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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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India needs cross-sector policy making. PM Modi’s Gati Shakti is good but still ad hoc

In India, where the right hand often doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, Gati Shakti is a major but still partial reform.

Govts can think big and act fast on urgent issues. But it won’t work until they start small

The failure of governments to find multilateral solutions to global problems means that significant challenges are being neglected.

India needs citizens’ commission on Covid mess to seek answers on vaccines, 2nd wave

Citizens’ commissions have no political bias and their reports become available in the shortest possible time— Delhi, Gujarat riot panels are a proof.

A+++ to D – How China rates its citizens. Drunk driving can take you way down

In ‘How Should A Government Be’, Jaideep Prabhu writes China's ominous Social Credit system is a vision of what’s in store for us. Whether you are Left or Right, it matters whether your government does.

If political decentralisation is good for Jammu and Kashmir, why not for the rest of India

China’s single-party model enables inner party control, as an additional instrument, to ensure governance effectiveness across long implementation chains.

Govt bans 42 groups including LeT, JeM for involvement in terrorist activities

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, Union Minister of State G Kishan Reddy said that terrorism in India has largely been sponsored from across the border.

Modi govt’s heavy-handed counter to protests wrong. Disha Ravi’s frantic arrest unwise

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

IAS officers are not lazy ‘babus’. Time to reject the colonial slang

In his Parliament speech, PM Modi came down heavily on the ‘babu culture’ in India. But who made civil servants ‘babus’ in the first place?

Modi is right: Government deserves no credit for bringing Covid under control in India

It is not government action or even the people’s resolve that brought Covid under control in India. It’s just luck, and herd immunity.

General Naravane erred by mentioning PM, he should know what Nehru told Cariappa

Despite attempts to cultivate a pliant hierarchy, the military remained apolitical. But now, it is under the onslaught of nationalism-driven ideology.

On Camera

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

SRK's impromptu party looked refreshingly ‘normal’ and as cool as the Birthday Boy himself. King of Kool could be another tag for the man who once declared himself 'the last of the stars'.

Nvidia worth $5 trillion: What does it mean for the market?

The chipmaker at the heart of the AI revolution may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. Nvidia has been the primary driver of the market’s gains since the start of 2023.

Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.