Purple revolution a model for rural communities
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
There are moments in a nation’s journey when a quiet transformation in a remote corner becomes a symbol of national resurgence.
Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.
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.
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.
Global warming policies were expected to drive a rapid shift toward a renewables-based energy system dominated by wind and solar.
The Gulf War has once again reminded the world of how fragile global supply chains and energy security can be.
Within days of Shah assuming office, former prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday in connection with the deaths of students during last year’s Gen Z-led revolt, an episode that had come to symbolize the angst of Nepal’s youth against the old political establishment.
The rejection of a judicial reform proposal in Italy is more than a policy setback ~ it is an early signal that the political equilibrium built by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni may be entering a phase of strain.
When 31-year-old Harish Rana, in a long-standing vegetative state, was moved from home care to a palliative unit in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and subsequently died after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, India crossed a threshold it had approached cautiously for years.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723-90) was published on 9 March 1776. It met with instant success.
