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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicApple traders

Topic: apple traders

Can India retain its skilled workers amid H-1B fee hike & the ‘boldness’ of Naveen Jindal

The New York Times reports on the struggles of apple farmers in Jammu & Kashmir as this year’s unrelenting monsoon destroyed their crops. 

Apples rot as J&K mandi is hit by people’s curfew during day, security clampdown at night

While farmers say they have suffered huge losses, the authorities in Jammu & Kashmir claim impact on apple sales only a "minor hiccup".

Kashmir clampdown is driving up apple prices, you could soon be paying Rs 200-250/kg

Apples from Kashmir start coming to Delhi in the last week of August, but the communication & transport restrictions have skewed the supply this year.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.