At best, it is superfluous and at worst, a blunt instrument in the hands of an overzealous prosecutorial machinery

The verdict now places the onus on the government to make a reasoned selection of projects that may be excused from the requirement of environmental clearance

The tragic image of lonely young Punch clutching his doll, eyes exuding a fear and insecurity that so many human beings can identify with, made him a viral sensation.

The National Medical Commission must view inclusivity not as a compliance exercise prompted by litigation but as an ongoing commitment.

The protests must be read as an appeal to institutions, to listen and respond, and to search for solutions. The movement on the street has made itself heard. Now Parliament must take on the hard and patient work of redesigning, correcting and fine-tuning educational structures and processes.

Higashino’s appeal lay not just in the elegance of his solutions, remarkable though they often were, but in the fact that he trusted his readers — to grapple with ambiguity, to ask difficult questions.

Caught between under-regulation and over-enforcement, and between two governments, the students stand to lose the most

Trust is central to the banking system. It needs to be nurtured

For the last decade, India has simply pencilled in Mirabai's name under the gold-medal column at the CWG. That level of sustained excellence deserves greater appreciation than the medal itself.

With a new generation of Americans coming of age, Israel no longer commands the instinctive public backing it once enjoyed

The government must be careful to eschew the prevarication that followed the submission of the K Radhakrishnan committee report in 2024

Given the country’s burden of infectious disease, antibiotics will remain indispensable. Addressing the antimicrobial resistance problem must, thus, begin with replacing quick-fix prescriptions with evidence-based care

Even amid Gilmour's riffs, Roger Waters’ words, Richard Wright's keys, Parry's saxophone held its own with a rare artistry and the ability to complete a masterpiece without ever needing to stand at its centre

Delhi should support the US-Saudi agreement, underwritten by ironclad non-proliferation safeguards, and offer assistance to Riyadh’s civilian nuclear programme. India should also encourage Saudis to join the Abraham Accords while continuing to support a credible political settlement for Palestine

India's young need a more spacious system, with institutions that help them spread their wings and pursue opportunities, while functioning transparently. Over the past days and weeks, the young have made it possible for such a process to begin; they have set the stage

Whatever Musk and Grok may come up with will be as much a product of the 2020s and their culture-war preoccupations as Nolan’s interpretation

The Brahmaputra Board has long been hampered by staff shortages and inadequate technical capacity. With extreme weather becoming more frequent, the Centre and state governments need to reinvigorate the agency

In a clash between unequals, Court must ensure that the powerful state does not weaponise the rulebook to subdue the powerless citizen.

Wang is part of a growing tribe of blue-collar workers in China who have turned to writing to make sense of their hardscrabble lives.

Burnham enters office with a measure of goodwill, as seen in Labour’s polling bounce; he will have to make full use of it.

Even though the government has received generous mandates since 2014, its commitment to education has been far less visible than the energy and political capital it has invested in advancing its chosen cultural projects.

With her coaching situation stable after many years, and a Top 10 list in women’s singles at its weakest in decades, except for the near-unbeatable An Se-young, Sindhu senses an opportunity

More than 10 per cent of the world’s seafarers are Indian. When merchant ships become targets, it is not only seafarers who are at risk, but the maritime order that has long kept the world’s commerce afloat

Shifting commercial launches to private players would free ISRO to focus on deep-space exploration missions such as Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan. That said, ISRO’s handholding role cannot be discounted