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Hindustan Times Jammu
Clean energy allows India to withstand risks
The global energy crisis following the Strait of Hormuz blockade and India’s large crude oil import bill shows why clean energy is not merely a climate obligation but a core energy security strategy
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June 16, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Cinema & AI: Unresolved issue of human creativity
At the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily on Saturday, filmmaker Gore Verbinski said his piece in the ongoing debate on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its extent in film-making.
4 min |
June 16, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Iran persisted, the US blinked
The maintenance of US dominance rests on the risk-averseness of its friends and foes
2 min |
June 16, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Organ donation is a practice twice-blessed
India today performs more than 18,000 solid organ transplants a year — more than any country except the US and China.
3 min |
June 16, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Folly of looking at a neighbour with borrowed lenses
Allowing the Chinese firsthand exposure to India’s intellectual currents is irreplaceable for understanding each other better
4 min |
June 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
What the youth think of India’s foreign policy
One of the most consequential shifts in India's foreign policy discourse over the past decade has been the emergence of a more overtly people-centric orientation.
2 min |
June 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
India can play a bigger role in a shifting G7
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi's visit to Evian to attend the G7 Summit as a Special Guest of French President Emmanuel Macron is an opportunity for reflection.
3 min |
June 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Valuing women’s household work
It has been a struggle to merely get the problem recognised; solving it will be an even bigger struggle
2 min |
June 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Is digital India ready for Anthropic's Mythos era?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves, so do the anxieties around it.
3 min |
June 12, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
The politics of shade in our unequal cities
As Indian cities heat up, cooling equity will need investing in shaded public infrastructure — bus stops, markets, pedestrian pathways, schools and health centres. It will also need labour protection for workers on the frontline of heat exposure
4 min |
June 12, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
How waste can help meet India's fertiliser needs
In 1884, the year Tokyo completed its first modern sewer network, Bombay’s municipal commissioners were debating whether to extend water drainage to its native quarters.
4 min |
June 12, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
The cost of the US's Iran gambit
US messages about peace talks sound identical to declarations of war. It is very difficult to negotiate peace with bombs
2 min |
June 12, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Indian middle class's gains in the last 12 years
More money in the pocket, better infrastructure, and the digital transformation have fuelled even larger aspirations — allowing a confident, better-served citizenry to demand more
4 min |
June 11, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
BITs need not be only a bitter pill for India
In the last 36 months, New Delhi has inked or upgraded over half a dozen free trade agreements (FTAs), with the UAE, Australia, European Free Trade Association, or EFTA (comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), New Zealand, Oman, the UK and EU.
3 min |
June 11, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Accountability down the sewers
No country can claim to be modern while standing on the backs of invisible workers risking their lives in sewers
1 min |
June 11, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
More than a BIT of a challenge for India
In the past couple of years, India signed bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with a few countries — most prominently, with Israel and the UAE.
3 min |
June 11, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
H-1B visa is a measure of American politics
Last year, US President Donald Trump sought to gut the H-1B visa programme by raising its application fees tenfold to $1,00,000 — more than the median wage for H-1B workers in 2024.
1 min |
June 10, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
When preventive health check-ups do more harm
Every day, people are exhorted to undergo “preventive” health check-ups. These come in the form of executive check-ups, prevention “camps”, and bundled packs which promise more tests for less money.
3 min |
June 10, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Raising minimum wages limits workers' choice
After the Karnataka government notified new minimum wages for 83 types of employment late-May, with upto 60% increases in some cases, employer unions have approached the courts challenging the notification.
3 min |
June 10, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
India’s politics in the last 12 years
Opposition parties have found it difficult to match Modi’s appeal, BJP’s relentless groundwork and identity politics
2 min |
June 10, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
From discovery of India to trust in Bharat
Aspirations of and scrutiny by the people have gone up exponentially compared to Nehru’s times. Modi’s success lies in having measured up to these and sustaining a bond of trust with the people
4 min |
June 10, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
India's hill stations need legal personhood
Instead of relying on overstretched bureaucracies or politically influenced departments, a hill station’s legal voice must come from a permanent, independent Guardian Council
4 min |
June 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
No mother should lose her life in childbirth
Every safe pregnancy is a reflection of a nation’s commitment to its women. In a country with nearly 2.9 crore pregnancies annually, ensuring safe motherhood at scale requires robust health systems, sustained political commitment, timely interventions, and equitable access to quality health care services.
3 min |
June 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
MARKETS HIT 2-MONTH LOW ON OIL SURGE, ASIA SELLOFF
Indian shares fell on Monday, tracking a sharp selloff across Asian markets, while crude prices spiked due to an escalation of the Middle East conflict.
1 min |
June 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
When world leaders speak like academics
It is rare to see new academic theories permeate into the vocabulary of world leaders. That is precisely what has happened with “active non-alignment” (ANA), an idea propagated by Chilean practitioners Jorge Heine, Carlos Fortin, and Carlos Ominami.
2 min |
June 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Uphill run for INDIA bloc
It has to focus on common messaging, pooling of resources and stop one-upmanship
2 min |
June 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
FORMER TMC MLA KEY CONSPIRATOR IN BHANGAR BOMB BLAST CASE: NIA
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Saturday that former Trinamool Congress MLA, Saokot Molla, who was arrested on Friday evening, had directed the other accused to make the crude bomb that had exploded in Bhangar near Kolkata in March, just ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections.
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June 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
How women experience summers in the city
Gulshan wraps herself in a wet dupatta and tries to sleep.
2 min |
June 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
Pope, AI, and the many meanings of godhead
Perhaps the greatest benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it has provoked a much needed public discussion on technology.
5 min |
June 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Jammu
The fatal sadness of Marjane Satrapi
‘When people are fighting for democracy, we should support them,’ Marjane Satrapi wrote in a letter to the French government in January 2025, barely six months before Israel bombed her birthplace, Rasht, a city in northern Iran.
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