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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicCD Deshmukh

Topic: CD Deshmukh

Who is CD Deshmukh & what’s the message behind renaming Mumbai’s Churchgate station after him

CM Shinde’s move being seen as attempt to appropriate legacy of 1st Indian RBI governor, once described by Bal Thackeray as 'the only Maharashtra leader in Delhi with self-respect'.

Remembering CD Deshmukh, RBI’s first Indian governor

On his 123rd birth anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the life of the civil servant who was also Union finance minister and Planning Commission member.

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.