Voice vote passage completes lower house budget role; Rajya Sabha consideration next The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2026 on Wednesday through a voice vote, incorporating 32 government amendments tabled during the Budget session. The passage completes the lower house’s role in the budgetary approval process. The bill now moves to the Rajya Sabha, […]
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From oil shocks to nuclear thresholds, a sustained Iran-US conflict restructures global order in ways most coverage is not mapping The dominant framing of the Iran-US war treats each exchange as a discrete event, a strike answered by a counterstrike, a crisis managed and then contained. This is the wrong unit of analysis. What is
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A five-day window opens, but Tehran’s mockery signals who holds the leverage Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States would hold off on any action against Iran’s nuclear facilities for five days, citing what he described as “very good” talks between the two sides. The pause came alongside reports of backchannel communications, with
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Tehran’s attacks on Bahrain, UAE, and Kuwait are not collateral damage; they are a deliberate pressure strategy with a precise logic The instinct is to frame Iran’s attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as either reckless desperation or the inevitable spillover of a larger war. Neither reading is accurate. The Iran
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Parliament’s revised income slabs promise relief but quietly redraw who files and who benefits The Union Budget’s income tax changes take effect from 1 April, reshaping the financial calculus for salaried employees, small business owners, and senior citizens across India. The nil-tax ceiling under the new regime rises to Rs 12 lakh, with a marginal
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How a Middle East conflict splits global markets, and why India’s response defies the standard emerging-market playbook The dominant reading of any Middle East conflict is simple: oil prices spike, markets fall, and emerging economies suffer most. This reading is not wrong. It is merely incomplete, and its incompleteness is exactly what causes investors and
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A Ghaziabad resident’s case rewrites who qualifies for passive euthanasia in India India’s Supreme Court has granted a Ghaziabad man the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment, even though he carries no terminal diagnosis. The bench ruled that his condition, marked by prolonged suffering and irreversible deterioration, meets the threshold established under the court’s own 2018
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A safety dispute over autonomous weapons has become a First Amendment battle Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits on Monday against the Trump administration, challenging the Pentagon’s decision to label the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company a national security threat. The suits, filed in California and the Washington D.C. appeals court, call the actions “unprecedented and
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A new DoD contract signals that OpenAI’s mass surveillance red line was always negotiable OpenAI has signed a contract with the United States Department of Defence that directly implicates its AI systems in large-scale monitoring operations. The company, which had explicitly prohibited the use of its models for mass surveillance in its usage policies, has
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From Eisenhower’s coup to Operation Midnight Hammer, how seven decades of miscalculation produced this moment The dominant framing of American strikes on Iran treats each episode as a reaction, a surgical response to Iranian provocation. This framing is wrong, not because Iran is blameless, but because it strips seventy years of American strategic choice from
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