War in West Asia spotlights a growing risk for Indian seafarers: Abandonment 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 08:08AM
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War in West Asia spotlights a growing risk for Indian seafarers: Abandonment
When the going gets tough, many commercial ship owners simply abandon their vessels and crew. Indians are the worst affected by this.
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Post-IEEPA: Why the US has launched Section 301 investigation into India, 15 others 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 10:43AM
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Post-IEEPA: Why the US has launched Section 301 investigation into India, 15 others
USTR said that it formally initiated the investigations on March 11 and on May 5, the Section 301 Committee will convene public hearings. Fresh tariffs could be imposed on India and other countries after May
Pakistan’s two-front crisis: Caught between Afghanistan and Iran wars, what are Islamabad’s options 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 10:51AM
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Pakistan’s two-front crisis: Caught between Afghanistan and Iran wars, what are Islamabad’s options
What is at stake for Pakistan in Iran, and what does it hope to achieve in Afghanistan? Does the churn offer Pakistan a silver lining?
What are Chinese ‘Xiaokang’ Villages, which are coming up in contested areas along LAC? 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 10:58AM
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What are Chinese ‘Xiaokang’ Villages, which are coming up in contested areas along LAC?
China has been constructing 628 such Xiaokang or 'well-off villages' along India’s borders with the Tibet Autonomous Region for over five years now. These have been constructed all along the LAC
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Explained: How India is trying to regulate children’s social media use — and why gaps remain 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 02:24PM
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Explained: How India is trying to regulate children’s social media use — and why gaps remain
India has a patchwork of laws, regulatory frameworks and platform-led interventions to safeguard young users online. But experts say enforcement gaps and the ease with which children can misrepresent their age pose challenges
Rupee, inflation, growth: How global energy shock threatens India’s Goldilocks era 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 03:19PM
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Rupee, inflation, growth: How global energy shock threatens India’s Goldilocks era
The last few years, starting with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have shown it’s not just the financial markets that are vulnerable to global shocks but the economy…
Why SC ordered a ‘no fault’ compensation policy for Covid vaccine side-effects 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 03:47PM
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Why SC ordered a ‘no fault’ compensation policy for Covid vaccine side-effects
The court was hearing petitions led by people who lost their children or spouses to rare complications shortly after receiving Covid vaccines in 2021. Here's what it has ordered, and why.
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SC verdict on parental income as OBC creamy layer criterion: What has court said, what changes 🔍
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📆March 12, 2026 at 06:54PM
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SC verdict on parental income as OBC creamy layer criterion: What has court said, what changes
Those included in the 'creamy layer' are not entitled to OBC reservation benefits. Here's what the court has said about equivalence between children of PSUs and private sector employees and those in the government sector.
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Insurance underwriters say fear brought shipping to a halt, not coverage 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 12:39AM
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Passage of ships via Strait of Hormuz grinds to a halt despite insurance availability: Here’s why
“Most prominent is shipping in the Straits of Hormuz where trade has been halted, not by a lack of available insurance, but by obvious safety concerns,” said Chris Jones, Chief Executive of the International Underwriting Association.
ExplainSpeaking: Understanding the ‘discrepancies’ in India’s new GDP data 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 06:30AM
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ExplainSpeaking: Understanding the ‘discrepancies’ in India’s new GDP data
The outgoing GDP series, adopted in 2015, led to controversy. But, even with the new series, questions arise about the data and rising 'discrepancies', which officially capture the gap in calculations related to the real GDP.
Expert Explains: China’s softer reaction to war in Iran compared to Venezuela, and its concerns 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 07:00AM
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Expert Explains: China’s softer reaction to war in Iran compared to Venezuela, and its concerns
Many analysts believed the US-Israel war on Iran would hurt the world’s second-largest economy. As Operation Epic Fury slips into its third week, here is what to make of China’s response and interests.
An Expert Explains | Iran war: ‘Oil reserves are sufficient… LNG reserves are the greater concern’ 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 07:00AM
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Expert Explains | Iran war: ‘Oil reserves are sufficient… LNG reserves are the greater concern’
The war has reduced energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz to a trickle. What could be the way out? An expert unpacks this and more
Explained: Changes in India’s FDI policy for Land Bordering Countries, including China, and who stands to gain 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 11:50AM
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Explained: Changes in India’s FDI policy for Land Bordering Countries, including China, and who stands to gain
The 2020 restrictions were primarily meant for Chinese investors. New amendments aim to boost India’s export competitiveness, and come amid the larger attempt to stabilise ties.
How Iran’s use of naval mines in Strait of Hormuz points to its asymmetric warfare against US-Israel 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 01:26PM
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How Iran’s use of naval mines in Strait of Hormuz points to its asymmetric warfare against US-Israel
Nearly a fifth of the world’s oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran’s attacks on some of these ships since February 28 have proven a major deterrent for all commercial activity here. Here is what to know.
Iran war: As oil prices soar, why US is considering pausing a century-old maritime rule 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 01:32PM
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Iran war: As oil prices soar, why US is considering pausing a century-old maritime rule
Jones Act requires all cargo ships in America to be carried aboard vessels that are US-built, US-flagged and US-owned.
IRGC: How a paramilitary force became one of Iran’s most powerful organisations 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 02:35PM
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IRGC: How a paramilitary force became one of Iran’s most powerful organisations
Formed in 1979 with the initial aim of safeguarding the Islamic Revolution, IRGC directly answers to the Supreme Leader. Today, it has its own ministry, a complex bureaucracy, and diversified functions in multiple spheres.
Russia is not fighting West Asia war, but is its real winner — thanks to crude windfall 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 03:40PM
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Russia is not fighting West Asia war, but is its real winner — thanks to crude windfall
Till a few days back, millions of barrels of Russian crude were languishing on the high seas with few willing buyers. But since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Moscow is estimated to have earned around $150 million a day in extra oil revenue
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Graphs, Data and Perspectives: How costly will the US-Iran war be? 🔍
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📆March 13, 2026 at 07:10PM
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Graphs, Data and Perspectives: How costly will the US-Iran war be?
In this week's 'GDP: Graphs, Data and Perspectives', Udit Misra writes that in the first six days of the war on Iran, the US and Israel had spent over Rs 1.3 lakh crore. For reference, India’s entire defence budget for 2026 is Rs 7.8 lakh crore. But even…
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Why foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks, pushing rupee down 🔍
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📆March 14, 2026 at 04:10AM
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Why foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks, pushing rupee down
This, in essence, is why Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have continued to dump Indian shares amid the war in West Asia and volatile crude oil prices, dragging down the Indian rupee, which hit a new all-time low of 92.48 per dollar on Friday.
Two wars, two similar timelines, two rules: How money and power shape sport’s response 🔍
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📆March 14, 2026 at 06:00AM
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Two wars, two similar timelines, two rules: How money and power shape sport’s response
Two wars, two strikingly similar timelines. In one case, world sport moved swiftly to sanction Russia. Four years later, the same organisations are taking a far more cautious approach to the US-Israel attacks on Iran.