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Columns

Companies are scrounging around for wind and solar power but the most noticeable action is around nuclear.

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

3 min read . 10:30 AM IST

Employees seeking higher wages is not surprising but it is worth asking if meeting this demand is necessary or even desirable.

Another pay commission? The government should hold its horses

4 min read . 20 Nov 2024

In no Asian capital is the gap between grim economic reality and huge economic potential so wide. (via REUTERS)

The Dissanayake administration’s challenge is to reform Sri Lanka's economy

1 min read . 20 Nov 2024

There are literally dozens of research studies proving that the hindsight bias is pretty much all pervasive.

So you think you correctly predicted Trump’s win? Think again

1 min read . 20 Nov 2024

India’s Account Aggregator system has been built around a technology construct that embodies privacy principles in a digital format.

Let’s plug a privacy loophole in India’s account aggregator system

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

Voters think about price levels rather than just the rate at which they are changing. (AFP)

High inflation can impose more than just financial costs

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

The realignment of working classes from the left to the right of the political spectrum is likely to reverberate for decades in democracies. (REUTERS)

Trump’s return: There are many small reasons but three big ones

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

Stock markets are really not anywhere as predictable as they are made out to be.

Why are stock market ‘experts’ reluctant to accept uncertainty?

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

Capitalism works best when the institutional structures of a developed economy ensure equality of opportunity, fair competition and a hefty price for violating rules. (Istockphoto)

The Indian economy is yet to fully escape the state’s shackles

4 min read . 18 Nov 2024

As far as our society is concerned, there are very few who have any serious concerns regarding pollution, climate change, and conservation. (PTI)

A worrying shift from existence in tune with nature

3 min read . 18 Nov 2024

The progress made, even if marginal, inspires hope, especially when weighed against the uncertainty arising from Trump’s re-election.

Hope springs anew amid a thick haze over climate talks in Baku

4 min read . 17 Nov 2024

Air quality is not a major political issue yet; but the reason why it is so bad in the national capital region is influenced by politics.

Manu Joseph: Why national pride has not cleaned up Delhi’s air

5 min read . 17 Nov 2024

It will be extremely hard for the US to regain the moral high ground and epistemological dominance that it enjoyed for decades and that reduced the costs of its diplomacy. (AFP)

Geopolitical shake-up: Trump’s return will make countries scurry for new options

4 min read . 17 Nov 2024

Within the first three months of 2024, fraudsters had extorted sums totalling ₹120.3 crore from unsuspecting people through “digital arrests”.

Opinion | The worrying rise of fraudsters on the prowl online

3 min read . 11 Nov 2024

Ratan Naval Tata. (HT_PRINT)

Ratan Tata made India a better, kinder place

4 min read . 09 Nov 2024

Overseas investments into India, be it FDI or FPI, need not be upended just because of Trump’s ‘America First’ policies. (AP)

Will India triumph or be Trumped?

4 min read . 08 Nov 2024

The US is India’s second-largest trade partner with total trade in goods and services of about $200 billion. (Bloomberg)

Opinion: No major threat to Indian exports to US

3 min read . 06 Nov 2024

Indira Gandhi. (PIB)

Hero or villain? A question Indira’s life is still posing

4 min read . 28 Oct 2024

Several incidents are reported where people, instead of coming forward to help a victim, get busy making videos to post on social media.

Rage spills over on roads; reels only fan the fire

3 min read . 21 Oct 2024

The gap between social reality and data was bridgeable, and the BJP was able to march into the corridors of power in Haryana for a record third time. (HT_PRINT)

Winning votes by working at the grassroots level

4 min read . 14 Oct 2024