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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicNational emblem

Topic: national emblem

Faith, politics & national emblem—inside the Hazratbal shrine controversy

It all began as local outrage over the Waqf Board’s installation of the Ashoka emblem on an inauguration stone at Hazratbal, one of the most revered religious sites in Kashmir.

As govt, opposition clash over new national emblem cast, a look at its history & significance

Opposition leaders have called statue atop new Parliament building a distortion of the emblem, which was based on Emperor Ashoka's Lion Capital at Sarnath.

Maneka Gandhi accuses animal panel members of using national emblem to influence & extort

Gandhi accuses animal welfare board members of using the national emblem to influence state governments and extort personal favours.

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.