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Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Topic: BHIM

Dalit rights activist & Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad fired at in Uttar Pradesh

A bullet grazed past Aazad, the police said. A probe has been launched.

No data breach in BHIM, says national payments body after web sleuths claim lakhs ‘exposed’

vpnMentor, a site that reviews virtual private network services, said Sunday that data of ‘millions of BHIM users’, including Aadhaar details, had been left exposed to the public.

Facebook & Google are in a frenzy chasing India’s $1 trillion online payment market

While India's digital payments market will touch $1 trillion only by 2023, China’s current mobile payments market stands at $5 trillion.

The chicken-and-egg problem of NPCI shows what’s needed to improve its performance

NPCI is both the operator and infrastructure provider of IMPS and UPI, and does not have the structure to generate the right incentives.

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.