India gets US waiver to keep Russian oil flowing. Middle East oilfields hit; Hormuz blockade threatens 20% global supply The news crackled through the corridors of power in New Delhi like a sudden burst of electricity, but its real impact was felt in the sprawling, sun-baked refineries of Jamnagar and the cramped, cluttered offices of […]
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Middle East war kills nearly 200 children, UNICEF warns. US-Israel pound Iran on day seven; tensions deepen. The seventh day. A Friday. In another life, the call to prayer would be drifting from minarets across Tehran, a gentle reminder of peace and submission. Today, the air was split by the shriek of incoming fire and
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Trump insists he must help choose Iran’s next leader. Trump rejects Khamenei’s son, demands role in Iran’s leadership choice. The sharp crack of a jet breaking the sound barrier over Tehran. The sky, a familiar, heavy grey, lit up not with the soft glow of dusk, but with the violent orange of anti-aircraft fire. On
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Lara Dutta stranded in Dubai amid rising tensions. Lara visited Dubai for brand work when war began. The villa in Dubai’s safe neighborhood had always felt like a sanctuary—a haven of peace and luxury where Lara Dutta Bhupathi could escape the chaos of Mumbai’s film industry and watch her daughter Saira grow up in the
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Nitish Kumar may quit as Bihar CM. Nitish may move Rajya Sabha and Nishant tipped Deputy CM. The news traveled through Bihar like a slow, mournful wind on Thursday, March 5—not with the shock of sudden violence, but with the quiet ache of something ending. In the narrow lanes of Patna’s old city, in the
Oil climbs past $83 as tensions rattle markets. India relies heavily on Hormuz for oil imports. The phone in Rajesh Kumar’s small petrol pump on the outskirts of Delhi rang at 6:47 on Thursday morning. It was his supplier, and the news was delivered in the flat, weary tone of a man who had been
Iran vows revenge after US sinks warship nearby. The water off Sri Lanka’s coast turned cold long before the sun set on Wednesday. Not the temperature—that remained tropical, indifferent to human tragedy—but something deeper. The cold of absence. The cold of 100 souls swallowed by the Indian Ocean, their stories extinguished in a flash of
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Congress MP meets Iran leader’s envoy, offers condolences. Masood calls Khamenei’s death sad, conveys heartfelt condolences. The drawing-room in New Delhi’s diplomatic quarter was hushed, heavy with the particular stillness that follows loss. On Tuesday, March 3, Congress MP Imran Masood sat across from Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, and for a moment, the war raging
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Trump says Israel didn’t pressure him into war. The fluorescent lights of the White House briefing room hummed with their usual sterile energy, but the air itself felt different today. Charged. Confused. The president stood at the podium, and with a casual shrug, rewrote the narrative of a war. “If anything, I might have forced
Air India offers free refunds, rescheduling amid crisis. The smell of cardamom coffee still clung to the curtains in Leila’s small Tehran apartment, a ghost of the normal morning that had been so violently interrupted. That was six days ago. Now, on Thursday, March 5, the scent was replaced by the acrid dust of shattered
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