Newspaper editorials — Friday 9 October, 2026

How one living voter found himself declared dead and deleted from the electoral roll

The RBI policy review will need Central assistance to effectively fight inflation

The Gyanesh Kumar-led Election Commission of India, emboldened by a deferential Supreme Court judgment, has already disenfranchised lakhs of genuine electors through its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and risks exclu…

Bias is more than human sociology; life makes choices with definite preferences

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…

PM Modi’s 25-year journey teaches us seva (service) for the needs of today and sankalp (resolution) for the possibilities of tomorrow

Few investments could unlock capital & free enterprise in the country the way cleaning up land titles could. Without it, Indians will remain capital-constrained

New Delhi has carved out a distinct identity for itself as a bridge-builder between the geopolitical antipodes of the East and the West, the North and the South

The recent FlyDubai cockpit scare may make fly-by-wire tech seem like an aviation security solution. But the hitch has been that remote aircraft control technology is not free of risk either. Here’s the lowdown on the dilemma as it stand…

The broad aim of the GST Council's reform package is to ease processes and compliance. A big gain will be the working capital that would be unlocked—especially for businesses with long or highly taxed supply chains. The changes deserve a…

Scaling too fast is irrelevant. The real problem is that India still confuses more hospitals, more doctors and more medicines with better healthcare.

दूसरी पारी: कभी-कभी दिमाग भी छुट्टी लेता है, स्कॉटलैंड की 78 वर्षीय कैथ बोवी कुछ नया सीखने के मामले में प्रेरक

मुड़-मुड़ के देख: कुछ नया करने की कोई उम्र नहीं होती, हर संघर्ष में सीख और हर स्मृति में कोई मूल्यवान संदेश

जीएसटी सुधार की ओर: टैक्स दरों में बदलाव के बजाय व्यापार आसान बनाने की दिशा में पहल, 57वीं बैठक कई अहम फैसले

थोड़ा-सा रूमानी, थोड़ा-सा रूहानी: नाना पाटेकर एक खुदरंग अभिनेता के रूप में दर्ज रहेंगे, अपनी तरह के खालिस