Newspaper editorials — Monday 31 August, 2026

If the CJP does turn into a political party, there is hardly any doubt that it will attract young voters

The new labelling is an escalation of the government’s attitude towards dissent and democracy

One living rock, shared by nations, makes its dangers a shared concern for all

India’s water future may hinge less on discovering new freshwater reserves and more on the intelligence with which the country recycles what it already has

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…

A murder trial leads to a host of questions on postpartum mental health

The pre-2020 status quo has to stay on the table as an Indian demand that will not be given up under any circumstances.

If cities price the sale of TUW to data centres appropriately, it could convert a water security threat into a measurable improvement in river and lake quality.

Problems for gig workers are piling up faster than the rate at which gig workers are increasing.

The warning will apply only to products having two of the three nutrients above the threshold level

India’s green transition isn’t short of finance but new clean-tech development mustn’t starve. The country risks spending billions of dollars deploying mature technologies while staying dependent on tech developed elsewhere.

The MIT professor is one of the world's most prominent economists arguing for a worker-centric approach to artificial intelligence (AI) development. His academic credentials are intact—and also irrelevant to the big questions he has raised.

India’s renewal of incentives for domestic cellphone production and plan for an input ecosystem represent a doubling down on a big export ambition. As an AI-robotics takeover of factories looms, local players need to both think and act g…

Is it reckless to cap the liability of investors in the age of AI agency? And why must cases of debt repayment by promoters be so perplexing—as in Essel chief Subhash Chandra’s case?

India’s infotech majors have enormous cash piles for acquisitions and are busy snapping up other businesses. But only those companies that acquire capabilities which AI cannot easily pick up can expect to revive their market performance.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s mention of a cockroach was misinterpreted by the international media. At a time of volatility in Japan’s bond and yen markets, the country’s leadership must be watchful of how its words are interp…

Constitutions do matter, no doubt, but all three thinkers, Alexis de Tocqueville, B.R. Ambedkar and Rabindranath Tagore, arrived separately at the same insight: that liberty must get embedded in civil society for democracy to succeed.

Banks and NBFCs face different market risk assessments. Credit growth outpaces deposit growth, widening the loan-to-deposit ratio. This trend may hide individual bank vulnerabilities when market cycles turn. Banks relying on non-deposit …

HDFC Bank, long regarded as a cornerstone of financial sector, is now under scrutiny for its governance and ethical practices. Recent allegations of mis-selling and troubling workplace culture raise significant concerns among stakeholder…

Meta's decision highlights challenges companies face becoming AI native. Most organizations cannot operate without human workers for now. AI integration is a subjective choice for leaders and difficult to execute. Reskilling people to wo…

Indian enterprises now prioritize data sovereignty over cost and scale in cloud procurement. New regulations and geopolitical shifts highlight the importance of data control. Data residency does not guarantee jurisdictional independence …

जीवन धारा: सुख विलासिता में नहीं, अपने भीतर ही है; लालच से बचने का सूत्र कारगर

दूसरा पहलू: उदमीराम की जांबाजी और अंग्रेजों का खूनी कोल्हू, 1857 में दिल्ली में कत्लेआम से दहशतजदा थी हुकूमत

ताशकंद में मोदी: यात्रा का अपना व्यापक क्षेत्रीय महत्व, यूरेनियम की दीर्घकालिक आपूर्ति व्यवस्था पर सहमति अहम

मुद्दा: ज्वलंत सवालों पर लंबे समय तक खामोश रहना घातक, क्या यमुना अपनी प्राकृतिक क्षमता खो चुकी है

‘फाउंटेनहेड’ पर 1949 में किंग विडोर ने करीब दो घंटे की फिल्म बनाई है। कहानी और फिल्म में कई समानता है। प्रतिभाशाली वास्तुकार नायक हॉवर्ड रोर्क (गैरी कूपर) में आत्मसम्मान और दृढ़ विश्वास में कूट-कूट कर भरा है।