Express Opinion

NASA is launching a test mission to alter path of an asteroid. Doomsday movies of ’90s underestimated scientists.

Parliament must tighten the framework, and move quickly to usher in a data protection architecture in India.

The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee decided to join hands with the Congress-I for forming an alternative Government in the “exceptional circumstances’’ prevailing in the state.

This anthropocentric worldview — where the most magnificent animals are uprooted from their homes and habitats to be turned into playthings of human needs — is fortunately on its way out.

India must use the leverage and resources it has in its immediate neighbourhood as well as work with other concerned powers — such as members of the Quad — to ensure a rules-based order in

The absence of credible data on the migrant workforce, the inability to identify them quickly enough, meant that little policy support could be extended to this section during a period of acute economic distress.

Aditya Bhol writes: As frontline workers during the pandemic, they faced great risks. The second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission must focus on their concerns

C Raja Mohan writes: It is trying to assert its primacy in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region while pushing out the US and India.

Manraj Grewal Sharma writes: It has thrown light on the crisis in agriculture, and made farmers aware. State, unions must tap the energy, build new future

Akhilesh Mishra writes: It was done to thwart those who were using the protests as a ruse to sow discord.

Swagata Raha writes: In overturning two Bombay HC judgments, the court has rejected a narrow interpretation of sexual assault against children.

The Maharashtra government gave the 9,000 subordinate striking engineers of the State Electricity Board an ultimatum to resume duty within 24 hours or “face the consequences”.

An upsurge of social conservatism is visible in Kerala even as old shibboleths about gender, family, and marriage are challenged by a generation less burdened by custom and tradition.

The track record does not inspire confidence that, if wrongdoing is established, those responsible for this operation will be brought to book.

Nasir Khuehami writes: Arbitrary sedition and UAPA cases against Kashmiri students must be withdrawn

Sajid Farid Shapoo writes: While Beijing’s pursuit of hypersonic missiles is neither new nor surprising, the recent tests could spur a deadly arms race between nuclear powers

C Rangarajan, B Sambamurthy write: Despite various attempts to create an efficient framework for resolving bad loans, poor ecosystem and legal delays frustrate many of these initiatives.

Ajay Vir Jakhar writes: Process will need involvement of all parties, especially those opposed to government’s ideas

Nisha Biswal writes: Like their growing cultural and strategic alignment, better trade partnership will help the two nations better navigate post-pandemic landscape.

Shalini Langer writes: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's attempts to rouse them did not really draw a response, and the “Suno Draupadi” poem drifted away without creating waves, same as the river lapping behind her.

Coomi Kapoor writes: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is keen to pacify Mamata Banerjee, fearing the Trinamool Congress is nibbling into the Congress vote share outside West Bengal. But Banerjee is in no mood to respond.

Tavleen Singh writes: PM Modi showed that he was a bigger man than he has been given credit for. He showed that he was ready to acknowledge that the will of the people is greater

P Chidambaram writes: Hinduism does not have One Church, One Pope, One Prophet, One Holy Book or One Ritual. There are many of each, and a Hindu is free to choose among the many or

Ghanshyam Shah writes: When we talk about vegetarianism and Gujarat, we are really talking about a very small section of society, whose world view is transferred and imposed, and later gains popularity and spreads.

With the PM promising that laws which began as an ordinance will be laid to rest in Parliament, it’s a good day for democracy.