West Bengal's University Transfer Bill: Reform, Centralisation or a Threat to Academic Autonomy?

Rupee on Life Support Inside the RBI’s Escalating Crisis Playbook

India’s central bank is pulling out one emergency measure after another to defend the rupee, from burning through billions in reserves to shutting down speculative trades and bypassing major dollar demand. The currency’s brief recoveries are not signs of strength but the result of aggressive intervention, raising a deeper question: how long can this defense hold, and at what cost?

The Island No One Talks About - And Why Iran Just Reset the Threat Perception for Many Parts of the World

Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia this week, the remote but heavily fortified American military base in the Indian Ocean. Both failed to strike their target. But the real shock was not the attack itself — it was the distance. Tehran had publicly claimed a maximum missile range of 2,000 kilometres. Diego Garcia sits 4,000 kilometres away. In a single strike, Iran quietly rewrote the threat map for every military base, energy hub, and allied installation across the Gulf, South Asia, and Europe. The warheads missed. The warning did not.

How Iran Is Defeating the American Financial Empire

Every single month, the New York Federal Reserve loads billions of dollars in crisp, physical hundred-dollar bills onto military cargo planes and flies them across the world to Baghdad. Washington calls it economic assistance. Tehran calls it a delivery service. Meanwhile, deep inside Iran, hundreds of thousands of computer servers run twenty-four hours a day, burning gas that no Western buyer is legally allowed to purchase, converting stranded energy into Bitcoin at a cost of $1,300 per coin and selling it on the global market for sixty or seventy thousand dollars. A fifty-times return. The single most profitable energy arbitrage on planet Earth. The United States built the most sophisticated financial surveillance system in human history. It has sanctioned central banks, blockaded ports, and weaponised the dollar. And yet, the regime it most wants to suffocate is simultaneously mining a sanction-proof digital currency with its own trapped oil and collecting physical American cash through a network of fake invoices at a daily auction in Baghdad. Washington knows. The CIA has tracked it for a decade. But stopping it would collapse Iraq and hand the entire country to Iranian proxies. The empire is not being defeated by missiles. It is being bled to death by Bitcoin miners and fake refrigerator invoices. Read the full analysis below.

Donald Trump: The Gorbachev of America? How Tariffs and "America First" Could Pave China’s Path to Superpower Status

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 is often attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), which, despite their good intentions, inadvertently accelerated systemic weaknesses. Today, Donald Trump’s economic nationalism—particularly his tariff-driven "America First" agenda—risks triggering a similar unravelling for the United States. While Trump’s policies are framed as protecting American jobs and industries, they function more like an "America Only" strategy that isolates the U.S., destabilises its economy, and empowers rivals like China. Trump’s tariffs harm U.S. citizens, benefit foreign producers, and position China to dominate the 21st-century global order.

Narendra Modi's Leadership: A Pattern of U-Turns, Selective Justice, and Foreign Policy Inconsistencies