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The debate is not merely about a cancelled examination, a delayed test, or a malfunctioning computer system. It is about trust. Can students trust the institutions responsible for evaluating their future?

An uneducated Indian is not a free Indian. Coaching factories, exam leaks, nursery-school interviews and unemployability mean an Indian child’s most important decisions are choosing their parents and pin code wisely. The solution is not

The rot and decay in the parliamentary system has now become his biggest strength. The 'fast track' that marked the constitution-making process seems to have broken

Many delivery agents reported working more than 84 hours a week simply to break what they colloquially call the incentive 'tala' (lock) — a threshold that must be crossed before higher incentives become available

India is one of the world’s largest textile producers, with both advanced textile engineering and a long history of climate-responsive fabrics. Yet in the sectors where heat exposure is most acute — schools, informal labour,

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 01, 1986.

Building sovereign application-layer infrastructure while remaining structurally dependent on foreign cloud, foreign AI, and foreign chips is an unresolved vulnerability — one that the Nayara episode previewed and future geopolitical turbulence will test again

The government should consider enacting an ‘Energy Responsibility and Security Act’ that defines the roles and responsibilities of every citizen in securing energy ‘atmanirbharta’ and sustainability

The climb is not finished. In every tehsil office and police station, women are still at that early stage, still the first, still proving themselves

The measure of a society's response to sexual violence is not simply whether survivors are encouraged to speak — it is whether institutions prove worthy of the trust that speaking requires and of the hope

The point of satire is that this is where we are headed, if we are not careful. ‘The Boys’ stuck to that in its first three seasons. By the fifth, it stopped holding up a

The Capital’s drawing rooms are heatedly discussing the government’s eviction threat to the hallowed Delhi Gymkhana Club. Some members, who apprehend that they could be robbed of their lifelong watering hole, now trace the origins

The memory of that evening lives on at the Gymkhana Club. The club faces new challenges today, but that farewell party of 1947 remains a proud part of its history.

For the well qualified, if AI hogs all the boring job options humanity relies on for a paycheck, dare we hope that after the initial shake up, people will pivot back and pursue whatever genuinely

Mobility is the life-spring of cockroaches. The high fuel prices limit the mobility of cockroaches. The price of petrol in Delhi is Rs 102.12 and the price of diesel is Rs 95.20

If the Gymkhana Club refuses to pay market rent, then it must go. But this should be the first step in a bigger readjustment of Lutyens Delhi.

In an era of hardened rhetoric and communal fractures, the late poet's effortless verses remain our most powerful antidote to hatred

A month since the Antoine Fuqua-directed ‘Michael’ released, the buzz around King of Pop refuses to die down leading to a resurgence of interest in him and his music

The British lost the American Revolution due to five specific mistakes. Two and a half centuries later, the US is making every single one of them against Iran

Bring urban women into the participatory fold. The rural channels that have historically mobilised women — panchayat networks, anganwadis, self-help groups — do not extend to cities like Mumbai or Bengaluru

Peace in Gaza requires Israeli restraint and an institutional credibility capable of assuaging Palestinian fears. Netanyahu’s latest order does precisely the opposite

India has enough land, water and sunshine for growing crops. But that’s not the case with fertilisers, where it is overwhelmingly import-dependent

Surjit Singh Barnala said he had no intention of stepping down as Punjab CM and party president, as the two offices had been bestowed on him by the “panth”.

The beauty of having sporting heroes you can relate to is that they make greatness feel attainable, not aspirational

The weaponisation of trade, finance and energy flows by the US, with its allies playing second fiddle, has deeply hurt Indian economic interests, impacting India’s economic rise, and as a consequence, its national security and