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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicBank notes

Topic: Bank notes

Banknotes with star mark are legal tenders, clarifies RBI

Sampurna Panigrahi -
The central bank said the mark was placed before the bank note’s serial number to identify it as a reprinted or replaced note.

Don’t be scared of cash, risk of catching Covid from notes is low, Bank of England study finds

Lucy Meakin -
Bank of England considered worst-case scenario of an infected person coughing or sneezing onto a note, and found virus level dropping quickly after an hour.

The world’s biggest banknote printer is running short of money

Chris Bryant -
After British company De La Rue's shares plunge to one fifth their value, concerns arise about the future of the banks it owes money to.

Liberals hated the colours of Modi’s new notes but never understood their politics

Shivam Vij -
The currency note was a prop, the ATM queues an exercise in behavioural psychology.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

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

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

Defence

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

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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