The editorial desk’s view, argued from the reporting.
The Amir Shokeen video has led to an arrest. Anjel Chakma's death in Dehradun led to five. Neither should be needed to make the point that people from the Northeast are citizens, not punchlines, and the law should say so plainly.
A chloroform leak at Saraka Laboratories went unnoticed until two men collapsed. Compensation was settled within hours; what caused the leak, and who will answer for it, is still unsaid.
The DGHS says some private and corporate hospitals are sterilising and reusing devices made for a single procedure. A letter to the states is a start. Patients need inspections, penalties and the right to know what was used on them.
SBI told the stock exchanges about its leak first and its customers later. The RBI should not wait for the data protection law to take effect: it should make prompt notice to affected customers a binding rule now.
Margin calls helped drive the Nifty Smallcap 100 down 7.4% in a week. Lending to buy shares has grown far faster than the safeguards around it, and SEBI's June proposals would let it grow further. The regulator should look at the risk first.
Five people, three of them children, were killed when firecrackers being made in a Bihar home exploded on Friday. Deesa and Harda showed the same failure. Information about illegal units must lead to inspections, not inquiries after the funerals.
The Bombay High Court has ordered ₹5 lakh for a Mumbai man jailed for 26 days on a case the police built after arresting him. The order is right. What will stop the next such arrest is making the people responsible actually pay.
Leh and Kargil threw out the Home Ministry's draft in two hours; the next round then quietly did not happen. A sensitive border region deserves a timetable and a draft built on what was agreed in May.
About 1,000 families were removed from three reserved forests in Golaghat, Hojai and Nagaon in drives announced on Tuesday. Clearing encroached forest land is a legitimate aim; doing it without saying where people will go is not good government.
A 28-year-old man died and more than 100 people were hurt at this year's Banni Utsav in Kurnool. Orders and awareness drives have not stopped the fight. Rules agreed with the villages that hold it might make it safer.
Telangana's electoral roll is on course to lose about 88 lakh names in the Special Intensive Revision. Some of those deletions will be right. Before the final roll on 9 November, every voter struck off deserves to know why, and a fair chance to come back.
The I&B ministry has warned private channels over unnamed breaches of the Programme Code and told them to keep AI 'assistive'. The concerns are fair. But rules for the newsroom should be public, precise and enforced through a process channels and viewers can see.
The Centre may well be right that the land is its own. But a heritage-listed building that the state's own gazette records as waqf should not fall on a week's notice, with its lights cut and nobody legally able to defend it.
Houthi strikes have shut Riyadh's airport and Indian airlines have suspended Saudi flights. Elderly pilgrims are paying for a gap in the rules: Haj is tightly organised by the state, Umrah is left almost entirely to private operators.
For the second year running, the UN filled 15 seats on its top human rights body with exactly 15 candidates. Clean slates spare governments embarrassment; they also spare bad records any scrutiny.
Forecasters say the capital's air turns 'poor' from today, as it does every year at this time. Farm fires are rising in states that were not watched closely, machines sit idle and satellites go blind after 3 pm. The fixes are known; what is missing is the habit of acting before the haze.
Haryana Police ruled out a hate crime within hours of the attack near Nilokheri. A second Srinagar-bound bus was stoned near Ludhiana the next night. Whatever the motive, the people who use this highway need to see that both attacks are taken seriously.
The monsoon failed across much of India, the east had its driest season on record, and El Niño is expected to stay into next year. Relief is arriving piecemeal and late. The Centre should treat this as the national emergency it is becoming.
Only 12 of 206 forest watcher posts are filled at one of India's finest tiger reserves. Karnataka, and every state with a reserve, must recruit, train and pay the people who walk the forest before poachers notice the gap.
A young biker who hit a child was beaten to death, and Dalit families in his village then lost their homes to arson. Bihar has the laws and the Supreme Court's 2018 rules to stop this. What it needs is police who act in the first hour, not the second day.
Overturned SUVs in Punganur, burnt cars in Rayachoti and claims of seized papers across the state have marred the start of Andhra Pradesh's local body polls. Before anyone votes on 28 October, the State Election Commission owes voters a public account of who was allowed to stand.
Nobody outside government has seen the order that pulled a Bluetooth messaging app from Indian phones. The Kerala High Court has now asked for reasons. Secret blocking was never part of the bargain the Supreme Court struck in 2015.
The Allahabad High Court has told the state to hold panchayat elections within three months. The government's reasons for delay are real but not new, and the Constitution does not let a village council outlive its five years.
Nineteen people died outside a Kolkata puja pandal on Saturday night, the latest in a long line of Indian crowd disasters. Every big gathering should have a public crowd plan, a counted capacity and someone accountable for it.
The regulator's draft bars added sucrose and fructose only in products for the youngest infants. The cereals at the centre of the 2024 sugar row are eaten after that age, and the rule should follow them.
India's cyber security agency says autonomous AI agents read business records and personal data in Indian organisations without permission, and that not one of the victims spotted it. An advisory is a start. Rules on reporting, testing and basic security must follow.
Bhagwant Mann says the state has been unfairly blamed for drugs. He has a point about the border and the Centre's share of the job. But the answer to a bad reputation is evidence, and his government is sitting on the biggest survey Punjab has ever done.
The court called the regulator a 'mere bystander' while risky bonds were sold to ordinary customers. Before it says another word about the AT-1 write-off, the RBI should explain what it saw, and what it will change at bank branches.
Jantar Mantar has been struck off the list, Central Park is shut, and prohibitory orders cover Connaught Place. Delhi needs protest sites people can actually reach, rules that are written down, and protesters who keep the peace.
The Sensex rallied on Thursday on talk that the war will end soon. India's oil, fertiliser, freight and remittances all run through a region the IMF says will not return to its pre-war path. Policy should assume the strait stays shut for months.
Twenty-eight children died under a collapsed roof in Peshawar on Thursday. Fifteen months ago seven died the same way in Jhalawar. Audits ordered after a tragedy are not enough; parents should be able to see whether their child's classroom is safe.
The killing of Parvinder Jhota in Mansa is a crime that must be punished quickly. It is also a warning. When people believe the state will not act on drug sellers, they act themselves, and the results can be fatal on every side.
Thirteen children drowned in the Ganga on Tuesday night. Compensation is not a safety policy. The state knows where people cross the river, and it can make those crossings safer before the next flood season.
Two Indian sailors are missing and three Indian-crewed tankers have been hit in three days. Consent is not enough of a policy. The government owes crews hard guarantees, and it should use its standing in both Tehran and Washington.
Online shoppers spent about ₹24,000 crore in two days, much of it from smaller towns. That is good news. But the same week brought 5.54% retail inflation and onions at double last year's price. Policy should be guided by the second number, not the first.
The CJP must keep its marches peaceful. The state must stop treating them as a threat. And the Election Commission must answer the question at the heart of them.
A three-member Commission that says its members disagree in the normal course should let voters see those disagreements, as the RBI and the courts already do.
The Monsoon Session met for 19 days and passed 11 Bills, most without a single speech. Both sides of the House helped bring this about, and both can fix it.
India's data regulator has existed in law for nearly 11 months without a single member. The government should name them this year, so the Board is ready well before May 2027.
Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, a worker cannot easily find out which rules apply in their own state. A public tracker and dated state timetables would fix that.
Census 2027 will record every Indian's caste for the first time since 1931. The Registrar General should commit now to a release date, a published coding method and full tables.
A small rate increase now is cheaper than a large one later. The government's job is to make sure its own accounts do not add to the price pressure the RBI is trying to contain.
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