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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicGurugram flooding

Topic: gurugram flooding

Our take on SCO summit, Rahul Gandhi’s Bihar yatra, and GST reforms—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Noida wins this round in the NCR floods. Gurugram loses

The Noida Vs Gurugram rivalry is playing out online, with Noida residents thumbing their noses while many in Gurugram concede that the grass is, indeed, greener on the other side.

Floods bring out the Great Gurugram Divide. Old city calls out ‘stepmotherly treatment’

Rain flooded all of Gurugram, but the old city fared worse with potholed roads, cramped lanes, crowded houses and failing drains. ‘The potholes have roads,’ said a frustrated resident.

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

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.