Express Opinion

The world can do little but watch how the US handles the day after in a nation of 28 million people whose sovereignty it has so brazenly breached

We either spend a decade fighting climate tariffs at WTO, or build the carbon pricing architecture that makes Indian steel the world’s cleanest and most competitive.

In time, srtificial generative intelligence will surpass human cognitive intelligence. But if, as a result, human judgment is supplanted or subverted, the pillar upon which the arc of four industrial revolutions was built would be

In FY2021-FY2025, the combined capital expenditure and loans & advances of 28 states reported a healthy 18.5 per cent CAGR, doubling to Rs 8.4 trillion

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 5, 1986.

In Beed, Mayank Gandhi floated the idea of Krishikul under the Global Vikas Trust to augment farmers’ incomes. They convinced farmers to shift from traditional crops to fruit crops. The results have been astounding.

With the GST rate cuts clearly impacting revenues, the Centre will have to cut expenditures for meeting its deficit targets.

Separate distortions and transgressions rest on a bed of entangled themes — the vigilante is empowered, governance resists accountability, law is used to bend the rule of law, democracy is undermined using the tool-kit of

If ‘narco-terrorism’ can justify bombs and the snatching of a head of state, the line between policing and war collapses — and precedents like that don’t stay in Venezuela

Late-night parliamentary sittings have a long history, with the most famous being the midnight session of August 14-15, 1947, when India marked its Independence.

We need an Opposition party that would speak up on these issues, and on the consistent and brutal attack on India’s pluralist legacy by thugs who owe allegiance to the Sangh Parivar.

The main culprits are the State, the leaders in pivotal positions, and some organisations that have been emboldened due to the patronage of the State.

A woman doesn’t truly discover herself when life finally gives her permission. She discovers herself the moment she stops waiting for it.

Such gestures matter, especially now, because they affirm a profound truth: Compassion is not weakness, solidarity does not demand agreement, and dignity cannot depend on verdicts

They should force us to confront the wider era we inhabit, where multiple powers, convinced of their civilisational missions, reach beyond their limits and discover that the world is not clay

Munda’s legacy refuses closure. It survives not only in statues or stadium names, but in everyday idioms of resistance and pride. It lives on the hockey fields of Jharkhand, where Adivasi youth continue to transform

At the close of 2025, the ‘karyakartas’ of the Hindu Raksha Dal — an outfit that is not banned, but whose members face several criminal charges — were the stars of a viral video. In

Today, universities have drifted from their core mandate, and the faculty are called upon by the state and regulators to play roles for which they were never trained

If India wants to be relevant in the emerging geopolitics, it has to be a player in the emerging geo-economics

The tragedy of India’s “dog problem” isn’t a lack of law. It’s a failure to apply it. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules already lay down a clear, evidence-based national protocol: Capture-sterilise-vaccinate-release

The Election Commission of India, which too is at the receiving end of the propaganda, has the responsibility to deliver on this front in 2026

Vodafone Idea has been in a precarious financial position. As of December 2024, its total debt was around Rs 2.3 lakh crore, comprising AGR dues and spectrum liability

The 74th Constitutional Amendment gave an expansive mandate to municipalities — from planning and land regulation to water supply, sanitation, environmental protection, and slum improvement. More than 30 years later, urban governance bears little resemblance

Two wholesale reforms are important. The first is transitioning to a nationwide market-based economic dispatch system. The second is integrating captive power plants into wholesale markets

Piqued by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signalling support for Taiwan in the event of Chinese military action, Beijing has banned the import of seafood from Japan