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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicIAF pilot

Topic: IAF pilot

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.

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SC decision on menstrual leave is feminist. Rani of Jhansi didn’t use period as an excuse

Women officers in the forces routinely manage the physiological realities of menstruation. Making menstrual leave mandatory would be two steps backwards for them.

India-US trade deal to be signed after Trump administration decides new global ‘tariff architecture’

New Delhi is examining the legal implications of the latest set of American investigations into Indian exports under Section 301(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, it is learnt.

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.