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Driving EV climate gains needs rethink on charging

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:47 PM IST

The benefit to climate by EVs in India is conditional. Prima facie, the absence of tailpipe emissions in EVs means reduction in direct vehicular carbon dioxide emissions (Shutterstock)

Semiconductor deal with the US a big strategic boost

FILE PHOTO: Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 24, 2024 08:26 PM IST

In Sri Lanka, a vote for change, political reform

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory, driven by public demand for an end to decades of misrule, marks a turning point for Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) (AP)

Updated on Sep 24, 2024 08:26 PM IST

Kolkata: With the SC on the ball and demands met, let normality prevail

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Kolkata: People take part in a protest march over the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor, in Kolkata, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI09_22_2024_000369A)

Published on Sep 24, 2024 03:59 PM IST

Tirupati: The world’s richest temple body is a battleground for politicians

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**EDS: SCRENSHOT VIA PTI VIDEOS** Tirupati: A priest performs the purification ritual 'Shanti Homam Panchagavya Prokshana' to undo the alleged desecrations that occurred at Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple during YSRCP government, at Tirumala in Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI09_23_2024_000107B)

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:15 AM IST

Explained: Indus Waters Treaty and why India is right to ask for a review

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In this Aug. 13, 2010 file photo, personnel of Border Road Organization and local volunteers work to stop the overflowing water of Indus river which was damaging a highway near Leh. Recently, India had formally notified Pakistan to “review” and “modify” the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) under Article XII (3) of the treaty. (PTI File Photo)

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Sri Lanka: New president’s primary challenge will be to set the economy right

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)

Published on Sep 24, 2024 07:00 AM IST

Securing the health, well-being of people

The success of Ayushman Bharat thus far reflects the hard work, dedication, and collaboration between the government, health care providers, and the people (Photo by Yogendra Kumar/Hindustan Times) (Yogendra Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Published on Sep 23, 2024 09:03 PM IST

Delhi’s changing stance on trade-labour linkages

Delaware: President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Quad Leaders Summit at Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, USA, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Published on Sep 24, 2024 12:03 AM IST

Listening to the inner voice for inner peace

31 October 1974 - Jayaprakash Narayan Addressing a Rally - HT Photo by Rane Prakash.

Published on Sep 24, 2024 12:05 AM IST

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Hindustan Times marks 100 years of quality journalism

Celebrating a century of journalism, the Hindustan Times has not only survived but thrived in a rapidly changing media landscape.

Published on Sep 23, 2024 07:47 PM IST

Frequent elections ensure participation and vibrancy of India’s democracy

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Kashmir, India - September. 21, 2024: An election officer applies indelible ink mark on the finger of Bibi, 87, before casting her vote from home, as the Election Commission of India (ECI) initiated a home voting facility for the elderly in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections in Srinagar,on September 21,2024.(Photo By Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times)--

Published on Sep 23, 2024 09:00 AM IST

Grand Strategy | Shift in Europe’s framing of the Ukraine conflict

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Emergency services workers look to move rubble and find injured after a Russian strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine early Sunday Sept. 22, 2024. (Kharkiv Regional Military Administration via AP)

Published on Sep 23, 2024 07:00 AM IST

In the high voter turnout in J&K polls, a hope for peace

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J&K goes to polls in three phases starting September 18. (File)

Published on Sep 22, 2024 10:27 PM IST

What a false quote about Bengal reveals about our past

The eager or embittered babu may have been the most visible consequence of English learning in Calcutta, but the same books produced a very different outcome in the Native States

Updated on Sep 23, 2024 05:15 PM IST

India’s resounding paralympic success must lead to a wider conversation

Avani Lekhara in Paris: New standards in sporting excellence

Published on Sep 22, 2024 08:15 AM IST

Just Like That | Power and loyalty: The wheel of history

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Powerful leader fall for self-serving and transient genuflection

Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:15 AM IST

Hindustan Times @100: an inside-out perspective

The constants in newsrooms such as Hindustan Times are editorial independence and the commitment to journalistic principles

Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:00 AM IST

Behind that fading Hindi movie magic

Jaipur: Actors Rajkumar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor address a press conference of film 'Stree -2', in Jaipur, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 08:20 PM IST

Sita, a man of wit who stood by what he said

Kolkata: In this Thursday, May 12, 2022 file image, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury addresses a rally of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists for the 11th All India Conference, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) (PTI)

Published on Sep 21, 2024 08:20 PM IST

Keeping up with UP | Migrants in focus for Mumbai poll battle

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Migrants comprise 43.02% of Mumbai’s 23.5 million heaving urban mass, according to the 2011 Census. (Photo by Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)

Published on Sep 21, 2024 06:58 PM IST

Negotiators could play a key role in reducing mistrust between Kukis and Meiteis

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New Delhi, India - Sept. 15, 2024: People take part in a protest orgainsed by Delhi Meetei Co-ordinating Committee over recent violence in Manipur, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, on Sunday, September 15, 2024. (Photo by Sanjeev Verma/ Hindustan Times)

Published on Sep 21, 2024 08:00 AM IST

PM Modi’s crucial US visit in a time of global uncertainty

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(FILES) US President Joe Biden (2nd-L), Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd-R), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) announce the Quad Fellowship, a scholarship program that will bring together American, Japanese, Australian and Indian masters and doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to study in the United States, during the Quad Leaders Summit at Kantei in Tokyo on May 24, 2022. Biden will host the leaders of allies Australia, India and Japan in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on September 21, 2024, for talks focused on tensions with China, the White House said on September 12. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki / POOL / AFP)

Published on Sep 21, 2024 08:00 AM IST

On the Arctic, India must think beyond just energy

(FILES) The tops and trunks of scarred trees stand in a dense forest, above The Arctic Circle, in Finnish Lapland near Kumpu on October 7, 2022, where during the last 20 years Scandinavian Arctic forests have been the target of an increasing amount of wood bugs, due to longer summers. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Sep 20, 2024 09:41 PM IST

Trump vs Harris battle is more than an election

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 20, 2024 and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 15, 2024 are seen in a combination of file photographs. REUTERS/Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 20, 2024 09:40 PM IST

In Sri Lanka, a close three-way battle for office

Supporters of Sri Lanka's president and United National Party presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe, wave the country's national flag during an election rally ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in Colombo on August 28, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Sep 20, 2024 09:39 PM IST

Economics has a monopoly problem, but possibly not because of Ivy Leagues

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The real reason economics has not been able to make a positive contribution to the real world is not academic gatekeeping by the elite economists but political co-option and gatekeeping by the plutocracy across the world. REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi//File Photo

Published on Sep 20, 2024 06:51 PM IST

Building on the gains of Swachh Bharat Mission

Processing of waste is true only with the elimination of waste. It starts not at the processing plant, but with segregation at the source. (Kunal Patil/HT photo)

Published on Sep 19, 2024 09:06 PM IST

On semiconductor mission, learn from China’s missteps

FILE PHOTO: Semiconductor chips are seen on a printed circuit board in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

Published on Sep 19, 2024 08:46 PM IST

New grammar of India-US relations

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 22, 2023. The Washington Monument is seen in the distance (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) (AP)

Published on Sep 19, 2024 08:46 PM IST