The country’s largest airline, IndiGo, cannot get away by simply saying that disruptions “have arisen primarily from misjudgement and planning gaps”.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 8, 1985.

The presence of a diverse political spectrum at the high table is not a courtesy to rivals but a statement of India’s democratic strength.

North India is choking, and the situation is nothing short of a gas chamber with AQI going above 400. This may lead to a brisk sale of air purifiers, pushing up the GDP growth numbers. But is this the type of GDP we want, when people can’t even breathe fresh and safe air? .

The SIR must be carried out to remove the names of all those who are dead, have moved house or have illegally entered the voters’ list.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been a vocal critic of India’s membership of the Quad and its relationship with the US. But if Moscow expects India to play cool with its relationship with China, it needs to lend the same courtesy to the India-US relationship

A new study by AARP, a non-profit support group for older Americans, shows rising loneliness among middle-aged adults. Literature has reached similar conclusions long before data did: irrespective of geography, solitude and existential unease hit hardest mid-life.

Scapegoating entire nationalities for the actions of one individual will tear families apart and deny people fleeing persecution a safe haven. The sweeping restrictions go against what the US president has himself claimed several times in the past --- he opposes only ‘illegal’ migration and supports the “legal” recruitment of foreign talent

At the heart of the LWE and its violence is a tragedy of the marginalised and the disaffected led astray, which Sonu articulated: “This experiment has not succeeded anywhere in the country... They (remaining Maoists) are shedding a lot of blood... They are not learning from those sacrifices.”

Census 2027 should enumerate caste comprehensively, with the same rigour applied to age, literacy, or occupation. Democracy requires information, even uncomfortable information

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 5, 1985.

A serious debate should be able to say that Congress is right to worry about democratic backsliding but wrong if it imagines this alone will win elections.

An old galaxy, it challenges what scientists know about the universe. That is how all great stories in science begin

Democratic negotiations and institutional maturity can help resolve many of the country’s internal issues. But Munir and the Pakistan army prefer the jackboot

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 4, 1985.

The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee is currently holding its last meeting of this year.

Announcing a date for peaking emissions will give credibility to our commitment to decarbonise. It will also help counter the criticism that India is the third-largest emitter and its emissions continue to grow

The December 3, 1985 edition is unavailable. The above stories are from December 2, 1985

Cats meow -- a form of communication used almost exclusively with humans -- more loudly, and frequently, at their owners when they are men, than when they are women

Parliament must provide the space for all those questions to be asked, so that the search for answers can begin

The NLI, to be published annually, proposes India’s first state-wise benchmarking system to measure the productivity, transparency, and innovation of state assemblies and legislative councils. The NLI will incentivise healthy competition among states.

Before this goes to court, the Government should rescind this order

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 2, 1985.

The linguistic elevation offers a portrait of the modern information ecosystem that is increasingly shaped by emotional manipulation.