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The fighting around the Strait of Hormuz is partly real and partly political. India should focus on buying oil at the best price What does China know about the fighting between the US and Iran… Source link

Odisha HC’s curious stand against an aspect of personal liberty, that too by quoting Russell   Housing societies are meant to manage common amenities, not police people’s fundamental rights. But they do try. Some prevent flat owners from renting to unmarried couples, others impose dietary restrictions, or limit the size of residents’ pets. An Odisha one,…

In the early 1910s, much of the Western world believed it was entering an era of lasting peace. Later, Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan described this widespread conviction as the belief that “global interconnectedness and technological progress would guarantee a peaceful world”. We all know what happened: World War I broke out in 1914. Time and…

By:- Shambo Samrat Samajdar and Shashank Joshi A man walked through the streets carrying a lamp, asking, ‘Have you seen light?’ Some sent him to temples and scholars. Years passed. One evening, tired, he sat down. The lamp was in his hand. He had carried the light all along. The Upanishads tell us: what we…

Notwithstanding periodic episodes of cartographic obfuscation by the Chinese regarding the status of Arunachal Pradesh, the state is progressing on the road to development. Enabling this, as part of a whole-of-govt approach, are Indian Army and IAF, whose presence in strength, in and around the state, is an assurance that no military adventurism by adversarial…

A housing society in Odisha made a strange rule: if a family has more than two children, they can lose their membership. A family challenged this in court, hoping the judges would say the rule was unfair because people should be free to decide how many children they have. Instead, the court supported the housing…

Hormuz is witnessing both, but another long war and blockade are unlikely. India should buy oil on best terms  What does China know about US-Iran war that others don’t? While oil prices rose and stocks… Source link

…The death of one diminishes us all ‘I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree.’ – Joyce Kilmer Mumbai has turned more prosaic –because of the very monsoon which once stirred such sublime poetry. Meghdoot to mega-death. This time’s apocalypse claimed 830 city trees in its first fortnight compared to…

As the 2026 World Cup thunders toward its final on July 19, more than a billion of us will watch a tournament we have never played in. India has qualified for the men’s World Cup exactly zero times. That absence is real. But the story we tell about it — the reason we repeat to…

A tournament full of excellent goalkeeping has still found room for a Swiss man to make himself unavoidable. Gregor Kobel has kept two clean sheets in five appearances and then became Switzerland’s shootout hero against Colombia, saving Cucho Hernández’s penalty and turning one good leap to his left into national folklore. Switzerland had not reached…