Bills seeking to remove ministers facing criminal charges are vulnerable to misuse, can serve partisan interests

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 20, 1985.

In order to truly make doubles matter again, the bodies in charge of the game will have to emphasise its significance as a genuine sporting spectacle and retain its special character.

Detailed maps of cloudburst-prone zones that use historical data and satellite imagery could guide land-use plans. It's an imperative that cannot be postponed.

The prospect of closer US-Russia ties, at least for the remainder of Trump’s term, remains troubling not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe. It is encouraging that Putin and Zelenskyy may finally sit in the same room to negotiate an end to the bloodshed.

If the ECI truly believes ‘every vote matters’, it must prove it by showing every voter it has added — not just every name it has removed, and every duplicate voter it has detected.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 19, 1985.

Formalising slang coined by Gen Z and Gen Alpha by adding it to the dictionary could end up ensuring its obsolescence

As the PM reminded us, the world is watching an ancient civilisation transform into a modern power — not by abandoning its roots but by drawing strength from them

The move is welcome. Revenue implications need to be examined, and consensus with states forged

The Election Commission faces many, it undermines itself in the shrill and adversarial way it responds to them

The world’s fourth-largest economy, with a hugely successful Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), can surely find the resources and technical solutions to care for the bezubaan (voiceless) denizens of Delhi and beyond

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 18, 1985.

While progress has been faster than what was envisaged by the Finance Commission, the path of fiscal consolidation must continue to be adhered to

His masterpiece, 'After Virtue', published in 1981, anticipates many of the pathologies of modern political life.

A thaw in US-Russia relations tends to widen India’s geopolitical space. Yet Delhi faces an immediate challenge: Trump’s threat of secondary tariffs on Indian purchases of Russian oil

The way we spend time beyond duty is deeply personal — and should remain so. Leisure, when free from scrutiny, is not an innate right, but something hard-won, often claimed with resistance.

Given the crude birth rate of Bihar, the number of persons who had, since the elections to the Lok Sabha in 2024, attained the age of 18 would certainly run into a few lakhs. Have they been included? The ECI did not respond, and nobody knows

Imagine preparing for the first Test to be played by your country and not knowing till after 4 am on the day of the match — less than eight hours before the toss — who your captain would be. This was the crisis Indian cricket found itself facing as the clock ticked down to the most important moment in the history of Indian cricket.

AI-generated videos are gaining popularity. For a platform that grew on human creativity, this does not bode well

The SC order recognises the complexity of the exercise, both in scale and due to its constricted timelines in the poll-bound state

PM’s call for reform and self-reliance struck the right note; the spectre of the ‘intruder’ one of disquiet

The six-year-old Assam problem was resolved with comprehensive but separate agreements calling for disenfranchisement of foreign nationals who entered the state between January 1, 1966 and March 24, 1971, and the resignation of the Saikia government.

More than a social media phenomenon, the 'claw grip' trend shows how a woman makes room for herself in a world that often ignores her needs