Newspaper editorials — Thursday 17 September, 2026

Must god represent just one idea? In medieval times, every region and its people had their own versions of the divine

A State that bears the infrastructural and social consequences of mineral extraction must retain a meaningful stake in the economic value generated from its natural resources

The Chinese President’s visit to Egypt has outlined Beijing’s approach

The RSS’s global outreach revealed contradictions in the Sangh’s ideas about the people and territory that make up a nation

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…

Inclusion of those whom governance delivery did not reach for decades marks the Modi era, writes Ram Nath Kovind

A preventive statute is meant to impose costs on caste-based humiliation before it recurs, not reward parties for choosing their words carefully on record.

We need a right that allows every person to control the digital use of their face, voice and likeness

RBI’s enforcement has a rigorous process, but penalty cases in the news have stirred a debate on whether India needs an appellate authority. Its supervisory role is relatively opaque for valid reasons, but RBI may find that the more pred…

Inflation is within its acceptable limits, but it’s the upward trend that policymakers need to worry about. Food prices especially. With farms hit by patchy rains amid new oil shockwaves, the Centre must protect Indian households that se…

Feverish talk of the two archrivals being trapped in a race of mutually assured destruction (MAD) may be exaggerated. Yet, they owe humanity the safety of mutual restraints on dangerous artificial intelligence (AI). Both must sit down an…

India has satellite data to help track rainfall and inflation risks arising from global tilts in oceanic warmth. The country’s challenge is to study atmospheric aberrations closer home—such as the Indian Ocean dipole and winter rain dist…

Dhiraj Bommadevara secured India's first individual recurve gold at the Archery World Cup Final. He defeated strong international competitors in a tense shoot-off to achieve this victory. His father and mother made significant sacrifices…

PM Modi Birthday Special : प्रधानमंत्री बनना निश्चित रूप से कठिन है, लेकिन प्रधानमंत्री बनने के बाद लगातार खुद को साबित करते रहना शायद उससे भी ज्यादा कठिन है।

शराब भी ले रही झूठ का सहारा: स्वाद से लेकर उम्र तक के दावे पर सवाल, लेबल की सच्चाई कितनी? alcohol misleading claims flavour age label

जीवनधारा: फूल सुगंध का हिसाब नहीं रखता, बस खिलता है life-lessons-from-flower-bloom-without-counting-your-fragrance

दूसरा पहलू: समुद्र से उठता वैश्विक खतरा, अल नीनो की आहट से बढ़ी चिंता powerful-el-nino-2027-global-temperature-record-climate-change