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Can the ICJ ruling force rich nations to pay for historical emissions?
On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion reaffirming states’ legal obligations to mitigate climate chan...
Should India relax its adoption procedures?
By analysing data from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), The Hindu data team recently found that for every child free for adoption in In...
Should political leaders retire at 75?
The suggestion of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat last week that leaders should step aside at the age of 75 triggered a debate....
Are existing mechanisms effective in preventing custodial violence?
The gruesome death of security guard Ajith Kumar, 27, while in police custody in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district last month, is yet another grim addit...
Is U.S. imperialism a threat to the world?
Beginning with the Maharashtra Assembly elections last year, Opposition parties have made many allegations regarding manipulations in electoral rolls....
Is voter registration being subject to fraud?
Beginning with the Maharashtra Assembly elections last year, Opposition parties have made many allegations regarding manipulations in electoral rolls....
Will delaying the Census affect its implementation?
On June 16, the Registrar General of India under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification that India’s population will be counted in 2...
Is Bangladesh slipping into authoritarianism?
On June 7, on the eve of Eid ul Azha, the Chief Adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, delivered a televised address to...
Should India amend its nuclear energy laws?
Discussions are ongoing in India to amend both the country’s nuclear liability framework, regulated by the 2010 Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Ac...
Is the three-year practice mandate for judicial service welcome?
On May 20, 2025, the Supreme Court restored a minimum of three years of legal practice as a mandatory condition to apply for entry-level judicial serv...
Is establishing the truth a problem during a conflict?
Parallel to the escalation of the recent military tensions between India and Pakistan, misinformation and disinformation surged online, making it incr...
Is Bihar’s high replacement rate a consequence of poverty?
According to the Sample Registration System report for 2021 released by the Registrar General of India on May 7, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR), which...
Can parents keep tabs on the social media use of teens?
The recent death of a young entrepreneur, who reportedly took the extreme step after she lost followers on social media, is sufficient reason for us t...
Has the Pahalgam attack crossed a red line?
The calculated brutality of the terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir appears to have crossed a red line for India-Pakistan ties that were al...
Is the World Trade Organization still relevant?
United States President Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ have been compared to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s, which many say hastened the s...
Are Indian startups not scaling up on innovation?
Recently, while speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said that startups were not innov...
Are existing mechanisms effective in combating judicial corruption?
Last month, unaccounted cash was reportedly recovered from the official residence of former Delhi High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma. In respons...
Should India reduce tariffs given the U.S. moves?
U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to impose reciprocal tariffs on many countries, including India, has caused significant uncertainty in the global e...
Should the free movement regime between India and Myanmar remain?
In February 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border would be scrapped but there has...
Should immigrants have the same right to protest as citizens?
Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian doctoral student at Columbia University, left the U.S. on March 11, 2025, following the revocation of her student visa b...
Is learning a third language, especially Hindi, necessary?
The National Education Policy, 2020, encourages students up to at least Class 5 to learn a regional language in addition to the local language or moth...
Is Artificial Intelligence affecting critical thinking skills?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly being used in classrooms around the world. Last month, British universities were warned to “stress...
Will the U.S. change in its Ukraine policy end the Russia-Ukraine war?
On February 19, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh in a dramatic reversal of the previous U.S. a...
Is there a right to take offence? | The Hindu parley podcast
The popular YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has sparked controversy after criminal proceedings were initiated against its creators and participants...
Is appointing ad-hoc judges a viable means to reduce backlog?
The Supreme Court on January 30, 2025, permitted High Courts to appoint retired judges on an ad-hoc basis to address the mounting backlog of cases. Ho...
Should India build a sovereign, foundational AI model?
In 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s remarks in India on the cost of training foundational AI models — like the ones that power ChatGPT — sparked a debate...
Has the INDIA bloc lost its vitality after the Lok Sabha polls?
The INDIA bloc managed to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from reaching the majority mark in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, it went o...
Is poverty being underestimated in India?
Last month, the government released a factsheet on the 2023-24 Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), which recorded a decline in poverty in...
Has T20 cricket deskilled Indian batting?
India’s 1-3 loss in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy marked the end of its decade-long dominance in the series against Australia. This was not an exception;...
Is India open to the idea of dual citizenship?
At an event in December, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said there are a lot of challenges in providing dual citizenship to Indians settled a...
Should voter ID be linked with Aadhaar to combat voter fraud?
On December 29, 2024, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused each other of manipulating the Delhi electoral rolls in a...
Should wealth tax be brought back to address inequality in India?
At a recent panel discussion in New Delhi, French economist Thomas Piketty suggested that a wealth and inheritance tax be imposed on the super-rich in...
Should legislatures in India have fixed tenures?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 17, 2024, mandates a fixed five-year ter...
Should the executive have the power to pardon?
United States President Joe Biden’s recent decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden for any federal crimes he committed or may have committed between J...
Is Israel’s war in Gaza putting the global order at peril?
Nearly 400 days since the October 7 attacks on Israel that led to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, West Bank, and Lebanon, more than 43,000 have been...
Do new schemes ahead of elections amount to ‘voter bribes’?
On November 23, the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance won a landslide victory in Maharashtra Assembly elections. Among several re...
Is social media doing more harm than good to democracy?
The U.K.’s The Guardian newspaper announced earlier this month that it will no longer be posting on X, claiming that it is “a toxic media platform” an...
Are pro-natalist policies the way to address the ageing population problem?
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu recently expressed concern about Andhra Pradesh’s ageing population and urged the people of his Sta...
Should chess be an Olympic sport?
India won a historic double gold at the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, by clinching the top spot in both the open event and women’s team co...
Has the Congress internalised its message of social justice?
The Congress’ social justice platform, centred around the call for equal representation at the caste-level and a nationwide caste census, has been hai...