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Ranjit Bhushan

ARTICLES BY RANJIT BHUSHAN

Election officers demonstrate the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) ahead of the Bihar Assembly Election 2025, in Patna. The use of EVMs saved approximately 11,520 tonnes of paper during the 2024 elections, according to the Election Commission.
(Photo by Santosh Kumar/ Hindustan Times)

Who is Heera Lal Patel IAS? Meet the bureaucrat who conducts Green Elections

3 min read . 22 Oct 2025

Congress activists carrying posters shout slogans during a protest rally in Kolkata on August 12, 2025, to condemn alleged electoral malpractices and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. (AFP)

21% MP, MLAs, MLCs in India are dynasts: ADR

4 min read . 21 Sept 2025

A virgin plastic food container manufacturing unit in Howrah district on the outskirts of Kolkata. The 50% punitive Donald Trump-inspired tariff regime could hurt India's manufacturing sector. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP) (AFP)

US tariffs: Govt aid critical for micro & small sectors, says expert

3 min read . 27 Aug 2025

PD Thankappan Acharya, former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha

Bills to remove PM, CM, ministers on criminal charges badly conceived: Expert

2 min read . 22 Aug 2025

Harjinder Singh is escorted onto an airplane by Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and law enforcement. (AP)

Indian truck drivers to be possibly worst hit by US pause on worker visas

2 min read . 22 Aug 2025

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar addresses a press conference on Bihar Special Intensive Revision at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on August 17. (ANI Photo/Jitender Gupta) (Jitender Gupta)

Impeachment move against CEC would lack numbers

3 min read . 18 Aug 2025

Students of Vidya Bal Bhavan Senior Secondary School in Mayur Vihar Phase-3 take out a Tiranga Yatra carrying a 100-foot-long tricolour as part of the Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan on Wednesday. The event was held to celebrate India’s upcoming Independence Day. (Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times)

India, Pakistan Independence Day celebrations: As different as chalk and cheese

2 min read . 14 Aug 2025

Stray dogs are pictured on a footpath in New Delhi on August 12, 2025. The Supreme Court on August 11 ordered the removal of tens of thousands of stray dogs from the capital, citing public safety concerns after a surge in dog bites. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (AFP)

SC on stray dogs: What the order says, how big is the menace, and other points

4 min read . 12 Aug 2025

People wait for their turn to get fuel at a petrol station in Peshawar, Pakistan. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo (REUTERS)

Why Trump’s oil deal with Pakistan has experts stumped

3 min read . 01 Aug 2025

Jagdeep Dhankhar (PTI) (HT_PRINT)

Dhankhar, the most controversial constitutional V-P in post-1947 India

4 min read . 22 Jul 2025

Patna, Jul 09 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during 'Bihar Bandh' called by the Mahagathbandhan against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, in Patna on Wednesday. CPI (ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya also seen. (ANI Photo) (AICC)

Son Rise: Tejaswi, Chirag, Prashant are Bihar’s new flavours as election looms

4 min read . 17 Jul 2025

A view of the city skyline filled with monsoon clouds, near Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, Rajasthan. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Why Rajasthan keeps redrawing its map — explained

3 min read . 16 Jul 2025

Patna District Magistrate Tyagrajan S.M. inspecting Mahadalit Tola of Shrirampur Panchayat of Korhar village of Bihta block and the progress in the distribution and collection of counting forms under the special intensive revision campaign of the electoral list at Bihta in Patna, Bihar, India, Wednesday,02. 2025.

Why EC's Bihar SIR exercise has received widespread criticism

5 min read . 08 Jul 2025

A traffic police personnel and a fuel attendant stand near a notice announcing the ban on refuelling petrol cars older than 15 years and diesel vehicles older than 10 years, displayed at a gas station in New Delhi on July 1, 2025. India's capital on July 1, banned fuel pump sales to ageing vehicles as part of measures to tackle the sprawling megacity's hazardous air pollution levels. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (AFP)

Delhi govt’s Air Pollution Mitigation could miss the mark: Expert

3 min read . 06 Jul 2025

Dalai Lama (HT_PRINT)

Dalai Lama’s succession puts Sino-Indian ties to test again

2 min read . 03 Jul 2025

Smoke rising from a site in Tehran reportedly hit by an Israeli airstrike early on June 13, 2025. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the strikes on Iran, stating that the military operation against the Islamic Republic would continue for as many days as it takes. (AFP)

Israel-Iran war: Who are the Indians travelling to or living in the 2 countries?

1 min read . 13 Jun 2025

The CJI is right in asserting that the timing and nature of many such post-retirement engagements carry the risk of creating the perception that decisions were influenced by the prospect of future appointments or political involvement. (PTI) (HT_PRINT)

CJI against judges taking plum posts after retirement, experts say rot runs deep

6 min read . 06 Jun 2025

A Harvard sign is seen at the Harvard University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025. There are roughly 788 Indian students currently enrolled at Harvard. (Photo by Rick Friedman / AFP)

Why Indian students in US have reasons to worry due to Donald Trump

3 min read . 04 Jun 2025

Indian Army Operations Room from where Operation Sindoor was being monitored by top military brass, including Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi, Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi and Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh.

Not much for civilian safety in India’s military doctrine

4 min read . 29 May 2025

Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir during a guard of honour ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. (Photo by HANDOUT / Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations/ AFP (AFP)

What Gen Munir’s elevation as Field Marshal means for India, explained

2 min read . 21 May 2025