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Express View on Tesla in India: Charging up

April 5, 2024 06:58 IST

Entry of global EV manufacturers like Tesla could help catalyse the segment. Government must ensure commitments on investment, localisation are adhered to

‘Speech-fasting’ and the art of going beyond navel gazing

April 5, 2024 06:45 IST

A benefit of ‘speech fast’ may be better interpersonal relationships. That’s something worth staying silent for

Express View on Indians seeking surrogacy abroad: For love of a child

April 5, 2024 06:23 IST

Trend of wealthy Indians travelling abroad to have children through surrogacy points to problems in India’s surrogacy law, which needs updating

Express View on Israel’s latest offensive: A mounting toll

April 4, 2024 07:35 IST

Killing of aid workers, attack on embassy by its forces underline the high costs of Netanyahu government’s maximalist position

Can’t decide between croissant and cookie? Have a crookie

April 4, 2024 07:30 IST

Creations like the crookie, cronut and cruffin underline that the most enduring foods are also the most versatile.

Express View on Court’s warning to Ramdev: No free pass

April 4, 2024 07:24 IST

Patanjali has been irresponsible for far too long. SC’s latest censure is a warning that there will be no more impunity

Express View on IMD’s heat wave alert: Act Now

April 3, 2024 07:35 IST

Alert should spur local-level strategies, help create robust data to protect the most vulnerable.

Express View: Don’t politicise Katchatheevu

April 3, 2024 07:30 IST

Resolving these requires engagement with Colombo in calmer times after the polls — when long-term diplomatic imperatives do not have to compete with short-term electoral compulsions

A message against intolerance – in human DNA

April 3, 2024 07:20 IST

New genetic and fossil evidence about Denisovans shows that cooperation and co-mingling are a part of who humans are.

What does evidence of canine vocabulary and intelligence say about other thinking animals?

April 2, 2024 08:06 IST

Elephants, dolphins and whales, primates and great apes — multiple non-human species— have shown signs of emotion and intelligence. As more animals seem more like people, it might be time to humanise them

Express View on 90 years of RBI: Prepare for upcoming challenges

April 2, 2024 07:45 IST

From changes in payment mechanisms, and the central bank digital currency, to new sources of risk and ensuring effective regulation and supervision, the central bank must be ready for unforeseen events

Express View on Alwar caste violence: What politics and policy forget

April 2, 2024 16:54 IST

It shows the endemic nature of a problem that politics and policy need to do more to address

Express View: Lesson from wheat fields

April 1, 2024 07:40 IST

Green Revolution 2.0’s focus must be on input use efficiency and building climate resilience through breeding of drought-resistant and heat-tolerant varieties.

Express View: Free, fair, foul

April 1, 2024 07:35 IST

Will Opposition’s alarm bells resonate with voters? This frames its political challenge; there’s an institutional one for the EC too.

Song lyrics today are no worse than before

March 30, 2024 07:40 IST

: They may not win their composers any Nobel Prizes, but in a competitive music market, easy-to-memorise lyrics can at least ensure that songs last a few weeks on the charts

Express View: Taking on TB

March 30, 2024 07:15 IST

Latest factsheet on the disease is encouraging. Much more needs to be done to defeat the scourge

Express View on governance challenge in Delhi: Caution, please

March 30, 2024 07:10 IST

Kejriwal has to promptly find a successor, L-G should hold his horses on who should run Delhi

Express View on India’s falling fertility rate: A wake-up call

March 29, 2024 06:50 IST

Lancet report India should alert policymakers to ageing population’s needs

Express View: China, Pakistan and a fragile Corridor

March 29, 2024 07:47 IST

Spate of attacks in and around strategic sites, deaths of Chinese civilians, expose CPEC’s — and Pakistan’s — vulnerability

Daniel Kahneman — a psychologist among economists

March 29, 2024 06:45 IST

His contribution to economics has been in questioning the dominance of the assumption that all economic agents are rational

Express View: Not even over a beer

March 28, 2024 06:55 IST

AI tools are being developed to make the millennia-old beverage better. Taste and intoxication — once as subjective as poetry — will be reduced to numbers

Express View on SAD-BJP separation in Punjab: Two apart

March 28, 2024 06:50 IST

Many thought it was temporary. But the Akalis seem determined to regain their lost support base and BJP, which has finally got several Sikh leaders in its own ranks, will now be flexing its muscle