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muslim population
June 26, 2024 10:06 IST

According to the 2011 Census of India, the growth rate of the Muslim population was higher than the Hindu population. The controversy surrounding this interpretation obscured that the gap between the two had significantly reduced between 2001 and 2011.

Does India really need stocking limits on wheat?
June 26, 2024 07:33 IST

As the government reinstates cereal control policy, record output figures speak a different truth

andaman islands
June 26, 2024 10:04 IST

As plans for holistic development of the Nicobar Islands emerge, environmental concerns should not be ignored

GI tag for Dodol: Moving beyond the authenticity debate
June 26, 2024 07:15 IST

Food as a product is served well by things like GI tags, but food as culture needs a wider lens

Tamil Nadu hooch deaths
June 25, 2024 07:37 IST

The deaths do not point only to administrative failures. They speak of a social welfare deficit.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 25, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
June 25, 2024 09:41 IST

Following the arrest of Shiv Sena leader, Madhukar Sarpotdar under the NSA, the army was deployed in several sensitive areas across Bombay, on June 24.

The Key is in Paris
June 25, 2024 07:40 IST

They managed to save an iconic, experimental theatre space. In the age of billion-dollar film budgets, it's a worthy French resistance.

A tax less taxing
June 25, 2024 07:32 IST

The council's moves to ease compliance burden, reduce litigation is welcome. It has much more work to do.

Sheikh Hasina, Narendra Modi, India-Bangladesh ties: A shared vision
June 24, 2024 08:14 IST

The two countries’ resolve to strengthen connectivity, trade and defence links augurs well for stability in Indian Ocean and wider Indo-Pacific regions.

narendra modi
June 24, 2024 23:01 IST

Some formal bonhomie is likely. But, in realm of actual policies and use of state power, a substantive change is unlikely.

Despite a rocky start, with the monsoon comes a season of chances
June 24, 2024 07:31 IST

Rainfall deficit in June is likely to be made up. Government should plan ahead, free agriculture from curbs

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 24, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
June 24, 2024 07:08 IST

The Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, paid a day’s visit to Amritsar city, offered prayers at Harmandar Sahib in the Golden Temple.

Jane Fonda, Jane Fonda workout, swimming, swimming pools, ageism, editorial, Indian express, opinion news, indian express editorial
June 23, 2024 14:35 IST

The water has just washed away every excuse we women make to deny ourselves the right to unalloyed fun. The guilt of ageism is really on us.

higher education, Higher Education Reforms, NET cancelled, net ug cancel, NEET UG, UGC-NET, NEET UG 2024, NEET UG, NEET UG 2024, CSIR-UGC NET exam, National Testing Agency, neet cancel news, neet paper leak, neet sc news, neet ug news, cancel neet paper leak, neet ug paper leak 2024 news,
June 23, 2024 18:50 IST

It is hard to understand why Modi, with his ‘mission’ to make India a Vishvaguru again, has done so little to urge his chief ministers to improve government schools in BJP states.

dalit community, Dalit atrocities, isolated Dalit voices, Savarna parties, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), Prakash Ambedkar, editorial, Indian express, opinion news, indian express editorial
June 23, 2024 10:07 IST

Though attachment to the Ambedkar family lineage still draws the rural masses, the people I have interacted with in political circles and urban voters have expressed dismay over Mayawati and Prakash Ambedkar’s politics and nature of interactions.

Opposition, P Chidambaram, Lok Sabha Election Results 2024, Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, job creation, editorial, Indian express, opinion news, indian express editorial
June 23, 2024 10:17 IST

The LS elections of 2024 have given an opportunity to both the Treasury and the Opposition to revive the great traditions of Parliament. Not just the form but the substance of a parliamentary democracy.

diljit dosanjh
June 22, 2024 23:49 IST

Dosanjh embodies a Punjabiyat that is less controversial — but no less deep

Patna High Court, Nitish Kumar, Nitish Kumar government, bihar, quota order, OBC, EBC, SC and ST communities, editorial, Indian express, opinion news, indian express editorial
June 21, 2024 23:54 IST

About 50 per cent of Bihar's workforce is involved in agriculture, which contributes less than 25 per cent of the state's GDP. The big challenge for the state is to reduce the dependency on farms by drawing investments in more productive sectors

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, WOMAD Festival, Real World Records, Chain of Light, editorial, Indian express, opinion news, indian express editorial
June 21, 2024 23:50 IST

‘Chain of Light’ could be a conduit between the past and present, nudging a world riven with conflicts. This is a time when the world needs the Sufi message in Khan’s sublime voice more than ever before

air pollution, air pollution level, Delhi air pollution, Urban air pollution, aqi, State of Global Air Report, Indian express news, current affairs
June 21, 2024 23:52 IST

India has the most number of children under the age of five dying due to air pollution. With their their body’s defence mechanisms still relatively weak, exposure to pollution sets them up for ailments like asthma, upper respiratory tract infection, childhood leukaemia and high blood pressure

Indira Gandhi, Indo-Pak Arms Talks, Normalcy In Punjab, Judges’ Pension Hike, Orissa’s Bridge feud, Indian express news, current affairs
June 21, 2024 23:45 IST

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi does not rule out the possibility of India having a discussion with Pakistan over arms smuggling.

Sleep advisors for India’s Olympic contingent show: You snooze, you win
June 20, 2024 23:29 IST

There are enough studies to back the importance of sleep for such functions as memory formation, processing of ideas and decision-making

Proposal for warning labels on social media is timely, but only the first step
June 20, 2024 23:28 IST

Studies have established a correlation between social-media usage and the possibility of mental-health afflictions

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 21, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
June 21, 2024 04:32 IST

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 21, 1984, Forty Years Ago.

NEET-NET controversy: Examine the exam
June 20, 2024 23:22 IST

Cancellation of NET, controversy over NEET, must lead to a larger reckoning. But first, responsibility must be fixed

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