery for counting the living once a decade, but with a near-absent record of how they were born, sickened, and died. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo)
Published on Jun 5, 2026 08:52 IST

Let’s make critical minerals deal work

China’s monopoly lies in the processing stage of the value chain. Opening new mines elsewhere will not sufficiently dent this. (Getty Images)
Updated on Jun 4, 2026 15:39 IST

Trump can’t force the Abraham Accords

The more Trump presses coercive normalisation, the more he risks discrediting the instrument he regards as his foreign policy legacy. (Reuters)
Published on Jun 3, 2026 15:23 IST