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Photo: PTI : Voters check their names in the voter list during the Special Revision of Photo Electoral Rolls-2026 ahead of Assam Legislative Assembly elections, in Guwahati.

Assembly Elections 2026: High-Stakes Clash That Will Shape Assam’s Future

BY Ashlin Mathew

Sandipan Chatterjee : A combative grassroots campaigner who built her career on street protests and populist politics, Banerjee is now in her third consecutive term and gearing up for the state assembly elections expected in late April 2026.

Assembly Elections 2026: How Mamata Banerjee Became Bengal’s Most Powerful Political Force

BY Saher Hiba Khan

IMAGO / ANI News : Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma during the Jana Ashirwad Yatra ahead of upcoming assembly elections at Tihu, in Nalbari Nalbari Assam

Assembly Elections 2026: How Himanta Biswa Sarma Became a Master of Polarisation

Photo: X : Keralam CM Pinarayi Vijayan with leader of Opposition V D Satheesan

Keralam Assembly Polls 2026: Congress In Do-Or-Die Fight, Left Seeks To Retain Relevance

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Photo: @ECISVEEP/X via PTI : CEC Kumar said Elections In Four States And One UT Between April 9-29, Results On May 4.

Assembly Election Dates 2026: EC Announces Polling in Four States And One UT Between April 9-29, Results On May 4

BY Outlook News Desk

Photo: Vikram Sharma : A few of the relics that were taken out of the country by Peppe and repatriated in 2025.
In 1898, William Claxton Peppé discovered the Piprahwa gem relics, which led to 349 gem relics being placed under his custody. A significant portion of these relics became part of the Imperial Museum in Calcutta, now known as the Indian Museum in Kolkata. The museum classified these relics as ‘AA’ antiquities, which prohibited their sale and restricted their movement. However, they are now displayed in this magnificent exhibition for the first time and reunited with the repatriated gem relics which were once taken away from India by the Peppé family. These gems, made from semiprecious stones, pearls, and beads, are shaped into emblems such as the tri-ratna, bird, leaf, and lotus motifs. Alongside these gems are numerous pieces of gold and silver leaf, some of which are impressed with crosses, lions, and early Buddhist symbols. Among the unique pieces is a group of tiny ornaments referred to as “star-shaped flowers” by Harry Falk. These jewels were carved from small, flat stone cones, hollowed at the centre and shaped into six or more petals by meticulously sawing the stone between them. This process required great skill and precision. Each ornament has a central perforation, indicating that they were initially strung, possibly as part of a necklace, garland, or decorative textile. A faint circular mark where the petals meet suggests that they were shaped using a thread saw, a delicate ancient tool.

From Ancient Piprahwa To Contemporary Delhi: ‘The Light And The Lotus’ Exposition

BY Vineetha Mokkil

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Source: IMAGO / Dreamstime : photo journalist

The Myth Of A War Correspondent and The Corporatisation Of War

BY Asim Rafiqui

Source - US Mint website : A New Face For The Dime: Olive Branch Goes Missing In US Anniversary Coin

A New Face For The Dime: Olive Branch Goes Missing In US Anniversary Coin

BY Outlook News Desk

SURESH K PANDEY : Are we, the upper class citizens, expecting them to not hydrate? What is the solution we provide if we employ their services?

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Brahminical Supremacy, Class Privilege And Inhumanity: The Failure Of The Indian Upper Middle Class

BY Saumya Baijal

IMAGO / SOPA Images : Rally in Paris support Maryam Rajavi's Ten-Point Plan for a Democratic Iran Demonstrators carry Kurdish and Iranian flags during a rally organized by Franco-Iranian associations supporting the National Council of Resistance of Iran in central Paris.

Kurds And Iran’s Political Crisis: Why The World’s Largest Stateless Nation Is Back In Focus

BY Priyanka Tupe

IMAGO / ANI News : Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, during a state cabinet meeting, in Shimla.

Hit Hard By RDG, Fiscal Crunch, Sukhu Lays Down Terms For Centre & States On Multi-Purpose Projects In Himachal

BY Ashwani Sharma

Source: Speaking Tiger books : Carrying 'Home' Through The Flames: A Memoir Of Memory And Survival From Manipur

Carrying 'Home' Through The Flames: A Memoir Of Memory And Survival From Manipur

BY Mrinalini Dhyani

| Photo: IMAGO/Beata Zawrzel : Demonstration Against Israeli-American Aggression On Iran People hold flags and banners while attending Hands off Iran rally at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland

Freedom Cannot Be Delivered by Missiles

BY Pattie Ehsaei

Dinesh Parab/Outlook : Women football players from Parcham football academy are practicing on Fatima Bi Savitri Bai sports ground the only women's sports ground, in Mumbra.

Study Finds More Women In India Playing Sport As Attitudes Towards Sportswomen Shift Gradually

BY Saher Hiba Khan

S.Gopakumar : When Love Needs a Press Conference: The Real Kerala Story Featuring Monalisa Bhosle

When Love Needs a Press Conference: The Real Kerala Story Featuring Monalisa Bhosle

BY Snehal Srivastava

| Photo: PTI : People waiting outside the distribution points said that vehicles carrying gas cylinders had not been arriving in the area regularly. This has left many families worried about their cooking needs.

Nationwide LPG Cylinder Shortage Sparks Long Queues, Black Marketing: Govt. Says Not To Panic

BY Jinit Parmar

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Reiterating his administration’s stance on gender policy in sports, Trump has now signed an executive order declaring that “there are only two genders,” male and female.

'Men Out of Women’s Sports': Trump Sets 2028 Olympic Rule

SURESH K PANDEY : Police and CRPF personnel manning the barricades surrounding the houses of Tarun Kumar and the accused.

Barricades, Bulldozers In Uttam Nagar: Residents Say Holi Clash And Killing Wasn’t A Communal Dispute

Photo: Representative Image : Always On: The Quiet Burnout of the Work-From-Home Era

The Quiet Burnout of the Work-From-Home Era

| IMAGO / ANI News : Manipur Hills on Edge After Two Kuki Men Found Dead Near Thawai Village

Manipur Hills on Edge After Two Kuki Men Found Dead Near Thawai Village

BY Mrinalini Dhyani

Credit: AP Photo/ Altaf Qadri | Representative Image : Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026

War On Iran: Closing The Strait of Hormuz Has Far-Reaching Consequences

BY Prasanta Kumar Pradhan

IMAGO / United Archives : Scenes on the eve of the march on foot to the sea coast of Dandi, called on the Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi. This peaceful resistance was part of Gandhi's Non-violent opposition to British rule in India

The March That Taught A Nation to Resist: Lessons from Gandhi’s Dandi March In Times of Turbulence

BY Priyanka Tupe

Photo: Imago : A Lebanese woman makes her way trough the debris covered street of a village that was almost completely destroyed by Israeli bombing.

Hezbollah Vs Tzahal: The Silent Battlefield Of Southern Lebanon

BY Vijay Prashad

Illustration: Anupam Sai Bollaboina

Turbulence In Tehran: Decoding The Lineages Of The Protests Against Clerics

| Credits: IMAGO / Xinhua : TEHRAN, March 3, 2026 -- A mass funeral ceremony for students and staff members killed in a United States-Israeli attack on a school is held in Minab, Iran s southern province of Hormozgan, March 3, 2026. The school was bombed in Israeli and U.S. strikes, leaving at least 165 people killed and 95 others wounded on Saturday.

Mourning, Martyrdom, And Moral Resistance In Iran Today

BY Hamidullah Marazi

IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire : United States: President DONALD TRUMP takes questions from the media on Iran, Europe and voter identification as he boards Marine One for a flight to Kentucky on March 11, 2026

Language Of War, Silence Of Peace 

BY Anwiti Singh

IMAGO / Anadolu Agency : Pro-Palestine activists rally outside the New York Times building to protest the newspaper’s coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza and Iran in New York City, United States, on March 09, 2026.

Saying Everything, Except Who Did It: Western Media, The Iran War, And The Language Of Euphemism

BY Mohammad Ali

Source: IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire : March 5, 2026: Iranians living in Istanbul gathered in front of the Iranian Consulate to commemorate the children killed in an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls Primary School in the city of Minab, in Iran's Hormozgan province. In the attack on 28 February 2026, more than 150 people, most of them students, were killed; protesters left carnations at the consulate gate in memory of the children.

Not In Our Name: Iranian Women Reject Liberation By Bombs

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Winter Will One Day Be Past: Review Of 'Umar Khalid And His World'

BY Tanika Sarkar

|Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari : Sudarshan Shetty’s 2005 installation in Delhi's exhibition.

Party Is Elsewhere: When Art, Absence and Space Collide

BY Mrinalini Dhyani

| Photo: Imago/Granger Historical Picture Archive : Embassy Occupied: Iranian students hang a bust of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi at the Iranian embassy in Paris in 1979

How Foreign Powers And Authoritarian Rule Shaped Modern Iran

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Dave Hunt/AP : Iranian players pose for a team photo ahead of the Women's Asian Cup soccer match between Iran and the Philippines in Robina, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026

Long Way Home: Iran Calls Out US' Hypocrisy as Australia Grants Asylum To Iranian Women's Football Team

BY Agnideb Bandyopadhyay

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