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Opinion: Opinion | Iran-Israel Escalation, And The Question Of 'Oil'

1 week ago | ndtv.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh

At 2:00 a.m. on June 13, Israeli fighter jets lit up the skies over Isfahan, striking Iranian weapons facilities in a precision raid. By dawn, Tehran had launched its own salvo missiles, which rained down on air bases in southern Israel. Within hours, global markets convulsed. Brent crude soared past $74.23 a barrel, and the S&P 500 slid more than 1%. Gold spiked to a record past $3,400 an ounce.
Opinion: Opinion | Iran-Israel Escalation, And The Question Of 'Oil'

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh

At the G7, it's Trump against the rest, in a chaotic worldAs the leaders of the seven largest Western economies, plus the European Union, meet in Canada from Sunday, the divisions within what can hardly …
Criminalising Thought: How Indian Universities Are Abandoning Academic Freedom

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan

Wilhelm von Humboldt, a great liberal reformer and a humanist, once defined the university as “nothing other than the spiritual life of those human beings who are moved by external leisure or internal pressures toward learning and research”. Even if a university did not exist, Humboldt felt that a human being would otherwise “privately reflect and collect, another might join with men of his own age, a third might find a circle of disciples.
How Climate Change and Urban Chaos Are Igniting India’s Fire Safety Crisis

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan

The death of 17 members of a family in a massive fire shocked Hyderabad on May 18. The blaze, caused by a short circuit, broke out in the Gulzar House building, less than 100 metres from the iconic Charminar. According to reports, the family had little chance of escape. The building had a single entry point, and the windows were shut—likely due to air conditioner use. With no outlet for the smoke, the structure quickly turned into a gas chamber.
BJP’s Caste Census U-Turn: Politics or Progress?

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on April 30, 2025, that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs had approved the inclusion of caste enumeration in the next population census. The announcement marks a reversal of the current administration’s position since the BJP has never shown any interest in conducting a caste census. The opposition, on the other hand, especially Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, has been demanding a caste census for some time now.
Pahalgam Has Proved J&K's GDP Can't Be Taken as the Sole Indicator of 'Normalcy'

2 months ago | thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh

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Work Hard, Live Poor: The Broken Economics of India’s Hustle Culture

2 months ago | thequint.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh

An Indian worker already clocks an average of 46.7 hours per week—a number much higher than the US, the UK, and even China. And yet, India’s labour productivity stands at a meagre $8 per hour, which is dwarfed when compared to the UK’s $56.9 or Germany’s towering $73.05. What makes this disparity even starker is that while India’s corporate profits soared by an astonishing 22.3 percent in financial year 2023-24, employment has barely risen by 1.5 percent, according to the Economic Survey 2024-25.
Trump’s Trade War Will Disproportionately Hit Developing Nations

2 months ago | m.thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan

Despite Trump's promises, economic nationalism has neither made America great nor uplifted struggling communities. Instead, it has widened inequalities, destabilised global trade and pushed the world toward a more divided economic order – one where the marginalised suffer the most.
Trump Tariffs: How 25% Tax on Canada and Mexico Threatens US Manufacturing

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan

TradeThe clock is ticking down on US President Donald Trump’s planned imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on trade partners from April 2. There is no credible indictment yet of Trump’s masterclass on how to misuse a potentially effective trade policy tool. In the grand theatre of economic policy, tariffs have been both the hero and villain, helping build empires in one era and plunging nations into crisis in the next.
Volatility a Concern Amid Rupee's Tightrope Rupee Management Act

Mar 3, 2025 | thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh

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