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RAF Personnel Beaten at Connaught Place: When Protest Becomes Assault
The CJP violence in New Delhi raises hard questions about organiser accountability and the legal gap that makes paramilitary units softer targets.
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Who Controls the Mine Controls the Future: India's Stake in the UN Minerals Debate
The UN Security Council met on July 22 to debate whether critical minerals — lithium, cobalt, copper — will fuel peace or conflict as global demand is set to triple by 2030. The governance frameworks emerging from New York will shape supply chains, traceability requirements, and value-addition rules for decades. India, heavily import-dependent and navigating a minerals diplomacy of its own, has a structural interest in ensuring these rules serve the Global South's developmental aspirations, not merely the supply-chain security of wealthier industrial economies.
Economy & BusinessIndian Lens
India's Economy Holds Its Ground as Global Order Fractures
The Reserve Bank of India's July 2026 Bulletin finds the domestic economy navigating external turbulence well, with healthy demand, resilient industrial and services output, improving liquidity, and steady foreign investment inflows. Headline retail inflation ticked up in June, driven partly by precious metals, but core inflation — stripped of that distortion — remained contained. The bulletin's tone is one of watchful stability, not alarm.
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Bluetooth in Turbans, Answers from Bhiwani: What the BFUHS Scam Reveals About India's Examination State
A tech-driven cheating racket disrupted the BFUHS Pharmacy Officer Recruitment Examination in Punjab on July 19, using pen cameras, miniaturised Bluetooth devices concealed in turbans and undergarments, and a remote answer-relay operation run from a house in Faridkot. Punjab Police have made arrests, and the political fallout is widening. But the deeper story is institutional: India's high-stakes examination system has become structurally vulnerable to commercially available consumer electronics, and the incident-by-incident law enforcement response is no longer adequate.
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Jaffna Kings Tighten the Screws as Colombo Kaps Chase Unravels
Jaffna Kings posted 179/6 and are firmly in control as Colombo Kaps sit at 100/5, needing 80 runs from their final five wickets in a Lanka Premier League fixture that carries significant playoff weight. The match has become a masterclass in death-bowling pressure and the fragility of middle-order batting under T20 conditions. For IPL-aligned scouts and South Asian cricket watchers, the individual performances emerging from this pressure cooker matter well beyond the scoreline.
Somnath Temple: Where India's Soul Has Never Stopped Praying
Somnath Temple in Gujarat is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva and among the oldest pilgrimage sites in the Indian subcontinent. Razed and reconstructed across centuries of invasion and restoration, the temple is not merely a religious monument but a living emblem of India's civilisational resilience. Today it rises in Saurashtra limestone above the Arabian Sea, drawing pilgrims and travellers into a story that stretches back to the very roots of Indic consciousness.
Economy & BusinessIndian Lens
RBI Holds the Line: What a Single Day of Money Markets Reveals
The Reserve Bank of India's daily money market bulletin for July 21, 2026, shows a near-neutral net liquidity position of negative ₹9,289 crore, with triparty repo dominating overnight activity at ₹4,46,470 crore. The data confirms the RBI's calibrated stance: absorbing surplus through the Standing Deposit Facility while keeping overnight rates anchored close to the policy repo rate. The thin term money market, however, remains a structural vulnerability worth watching.
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Dharmendra Pradhan Pledges Parliamentary Debate on NEET as Structural Fault Lines Deepen
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has committed fully to parliamentary discussion on the NEET-UG 2024 scandal, while Prime Minister Modi has called the paper leaks a 'grave sin' demanding strong accountability. The controversy, which touched multiple states and implicated roughly 2.4 million students, now centres not merely on punishment of wrongdoers but on whether India's centralised examination architecture is structurally sound. The CBI probe and the NTA's leadership change signal institutional response — but the harder design questions remain unanswered.
WorldIndian Lens
Global Hunger Retreats Again, but the Measurement War Has Only Begun
Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, according to a new UN report, but progress remains too slow to meet the 2030 SDG deadline. The aggregate figures conceal sharp regional divergence and a quieter argument about whose data counts. India's position — home to the world's largest undernourished population in absolute terms, yet running food distribution at a scale few governments anywhere have attempted — sits at the precise fault line between these two realities.
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Aditi Ramachandran
Aditi Ramachandran is the Editor-in-Chief of IndiaWorldEye. She leads the masthead's daily coverage of global affairs from an Indian vantage — reading the world's moving parts and what they mean for Bharat's rise. Her editorial line is unapologetically Indian: clear-eyed about the country's interests, confident about its civilisational trajectory, and insistent that India's voice belong at the centre of every global conversation it shapes.
