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Pahalgam targeted hope, tested India’s resilience
Looking ahead, India needs to deepen and widen deterrence and build societal fortitude against the disruption of economic activity, tourism, and education
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April 22, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
In Bengal, ECI’s absurd theatre over motorbikes
Roughly one in three households in West Bengal owns a motorcycle, according to the National Family Health Survey.
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April 22, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
How Islamabad built its narrative on Op Sindoor
he Pahalgam terror attack on this day a year ago revealed the ruthless ambitions of an army chief and his willingness to risk high costs to achieve his objectives.
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April 22, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Why Dhaka is watching Bengal elections closely
On April 23 and 29, West Bengal will head to the hustings, to elect a new state assembly.
3 min |
April 22, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Leaving behind Pahalgam scars
A year after the gruesome massacre of tourists, India and Pakistan have taken divergent paths
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April 22, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
West Bengal’s paradox of economic transformation
The absence of industrialisation produced opposite outcomes in the rural and urban parts of the state
4 min |
April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Building trust, saving trade
India should use the trade talk with the US to take things as close to status quo ante as possible for exporters to the US
2 min |
April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
West Asia’s security is now India’s problem too
At a moment when tensions in the Gulf are once again rising — marked by instability in the Strait of Hormuz and the stalling of US-Iran diplomacy — much of the analysis remains narrowly focused on familiar powers and traditional alliances.
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April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
In Karnataka, the quiet demise of Ahinda politics
Among the many promises made by the Congress before it came to power in Karnataka in 2023 was that it would restore a certain degree of morality, even probity and transparency, to public life.
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April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Strait truth: India must hasten energy transition
New Delhi must treat the West Asia crisis as a strategic inflection point and accelerate its shift toward domestic clean energy systems while prioritising energy efficiency as well
4 min |
April 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The wages of war, for Trump and Netanyahu
Every war leaves behind soul-searing questions.
3 min |
April 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Fraying of the federal pact
The quota debate has highlighted genuine anxieties about delimitation and threatened to widen a north-south fault line
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April 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Lessons from US courts on social media liability
Even as Gen Z appears to have intuitively decided posting online is passé and India ponders social media bans, courts in the US have taken a strong stand, holding social media platforms liable for online harms, addiction, and its health ramifications.
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April 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Two new springs are born
In remote parts of rural Ethiopia, such as Adami Teso and Kumato, women and children typically spend half the day walking to the nearest pond, spring or river and back, to fetch water.
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The mighty Ganga tells our story
India is like a different planet when it comes to water.
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Rethinking global order in the precincts of Nalanda
thas become fashionable to criticise the US for its recent conduct toward Iran.
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Peter Magyar, the Eliza Doolittle of Hungary
Iizarre as it may seem, the news of Viktor Orban’s shattering defeat in last Sunday's elections in Hungary made me think of Zoltan Karpathy.
3 min |
April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
H2...Whoa: Where we stand on water
We can all list the problems. We prefer to ignore their scale. How bad is it? The World Economic Forum has declared 2026 the Year of Water; it will be a central theme at the Davos summit. The term 'water bankruptcy' is gaining traction. The good news? Even a little careful action can help - as it is doing in China, Ethiopia, Peru
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
A podium to speak and heal, not wound further
When the world despairs about what Washington DC and Tel Aviv have done in these fiery times, recalling utterances by former US presidents that underlined humanity's quest for peace
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The death of the pride of Dhaka
The French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, in his 1684 travelogues, wrote that Dhaka seemed to extend only in length, as “everyone coveted to have a house by the Ganges-side” (referring to the mighty Buriganga).
1 min |
April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
A Sponge City plan
Intense dust storms loom over Beijing regularly now, some unlike anything seen before this decade.
1 min |
April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The Colorado river no longer reaches the sea
They say: “Follow the river and it will eventually lead you to the sea”.
2 min |
April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
A harvest of sinkholes
Some of the world’s first agricultural societies emerged here, about 9,500 years ago.
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
That sounded better in Mandarin
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson could take notes from a moving new Chinese drama
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April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Why it is hard to trump a civilisational State
Inthe context of the ongoing Iran war, Iwonder if people have thought about the difference in intrinsic strengths between nation-States and civilisation-al-States.
3 min |
April 19, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Azure model set to anchor Microsoft’s next big AI push
Two weeks after announcing its foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models for transcriptions, voice and images, Big Tech firm Microsoft wants to use its Azure cloud business strategy to sign long-term Al contracts with clients.
3 min |
April 18, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Raiders of the lost art
Historic artefacts get stolen all the time. Here are 10 from around the world that are still missing, making us all weep
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April 18, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Building the case for open-source licences
he New Delhi AI Impact Summit Declaration noted that “opensource AI applications and other accessible AI approaches can contribute to scalability, replicability, and adaptability of AI systems across sectors”.
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April 18, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Top of the food chain
From standout noodle bars to exceptional Awadhi, Mangalorean, Chinese and Italian, here’s the best of Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru’s dining scene
4 min |
April 18, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
All the rage, all the time
What drives you up the wall? What's your villain origin story? We asked writers, actors, sound engineers, curators - everyone, really – about their pettiest rage-bait. They gleefully obliged. So, do these things piss you off too?
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