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Keeping up with UP| Young minds: A maze political parties struggle to navigate

Smarter attire, youngish lingo and contemporary music—from rap to rock—is unlikely to impress Gen Z, which is gearing up to play a significant...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

UPI: India’s success story in transforming financial governance

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was launched in India in April 2016 with 21 members banks. The objective was to make digital payments as easy and...

yesterday 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Joining hands for water security as warming rises

Water connects us in ways few other resources do. Rivers do not recognise administrative boundaries, aquifers may sustain several communities, and...

yesterday 10

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Magic of performing arts in a mundane digital world

I must have been nine or ten when my father dragged us along to watch a play whose title I could not yet pronounce: Aashadh Ka Ek Din, staged at the...

yesterday 10

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Pranav Jain

Universities as labs of entrepreneurship

India just pulled off something remarkable: Eight of its universities ranked highly on PitchBook’s 2026 list of the world’s top 100 institutions...

yesterday 10

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Vivek Wadhwa

Ecostani: SIR, voter deletion and 2029 Census challenge

India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar said in Ahmedabad earlier this month that problems related to exclusion of names in the...

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Chetan Chauhan

Gig workers really don’t care for bleeding hearts

One thing that does not change in India is the bleeding hearts whose soft souls continue to cry for those less fortunate. Thirty years ago, they were...

16.09.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

In the Iran war, a tale of old American dilemmas

Eight decades ago, US President Harry S Truman faced a decision that would change the nature of warfare forever. Japan was still fighting after the...

15.09.2026 10

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Milinda Moragoda

EVM totalisers protect both votes and voters

The right to vote is one of the fundamental pillars of an electoral democracy such as India’s. However, to truly represents popular will, the right...

15.09.2026 20

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Gautam Bhatia

West’s BRICS+ worries underline its own decline

Such is the depth of political, social, and economic uncertainty in Europe, and such is the scale of the US’s failure as a global power, that a...

15.09.2026 30

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Don’t mistake the noise around BRICS for impact

The 2026 Delhi summit of BRICS has been under a spotlight this weekend, and things under a spotlight tend to look bigger and brighter than they...

14.09.2026 20

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Happymon Jacob

BAPS goes to Paris

Days after the consecration of the BAPS—or, to use its full name, the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha—temple in a Parisian...

14.09.2026 20

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Namita Bhandare

The West cannot go on criticising BRICS

BRICS has come of age, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his address at the 18th summit of the grouping, hosted in New Delhi over the weekend. It...

14.09.2026 20

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Nishtha Gautam

Growing reach of Hindi and regional languages

Last week, while addressing India’s Gen Z and Gen Alpha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to speak in Hindi. He could have chosen Gujarati, as the...

14.09.2026 20

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Shashi Shekhar

Post Iran war, oil is the new oil

When the West Asia war started in February and Iran subsequently shut traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, analysts described it as the biggest ever...

13.09.2026 20

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Ht Editorial

What Russia brings to BRICS and India

Russia brings to the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi something few other partners can claim: a relationship with India that has repeatedly adapted to...

13.09.2026 20

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Ajai Malhotra

Working with China on common interests

The BRICS summit comes at a particularly important time for India. Even as there is turmoil around the world, its fast-paced economic growth and...

13.09.2026 20

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Manoj Joshi

A gender agenda for BRICS

The ongoing BRICS summit in New Delhi has reaffirmed the significance of the grouping for Global South cooperation, and its impact on development,...

13.09.2026 20

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Lalita Panicker

BRICS and the question of ensuring energy security

If a country has oil and gas reserves, must it drill for it? At a time when the conflict in West Asia has hotted up again, and crude oil prices are...

13.09.2026 30

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Engage with China, but without getting starry-eyed about it

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to India in seven years and his bilateral with Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi is understandably going...

12.09.2026 30

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Barkha Dutt

BRICS success leans on money and its mundane processes

As India hosts BRICS’s 18th summit, the grouping’s true significance sits somewhere between the hype and the scepticism surrounding it. The need...

12.09.2026 20

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Vesselin Popovski

BRICS+ and mass mobility as lodestar for EV policy

For millions of people across BRICS countries, the electric vehicle (EV) transition will not begin with a car from a showroom. It will begin on a bus...

12.09.2026 30

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Sunil Mani