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New Arsenal

Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.

Tariff Reboot

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.

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.

Wage fault lines

The recent eruption of worker unrest across industrial clusters like Noida is less a law-and-order problem than a stress test of India’s economic model.