The Hindu Editorial

The Centre cannot continue to evade(बचना) its legal obligation to create a mechanism to implement(लागू/अमल में लाना) the Supreme Court’s final verdict(निर्णय) in the Cauvery dispute(विवाद). This was the broad message conveyed(सूचित करना) by the court on Monday when it admonished(चेताया/धिक्कारना) the government...

Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s visit to India signals an important recalibration of bilateral(द्विपक्षीय) ties(संबंधों). While the focus of the official pronouncements(घोषणाओं/मत) has been on connectivity, it is the perceptible absence(अनुपस्थिति/अभाव) of tensions in public interactions(बातचीत) and official...

The arrest of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his conviction(दोषसिद्धि) in a corruption case is a blow to his Workers’ Party, which hopes to return to power in the...

The stiff(कठोर/कठिन) sentence of five years in jail awarded to actor Salman Khan for hunting blackbuck in Rajasthan’s Kankani village in 1998 should send out the message that stardom does not confer(प्रदान करना/मन्त्रणा करना) impunity(माफी). Unlike...

The Reserve Bank of India’s policymakers have acted predictably(जाहिर) in opting to keep interest rates unchanged and in retaining(रोकना/बनाए रखने की) the ‘neutral’ stance(मुद्रा/रुख). Price stability, after all, remains the Monetary Policy Committee’s primary remit(छूट देना/प्रेषण करना), and trend...

The loss of nine lives in violent(हिंसा करनेवाला) protests against the Supreme Court ruling introducing safeguards(सुरक्षा उपायों)against misuse of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is tragic(दुखद/भयंकर).Clearly, both the Centre...

The loss of communication between the ground station and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s latest satellite after its launch on March 29 is deeply disappointing(निराशाजनक). ISRO’s mission aimed to place the communication...

It is unfortunate that the Cauvery dispute(विवाद/विचार) is once again before the Supreme Court, barely(मुश्किल से/मात्र) weeks after the final verdict(निर्णय). The Centre is to blame for the dispute going into another round of litigation(मुकदमेबाजी). While Tamil Nadu has...

Nine months after the Union Cabinet’s in-principle nod for offloading the government’s stake in Air India, the ball has finally been set rolling to privatise the bleeding airline. A preliminary information memorandum(ज्ञापन/स्मृतिपत्र) was...

The Union Cabinet this week approved six out of the dozens of changes to the contentious National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill that were suggested by a Parliamentary Standing Committee earlier this...