Newspaper editorials — Wednesday 22 July, 2026

Domestic giving, not foreign funding, is what will define India’s philanthropic future

Young Indians still want families, but the conditions they seek reveal their aspirations, anxieties, and changing realities

A flawed SIR should not be the basis for distribution of benefits

Andy Burnham cannot deliver for the U.K. if he remains in survival mode

In the days following the Belgium-US match, I cornered Fifa president Gianni Infantino at the Waldorf Astoria, a luxury hotel in Manhattan, with a simple question: “Following the Folarin Balogun case, will you resign?” I...

In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis , protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a cockroach. His family is horrified not by the transformation, but the prospect of his sheer unemployability. In India, cockroaches –...

By GS Tripathi Anxiety is an integral part of human experience. While it may not seem particularly harmful at first, repeated anxiety can lead to serious complications. It weakens mental fortitude. Its proper management can...

Tech progress cannot come at the cost of creators’ rights It’s a historic first. A US federal judge approved a $1.5bn settlement in a class-action suit against Anthropic, over its use of copyrighted books to...

It is in the State’s own interest that litigation should end, fast and durably when the police crosses the t’s and dots the i’s with respect to paperwork.

The next phase is about ensuring that people & wildlife can thrive together in a rapidly changing landscape. India can offer such a model to the world.

If AI inference runs on Indian GPUs in an Indian data centre, the data pipeline is entirely domestic.

Trump launched his war with Iran, upending Gulf business models. It is hard for Arab states to build billion-dollar data centres filled with American chips when Iranian missiles are falling. Middle Eastern partners are now losing faith i…

An academic experiment involving Agentic AI placed under unfair work conditions has been quite revelatory. While AI isn’t sentient, its responses reveal human expression down the ages. And yes, our minds are shaped by the material condit…

The UK’s new prime minister has made a deft choice in the face of a fiscal challenge. Will John Healey's reputation for fiscal caution help contain bond-market anxiety over the government's big promises?

Young workers in sectors where jobs are most exposed to an AI takeover have begun to sing the proverbial song of canaries. India must heed a global statement on such risks issued by top economists, Nobel laureates included.

Decision-making presents challenges due to overwhelming choices and the fear of regret. Humans often face an anguish of freedom when choosing between attractive options. Krishn advised Arjun to embrace his duty and focus on moral respons…

India's space sector witnessed significant private and public sector developments recently. Skyroot Aerospace launched the nation's first privately built rocket, Vikram-1. Concurrently, about one hundred scientists resigned from ISRO, In…

India's vast scale and diversity present unique AI challenges. Technology must understand context, intent, and human behavior at extraordinary levels. Generative AI is shifting from capability demonstration to deriving transformational i…

फिल्म बनाना एक खर्चीला काम है, इसके लिए पैसा चाहिए, लेकिन उससे भी बढ़ कर फ़िल्म बनाने केलिए जुनून चाहिए। पैसा न मिले तो भी जुनून के चलते फ़िल्म बनाई जा सकती है, न केवल फ़िल्म बनाई जा सकती है, वरन सर्वोत्तम निर्देशक का राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार जीता…

वर्ष 2000 में उत्तराखंड राज्य गठन के समय सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालयों में 11.20 लाख विद्यार्थी थे, जो 2025-26 तक घटकर लगभग ढाई लाख रह गए।

ब्रिटिश शासन के दौरान भारतीय शिक्षा व्यवस्था में व्यापक परिवर्तन प्रारंभ हुए। 2 फरवरी 1835 को लॉर्ड थॉमस बैबिंगटन मैकाले ने अपना प्रसिद्ध 'मिनट ऑन इंडियन एजुकेशन' प्रस्तुत किया।

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