Newspaper editorials — Friday 28 August, 2026

A handful of pilfered fruit and a lesson from Phuphee about being fully seen, and loved

Fire accidents in ICUs need better and more evacuation facilities

Natural outbursts in hilly terrain are rising amid climate change

Delimitation, federal fairness and women’s representation can all be achieved without enlarging the Lok Sabha

Census authorities should explain the rationale of new entries in the questionnaire India’s first census under the Raj asked 17 questions. The ongoing 16th Census will ask 40. That’s not a bad thing because data...

Nodal testing agency is fast losing legitimacy. UGC-NET’s exam issues were sheer incompetence NTA is becoming a burlesque act. The latest fiasco – three papers of UGC-NET, the qualifying test to teach in colleges, and...

India sits on a conservatively estimated 35,000 tonnes of gold, valued at well over 115% of GDP. We are the only country in the world with this distinction, yet we behave like Kasturi Mrig –...

Assam’s floods are often described as inevitable. From a civil engineer’s perspective, that is an incomplete diagnosis. Brahmaputra and its tributaries will overflow during extreme monsoon events, but flooding becomes a disaster when int…

The shift from a rules-based world order to an increasingly transactional paradigm means there are major threats for business-as-usual

Enforcement requires the State to find bad behaviour whereas incentives give people a reason to demonstrate good behaviour

One of the biggest challenges before our mineral sector is not the absence of resources, but the gap between available technology and its large-scale deployment

The country's lax labelling of packages has provoked calls for boldface health warnings. While the rules clearly need to be stiffer, they mustn’t squash the liberty of marketers either. Here’s how rule-makers could strike an optimal bala…

While India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been a resounding success, it’s still crypto that holds currency experts agog—Bitcoin’s rebellious pitch in particular. As for the future of authorized money, RBI’s e-rupee is a good bet…

Defence offset obligations are largely unfulfilled, prompting a policy review. New defence acquisition procedures replace offsets with indigenous content mandates. This shift impacts private sector defence exports which previously benefi…

A devastating flash flood struck Nepal's Rasuwa district, causing significant loss of life and missing persons. Hundreds of Indian pilgrims were among those missing after the disaster hit the Kailash Mansarovar route. This flood, origina…

Canada faces a trade war with the United States after imposing significant tariffs. Prime Minister Mark Carney stated Canada was attacked and retaliated accordingly. This conflict highlights Canada's deep economic dependence on its south…

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh received his seventeenth furlough after a 2017 rape conviction. He has spent 435 days outside prison since his sentencing. Haryana's law allows furlough for good conduct and rehabilitation incentives. However, the…

ब्रिक्स शिखर सम्मेलन में शामिल होने के लिए जिनपिंग भारत आने वाले हैं। ब्रिक्स के बहाने नरेंद्र मोदी और जिनपिंग में द्विपक्षीय वार्ता हो सकती है। इससे पहले शंघाई शिखर सम्मेलन के दौरान दोनों की मुलाकात लगभग तय है।

रक्षाबंधन को लेकर हमारे यहां कई कथाएं सुनाई जाती हैं। अलग-अलग जगहों पर इनके रूप भी अलग मिलते हैं, लेकिन इन सभी में एक बात समान है, रक्षा और अपनापन।

राखी केवल धागा नहीं है: इस बंधन को अपने आचरण में उतारना ही वास्तविक अर्थ, कलाई पर बंधी राखी के मायने समझना अहम

दूसरी क्रांति का वक्त: 20वीं सदी में भारत ने भुखमरी को हराया था, अब क्लीन रिवोल्यूशन का बिगुल फूंकने का समय