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The BJP often portrays student protests as anti-national and undemocratic. Yet its own political rise was deeply rooted in the student movements of the 1970s, from Gujarat's Nav Nirman Andolan to Jayaprakash Narayan's call for Sampoorna Kranti. This article revisits that overlooked history and examines the striking contrast between the protests once celebrated by the Sangh Parivar and the protests it condemns today.
Pakistan's recent surge in satellite launches, including the hyperspectral HS-1 and the PRSC series, has drawn the attention of defence analysts. Although officially presented as civilian Earth observation missions, experts note that such satellites have significant dual-use potential, making them an increasingly important factor in South Asia's evolving strategic and military balance.
Pakistan has commissioned a new Hangor class submarine, reviving the name of the vessel that sank INS Khukri in 1971 and claimed the lives of 176 Indian sailors. While India's naval superiority remains unquestioned, the arrival of AIP-equipped submarines, growing Pakistan-Bangladesh defence ties, and delays in India's own conventional submarine modernisation raise important strategic questions for the future of the Bay of Bengal. Written from the perspective of a retired Indian Navy sailor, this article remembers the sacrifice of the men of INS Khukri while examining the changing maritime balance in the region.
The conflict between Iran and the United States is no longer just a military or geopolitical issue. Its effects are rapidly spreading through global oil markets, trade routes, currencies, and financial systems. As tensions around the Strait of Hormuz continue, India may face one of the biggest economic challenges in recent years. Rising crude oil prices, a weakening Rupee, widening trade deficits, inflationary pressure, capital outflows, and a possible "Triple Deficit Risk" could reshape the country's economic landscape. The battlefield may be thousands of kilometres away, but the economic shockwaves may eventually reach every Indian household.
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?
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.
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.
Greenland is no longer a frozen afterthought on the world map. As China tightens its grip on critical minerals and the United States moves to block Beijing’s Arctic ambitions, the world’s largest island has become a frontline in a new great power contest. For India, this quiet struggle in the far north carries urgent lessons about supply chains, strategic autonomy, and the real geography of power.
India faces a major shock from the Trump administration’s $100,000 one-time H1B visa fee, up from $2,000–5,000, hitting the IT sector where Indians hold 72% of 320,000 jobs, affecting firms like Amazon and Infosys with higher costs and fewer workers. This threatens $37.5 billion of the $135.4 billion FY25 remittances from the US, vital for Maharashtra and Kerala. The US revocation of the Chabahar Port sanctions waiver on September 29, 2025, risks India’s ₹800 crore trade corridor to Central Asia. Amid diplomatic tensions and US troop moves, a crisis meeting on September 23, 2025, aims to spur reforms and agility.
In an extraordinary first for global politics, Nepal has chosen its new Prime Minister, Sushila Karki, by a vote on Discord—an event propelled by Gen Z activism following mass protests and social media bans. With over 130,000 young citizens casting digital ballots, Karki, a revered former chief justice, now leads the nation as its first woman Prime Minister. This political “internet-native revolution” signals a new era of youth-driven democracy and technological empowerment in South Asia.
In early September 2025, thousands of students from Assam's Koch, Rajbanshi, and Moran communities took to the streets in Tinsukia and Dhubri, demanding long-promised Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and greater autonomy. Their protests, marked by torchlight processions and a district-wide bandh, were met with police lathi-charges, leaving many injured and sparking outrage. Despite decades of unfulfilled government promises and a conspicuous silence from mainstream media, the resolve of these indigenous groups remains unshaken. With Prime Minister Modi's visit looming, the call for ST status, a separate Kamatapur state, and Sixth Schedule inclusion grows louder, exposing deep-seated frustrations and a broader national pattern of suppressing youth dissent.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi last week, signaling a new phase in Brussels’ approach to sanctions and trade amid rising U.S. tariff threats.
In the next few paragraphs, I will lay out a minute-by-minute, year-by-year, date-by-date account for you that may shock you. Names like Peter Haas, Donald Lu, and Yunus Khan will appear in this story. Additionally, St. Martin Island in Bangladesh plays a crucial role. You will understand everything, step by step.
On October 7, 2023, Israel experienced shocking terrorist attacks that caught the world's attention. Mossad's failure in preventing these attacks served as a global wake-up call. Despite its substantial budget and workforce, Mossad couldn't anticipate the well-planned attack that left hundreds dead. This article delves into the events leading up to the attack, highlighting the deception, coordination, and challenges faced by Israeli intelligence. It also touches on the political climate in Israel, where turmoil provided cover for Hamas's preparations. The article concludes with a sobering outlook on the conflict's potential escalation and the hope for peace.
Protests are spreading against the banks. People are getting sick of the Government's incompetence. The CCP is so afraid that it has brought out tanks to maintain stability. 2022 is not being kind to the Chinese economy.
India has exported goods worth more than $100 billion in last quarter, that is 720,000 crores in Indian Rupees. In the last six months, India has exported goods worth so much as the economy of the whole of Pakistan. That means in one year India sells two Pakistans. This will increase in the coming days. India would sell 3-4 Pakistans in a year very soon.
