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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: bailout

Darjeeling tea is in crisis. Government could learn from Champagne playbook

Most of Darjeeling’s 87 fabled tea gardens are on the verge of closure. The government must intervene and take radical steps.

Why the BSNL bailout is consistent with Modi govt’s unstated policy

What has really riled critics of the government is that this seems to be a case of sinking good money after bad.

Modi govt considers bailing out BSNL, MTNL: Wise to waste taxpayers’ money on sinking PSUs?

The Narendra Modi government is contemplating a Rs 74,000 crore bailout plan for state-owned telecommunication companies BSNL and MTNL.

Beg, borrow, repeat: Pakistan’s IMF addiction continues even as its finance minister leaves

Pakistan’s military-driven economic decision-making is based on ‘Jazba’ and 'Chanda'.

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.