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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicMay Day

Topic: May Day

‘Mayday’: History of the globally recognised distress signal, Air India 171’s final communication

Udit Bubna -
On Thursday, Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (AI171) bound for Gatwick, London, from Ahmedabad, crashed into BJ Medical College soon after takeoff.

Turkish police detain 210 protestors, shell tear gas during May Day rally in Istanbul

Bulent Usta -
Legal experts say this stance violates the right of Turks to organise public meetings and demonstrations, a right upheld by the Constitutional Court in a ruling last October.

UK’s Covid-19 boat of death and need for masks against racism in US

Taran Deol -
The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

May Day irony during Covid-19 and ‘exit strategy expert’ Rahul Gandhi

Shubhangi Misra -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Asymptomatic Covid-19 cases climb to over 980 in China

K J M Varma -
The Chinese government has stepped up its vigil to contain the spread of the infection during the five-day May Day holidays.

UK Defence Secretary sacked over Huawei leak

Srijan Shukla -
Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for bail breach and clash between protesters and police in Paris May Day rallies.

This is why 1 May came to be celebrated as May Day the world over

Aastha Singh -
More than 65 countries have official holiday on May Day and a few others unofficially observe this day. In India, 1 May coincides with Maharashtra Day.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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