Newspaper editorials — Friday 4 September, 2026

A growing cohort of India’s policewomen on screen, addressed as ‘Madam Sir’, fight crime but must still keep patriarchy comfortable

India’s Gen Z is gaining political attention, but is yet to consolidate into a viable electoral bloc

Newborn care in India must combine safer, decongested neonatal units with strengthened home-based support

The relief granted to the Gen Z protesters must not stop with them

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 problem is not simply that nuclear power is presently expensive. It is that the financial ecosystem required to support such projects has yet to evolve

The SHANTI Act is a vital step forward, but the real work now moves to building the ecosystems around new nuclear power technologies

The 7.8% Q1 growth in a world in turmoil is not enough to satisfy the sceptics. We should ignore the noise and carry on with reskilling, reform and growth

Inner contemplation and social cooperation may simply be two expressions of a common evolutionary inheritance for internal and external stability

While platforms like Spotify earlier avoided making rules around music generated using AI, many music streaming services are now recognizing that many listeners want to know if they’re being served AI-made tracks. Such listeners would be…

Be it Amartya Sen’s tackle of Arrow’s impossibility theorem on social choice or India’s fuzzy-logic position on a macro trilemma in the face of a dollar in-surge, what cannot be done can also get minds whirring. It’s why all eyes are on …

A flare-up of war in West Asia has shaken oil, bond and other markets again, but, curiously, gold prices have slid amid rising uncertainty. Are the dynamics that gave gold its spectacular global bull run shifting?

Nepal seeks climate justice and compensation from industrial emitters for a recent disaster. Scientific analysis suggests the event was primarily a geological hazard, not solely climate change. The article highlights inadequate infrastru…

पढ़ाई का दबाव, करियर की चिंता, नौकरी की प्रतिस्पर्धा, सोशल मीडिया का प्रभाव, रिश्तों की उलझन और हर समय दूसरों से आगे निकलने की बेचैनी, ये सब आज के युवाओं के जीवन का हिस्सा हैं।

जीवन धारा: कृष्ण जीवन की सभी कलाओं में माहिर हैं, साथ जाने का रास्ता चुनने पर शुरुआत में ही अहंकार छोड़ना होगा

मुद्दा: लड़ाई अभी खत्म नहीं हुई है, छुआछूत-भेदभाव जैसी अस्पृश्यता अब भी कायम; स्वतंत्रतामूलक सुधार अपरिहार्य

भ्रष्टाचार की तस्वीर: शिकायत पर कार्रवाई नहीं, संभावना पहचानने की व्यवस्था हो, डिजिटल प्रक्रिया की अहम भूमिका