A speaking ban alongside the demotion signals containment, not a reshuffle The Aam Aadmi Party removed Raghav Chadha as its deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha on 2 April 2026, replacing him with Ashok Mittal, a Punjab MP and founder of Lovely Professional University. The party wrote to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, formalising the change. […]
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The conflict that began on 28 February 2026 rewrote every assumption about deterrence, diplomacy, and who controls the Middle East’s choke points The dominant narrative of the Iran-US war runs as follows: America and Israel launched surgical strikes, Iran retaliated, and now diplomacy is scrambling to catch up. That version is not wrong. It is
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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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