Highly polluted water from Najafgarh & Mungeshpur drain being used to cultivate vegetables across SW Delhi. IIT studies have detected heavy metals in drain– chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni) and lead (Pb) up to 50 times the permissible limits

Draw a Red Line on U.S. unilateral sanctions. For India to launch a new Green Revolution in energy independence, it must first rebuff U.S. sanctions. My op-ed The Hindu today. thehindu.com/opinion/lead/i…

US-Israel's war on Iran could push 2.5 million Indians into poverty as energy and food prices double. With severe shortages of cooking gas and rising costs of living, factory workers are rioting, stretching gov't finances to breaking point. Al Jazeera's Neha Poonia reports.

Very significant decision by a neighbour, if confirmed as policy.

Iranian state media reporting a phone call between Iran’s Foreign Minister Syed Abbas Araghchi and Pakistan’s Political and Military Leadership Waiting on Pakistani readouts. No confirmation of talks in the Iranian handout.

Excl: UAE-Iran differences and India’s plans to dilute language on Israel-Palestine derail joint statement at BRICS meet.While UAE-Iran acrimony was expexted, delegates were surprised by Delhi moves, opposed by almost all others. Reporting The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/…

What a coincidence! India lost 18 times more forest than it gained between 2015–2019, study finds thehindu.com/news/national/…

Newer colors entering heatmaps 😰

91.41 approximate voter turnout recorded in the second and final phase of West Bengal elections 2026. #Election2026 #WestBengalElections2026 #ECI Election Commission of India

“One thing is absolutely clear in all this: Vijay was firm about ‘no alliance with BJP at any cost.’ Even when BJP exerted pressure at different stages, he held his ground. So a BJP–TVK equation is completely off the table. TVK’s options lie elsewhere, mainly among Congress and

Where the Congress party’s Praveen Chakravarty says TN was a missed opportunity for the Congress thanks to a generational divide over an alliance with Vijay. Gives the example of P. Chidambaram who wanted to continue with the DMK 👇

In 50 seats in Bengal, the SIR deletions exceeded the victory margin. 25 of those were won by the BJP. A near similar number by Trinamool. Sharp analysis by Anubhuti Vishnoi who has covered the SIR exercise closely from the beginning. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections…

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