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Why the UN Environment Assembly is essential to a safer, more resilient planet

Why the UN Environment Assembly is essential to a safer, more resilient planet

To deliver at the speed and scale required, the United Nations system must act together — with all of Multilateral Environmental Agreements coming...

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Jayasankar Krishnamurty: Lifelong friend, academic

Jayasankar Krishnamurty: Lifelong friend, academic

In many senses, Jayasankar's career path synchronised with mine until 1964, both at St Stephen’s and the Delhi School of Economics

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Actor to auteur, the Raj Kapoor panorama at 100

Actor to auteur, the Raj Kapoor panorama at 100

Raj Kapoor, whose birth centenary concludes on Sunday, epitomised all that was best in Hindi cinema: Entertainment, egalitarianism and enterprise

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Ambarish Mishra

Viksit Bharat goal needs investing more in health

Viksit Bharat goal needs investing more in health

Over time, neglecting the health of the population transforms growth from an engine of progress to a source of fragility

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

Remembering PS Raghavan: Lessons in life, diplomacy

Remembering PS Raghavan: Lessons in life, diplomacy

In his approach to life, Raghavan saheb had both breadth of vision and attention to detail to build institutions. Yet, he was far from being...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Road map for universal health coverage in India

Road map for universal health coverage in India

To deliver UHC, India’s health system needs to be agile, adaptive, and anticipatory

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Russia-India summit: Decoding the subtext

Russia-India summit: Decoding the subtext

India-Russia ties, like all relationships, have their hiccups, but the two sides have learnt over decades how to avoid disruptions in the relationship

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India’s ties with Russia and US are no zero-sum game

India’s ties with Russia and US are no zero-sum game

India’s multi-alignment is not a reflexive hedge, but a deliberate assessment that relations with Washington and Moscow are not a zero-sum choice

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Public health gains through vaccines need restatement

Public health gains through vaccines need restatement

It is incumbent upon us to create a system and communications outreach that addresses such concerns effectively and gain the trust of even the...

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Anand Krishnan

Delhi-NCR must take the road to clean air

Delhi-NCR must take the road to clean air

A four-step strategy focussed on cleaner and shared vehicles — put into action in the next few years — is critical to improving air quality

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Arunabha Ghosh

Vande Mataram and its place in India’s parliamentary tradition

Vande Mataram and its place in India’s parliamentary tradition

In 1937, when Congress ministries took office in several provinces, Vande Mataram began to be sung inside legislative chambers

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Ravindra Garimella

Why COP30’s trade turn matters, despite CBAM

Why COP30’s trade turn matters, despite CBAM

Dialogue fatigue is real. We’ve seen it before on finance and technology discussions. COP30’s closing days showed how hard things could get

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Bucking global trends, marriage in India endures. Here’s why

Reports of its death in India are greatly exaggerated, but marriage as an institution is increasingly coming under scrutiny. Read on…

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Namita Bhandare

Court, executive and the test of constitutionality

Court, executive and the test of constitutionality

The separation of powers envisaged in the Constitution asks for the three organs of State to check and regulate each other

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Gautam Bhatia

India-Russia tango, with China in the shadows

India-Russia tango, with China in the shadows

While India must increase its trade with Russia, this can only happen if the American and western sanctions against Russia are lifted

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Happymon Jacob

Betting on India's next big reforms

Betting on India's next big reforms

Customs reforms will be key to the transformation of the Indian economy

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Ht Editorial

Vande Mataram and a needless controversy

Vande Mataram and a needless controversy

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote Vande Mataram in 1875. In 1905, when Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal, the song became the bedrock of Bengali unity

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Shashi Shekhar

Mango wars: Battling over brand Alphonso

Mango wars: Battling over brand Alphonso

Every region in India swears by the superiority of its mango so much that the fondness is an article of faith

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Ht Editorial

India-Russia relations: A tightrope walk amid churn in global equations

India-Russia relations: A tightrope walk amid churn in global equations

New Delhi and Moscow recognise the pull of other relationships. But Putin’s visit and its outcome shows India is ready to take the rocky road

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Manoj Joshi

Better data governance can help states improve welfare delivery

Better data governance can help states improve welfare delivery

States can learn from each other’s experiences of operationalising various data exchange mechanisms in the past

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Sridhar Ganapathy

Ambedkar is dead. Long live Ambedkar!

Ambedkar is dead. Long live Ambedkar!

In the age of constant virtue signalling, Ambedkar is often reduced to a mere totem — a relic of the collective conscience that could never be

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Nishtha Gautam