Express Opinion

Land use beyond the maintenance of intergenerational plantation work is an important consideration for the government if it truly wishes to engage with tea workers' rights and render justice to the historical oppression

His contributions transformed biology, but omissions, biases, and scientific rivalries continue to shape how we tell the story of DNA

Across the world, antibiotics are viewed as curative medicines — to be used only when truly necessary. In India, they tend to be used preventively, routinely prescribed for viral infections that the human body is

India has now reached a moment where identity infrastructure outpaces identity philosophy. Documentation should serve recognition, not substitute for it

Shared geography and interconnected ecosystems make the region highly vulnerable, but also uniquely positioned to act collectively.

The global situation is very uncertain and it’s better to keep policy ammunition ready to support growth as required. This becomes specifically critical at a time when scope of further fiscal stimulus is limited.

The EC must pause, reflect and reform. It must immediately halt this exercise that bears no similarity to a proper and legitimate 'SIR'.

Think of ‘Game of Thrones’. The mechanical map unfurling, Ramin Djawadi’s score climbing note by note, dread and awe rising in equal measure. It was a prelude, a promise, a mood.

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.

Stardom can make people larger than life. Dharmendra, paradoxically, became larger by remaining human.

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.

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.

Indian secularism has only demanded that religion be kept separate from the state such that our supreme political identity was ‘Indian’

Bring more players in distribution. It will help weed out inefficiencies in the system – in billing, collection, labour costs

Creating court environments that are truly responsive to women’s needs requires not just policy reforms, but also a process of ground-level introspection that reconsiders the gendered culture of the justice system itself.

To put it bluntly, the government does not believe that a vibrant and debate-rich Parliament will strengthen democracy. The government, led by Mr Modi, is implacably opposed to dialogue, discussion and debate

The story of Rai and Ekka is relevant again. Parliament has constituted a committee of its MPs to scrutinise the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill that provides for the removal of the PM/CMs and ministers if

We may have benefitted from buying cheap Russian oil and buying Russian weapons, but surely these things can be done without welcoming Putin as a hero at a time when he is shunned by countries

It strains credulity that the dominant market leader failed to plan for such a foreseeable outcome

Call it reticence or refusal; Rama Duwaji not slipping into the ceremonial template actually sits well within a spectrum where political wives negotiate visibility, often through emotional, narrative or reputational labour, by dodging, distracting, doubling

He believed in cultural commonwealth, and that India must leverage its deep cultural impact across the region

Verstappen’s ability to win races despite being in average machinery, to complete overtakes in the tiniest of margins, and shave crucial milliseconds off his qualifying laps has him fighting for a championship in which he

ISI’s strength has always been its independence: An environment where statisticians, economists, and mathematical thinkers could work free of bureaucratic interference. That is now under serious threat