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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicJamaica

Topic: Jamaica

Jamaica prepared for hurricane Melissa. It wasn’t enough

The hurricane underscored the financial and practical challenges of adapting to more frequent and destructive climate-driven Caribbean storms.

‘Tactical thaw’ likely in India-China ties & how spiritual event turned into deadly Hathras stampede

Global media also explores how India is fostering a wedding industry that has led to Indians spending nearly twice as much on weddings as education, on an average.

1 killed & thousands displaced as category 4 Hurricane Beryl hits Jamaica

A woman died in Jamaica’s Hanover parish after a tree fell on her home. Warning for hurricane is in effect for Jamaica, Cayman Islands & eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

How Jamaican Supreme Court has killed India’s hope of selling Aadhaar to the world, for now

Jamaican Supreme Court sided with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s minority opinion in Aadhaar verdict while striking down its government's biometric project.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

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.