Express Opinion

The Supreme Court has long stood as the ultimate guardian of India’s environmental legacy, a role that this judgment now risks diluting

The ISA proved to be a diplomatic win for India in a multipolar world to forge a new treaty-based international organisation. India not only reached out to “solar-rich” developing countries, but actively brought on board

What Selvaraj ultimately captures is a simple but unsettling truth: Love, in such worlds, is not merely emotional sustenance but a survival strategy

The plan would identify permissible areas for mining, ecologically sensitive areas, and core areas only after incorporating a thorough analysis of the cumulative environmental impacts and include post-mining restoration and rehabilitation measures

Despite appearances, the ‘MAGA 2.0’ administration is governed by personality-driven whims rather than systematic process, making US policy highly unpredictable and reactive

As temperatures rise across India and South Asia, heatwaves are triggering crop failures, humanitarian disasters, and a growing crisis of heat-related illness

As the world leaves the Compute Era and enters the Diffusion Era, India – its companies, its institutions and governments – must ask three questions

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 24, 1985.

Applied to electoral rolls, completeness demands that no eligible citizen is disenfranchised, whereas soundness demands that no ineligible person is included. These goals often come into tension in real-world systems.

Liability remains politically contentious. If something goes wrong, who pays, how much, and how quickly do victims get compensated? India’s 2010 law carried a strong moral impulse, shaped by the experience of the Bhopal gas

Since there was no opportunity for a meaningful discussion on the Bill before its passage, it is necessary to seriously engage with the clarifications and response of Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan in this

Nearly two centuries since his Minute, if Macaulay were to revisit India, he would be mostly disappointed to find that major sections of elites and masses from India have responded to his plea for colonising

The range of appropriate names runs the gamut from flowers and insects to heroes and kings. Politicians, too, have found a place in this nomenclatural biome, particularly in the US.

The India-New Zealand agreement provides for duty-free access for all Indian exports.

Justice was important in the Akhlaq case, therefore, not just for a measure of closure for the victim's family, but also for social healing.

An award season favourite and his first film since his 2022 imprisonment, the film offers no easy answers or catharsis, but remains resolutely humane

Two decades after elimination was announced, persistent child cases reveal ongoing transmission, late detection, and critical gaps in India’s leprosy control strategy

From agrarian reform and rural–urban inequality to social justice and sustainability, Charan Singh’s ideas offer urgent lessons for contemporary India

The choice before India is clear: Continue with fragmented welfare expansion that erodes fiscal health, or adopt a national framework that balances compassion with prudence, ensuring equity, stability, and sustainability

Although the CJI’s oral remarks are not legally binding, they risk shaping national public opinion in a harmful way and may further embolden the current regime to treat brutally those it categorises as “infiltrators/ghuspaithiya”

One can debate whether an Islamic society is the solution to Bangladesh’s challenges surrounding development and identity, but blaming India is certainly not

The actor-writer-director, 69, who died last week, combined his rapier wit and astuteness with remarkable productivity, writing and acting in over 200 films

Old values still matter, but hard work, patience and perseverance can’t be taught through fake deprivation in a world where abundance is real

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 23, 1985.

The Yunus government, if it wants to maintain a modicum of credibility, must be seen to calm the situation rather than fanning the flames, as it has done over the last year