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Chambal issues one more call for peace

It was over five decades back in 1972 that hundreds of dacoits, or baagis as they are called locally, voluntarily surrendered in Chambal valley of central India as part of a wider and inspirational social initiative for significant, beneficial, and durable social change achieved by non-violence.

Fragile Momentum

China’s latest growth numbers offer reassurance at first glance, but they obscure a more uncomfortable reality: the world’s second-largest economy is increasingly reliant on external demand at precisely the moment when the global environment is turning hostile.

Donald Trump AI image performing miracle healing scene shared on Truth Social

Moral Faultline

When a Pope speaks of “tyrants” in a world saturated with conflict, he is not merely condemning violence; he is redrawing the moral map on which global power operates.

Anatomy of Shortages

These days looking at newspapers one cannot but notice a striking anomaly; while the Government and its various ministers insist that there is no shortage of gas, the same newspapers show pictures of long queues at gas shops, and feature stories of migrant labour returning home because domestic gas was not available, or of industrial units shutting down due to gas shortage.