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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicNari Shakti Puraskar

Topic: Nari Shakti Puraskar

Kashmiri entrepreneur who told Modi internet ban ruined her business now hopes for better

Arifa Jan was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar last week at an event in Delhi where she met PM Modi. Armed with an award, she now hopes for a new future.

Delhi’s top judge breaks an unwritten rule, accepts award from Modi govt

Delhi HC acting CJ Gita Mittal is a recipient of this year’s Nari Shakti Puraskar; she is perhaps the first sitting judge to accept a government award.

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.