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Hindustan Times Patna
Try this idyll worship
Maldives-level chill. Goa-level prices. And quick flights too. Krabi in Thailand is the perfect vacation loophole amid global tensions and the falling rupee
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Warrior turns killer in the age of non-contact wars
A characteristic of contemporary wars is that the ethics of fighting are increasingly receding to the background.
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Drawing the line on insults
A repost isn’t an endorsement, but friends do not amplify critical posts about each other. The Trump White House needs to taper down on gratuitous messages targetting India
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Deregulation in focus, the bet is on entrepreneurs
The big reform aims to free Indian industry from needless, time consuming, and complex regulation. Regulation will have to become trust-based
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Forty years after disaster, lessons about nuclear safety
On Sunday, April 26, Ukraine and the world will mark 40 years since the Chornobyl disaster — the worst accidentiin the history of civilian nuclear power.
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
The Dey has just begun
Bassists are not supposed to be the main character. Mohini Dey didn’t get that memo. At 30, she’s composed for Dhurandhar, jammed with Willow Smith and AR Rahman. Chris Martin thinks her riffs are sick. How did she become the coolest person in the room?
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
How Parsis behave when no one is watching
Ribald humour, odd characters, and the eccentric Parsi tongue mark out Berjis Desai’s Navsari Tales as an apt account of a distinct way of life
3 min |
April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Whose side are you on?
The henchman, the unhinged mom, the survivor, the tech support. These 10 supporting characters have our heart
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Oops, you missed a spot
There’s a serum for every pore, an acid for every bump, a new body part to be embarrassed about. Why is beauty so cruel?
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
PARIS AIRPORTS' OPERATOR CUTS STAKE IN GMR IN $1 BILLION DEAL
ADP, the operator of the main Paris airports, agreed to sell up to 7.3% of GMR Airports Ltd as part of a deal worth as much as €924 million ($1.08 billion).
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April 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Shadow over Bengal polls
A messy SIR has left many disenfranchised, raising questions about conduct of the election
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April 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Renewing the missing spirit of multilateralism
Multilateralism is not easy, but it is indispensable for meeting the world’s greatest challenges.
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April 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Amid the global churn, flying into turbulence
Over the past few weeks, several news reports have detailed the position in which SpiceJet finds itself.
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April 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Indian police: Everyone’s favourite punching bag
The Supreme Court passed directions for police reforms in 2006. The directions have not been implemented, but it is the police, and even bureaucrats, who face the flak
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April 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Making health care affordable
The government must expand public health care network as well as insurance coverage
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April 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
The stakes are high in the Sabarimala matter
As the Supreme Court hears the Sabarimala reference, an old idea has returned to centre stage: Constitutional morality, the conscience that allows courts to navigate difficult terrain.
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April 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
RBI in talks with global regulators to review Mythos risks
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is in talks with global regulators, Indian lenders and government officials to understand the potential risks posed by Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence (Al) model Mythos, three people said.
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April 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
What Delhi’s TOD policy gets right, what it does not
Transit-oriented development (TOD) rests on three fundamentals: Density, diversity, and design.
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April 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Information war in West Asia and lessons for India
The first battle is for attention, and it begins on the phone screen. The side that seizes it shapes much of what follows: TV debate, newspaper framing and diplomatic chatter
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April 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
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.
3 min |
April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
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 Patna
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 Patna
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 Patna
Apple withholds data in India antitrust case
Apple has not submitted data sought by India’s antitrust body after an investigation found the US firm abused its dominant position in the iPhone apps market, prompting the watchdog to fast-track a decision on penalties to a final hearing next month, an order shows.
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April 21, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
The wages of war, for Trump and Netanyahu
Every war leaves behind soul-searing questions.
3 min |
April 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
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 Patna
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 Patna
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 Patna
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 Patna
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).
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