Newspaper editorials — Monday 5 October, 2026

The Election Commission of India’s conduct raises serious questions about legality, accountability and constitutional propriety

The evolving defence strategy of the United States offers India an opportunity to build leverage

If intensive regulatory mechanisms were the real engine of quality, our most tightly regulated universities and HEIs would have been outperforming the IISc, IITs, IIMs NITs and other similar institutions.

While 30 to 40 colleges were established under different political dispensations in Delhi, none of them have attempted to provide hostel accommodation on their campuses

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…

Women want freedom from sexual violence. But they also want the right to safe public spaces.

The countries that thrive in the 21st century will be those that invest in human capital and build lasting networks of knowledge and innovation

Every system or protocol fails to anticipate a possible breach. We mistake the calm between two tragedies as operational efficiency and peak professionalism

This will help utilities see their own network clearly enough to plan ahead of failure rather than merely respond to it

It’s unclear if the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) can actually force corporate entities such as Tata Sons to list their shares for public trading. Many other ways exist for this regulator to secure the financial system’s security without h…

September was a good month for electric vehicle (EV) offtake and there’s good reason to expect this trend to strengthen. As EV sales gain pace, the country’s power grid must decarbonize faster too.

It’s clear that new effective norms for fliers and pilots can’t be ignored any longer.

Supreme Court has allowed the use of specified green firecrackers this festive season, regulating their hours of use. The court is still determining the exact timings for when these firecrackers can be used. Despite these permits, concer…

G7's recent decision to release 100 million barrels of oil from reserves is unlikely to significantly alleviate fuel inflation as it overlaps with earlier commitments. Despite political pressures ahead of midterm elections, supply disrup…

दूसरा पहलू: क्या सामूहिक पैटर्न पैदल चलने वालों की आपसी बातचीत या व्यवहार से बनते हैं, हम हमेशा बाएं ही क्यों मुड़ते हैं?

जीवन धारा: जीवन दूसरों से आगे निकलने की दौड़ नहीं है, अपनी राह पहचानना ही सार्थक सूत्र

मुद्दा: अदालत के फैसले के बाद महिला-पुरुष भेदभाव पर फिर से छिड़ी बहस, क्या जोखिम भरे काम महिलाओं के लिए नहीं?

आखिर सीमाएं तय कौन करेगा: चल रहीं जबर्दस्त चर्चाएं असल बात को छिपाती दिखती हैं, दिग्गज संतुलन बनाने में असहाय