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A tweet by NDTV Senior Editor Aditya Raj Kaul referring to Iran as a “terrorist regime” during the Israel–Iran conflict has triggered criticism over journalistic neutrality. The post was later deleted after backlash, with critics saying such language violates established standards of reporting.

Nearly a century after Gandhi began the Salt March on this day in 1930, the man who once stood at the moral centre of India’s freedom struggle occupies a far more uncertain place in the nation’s imagination. Revered, criticised and frequently reinterpreted, Gandhi today is less a saintly icon than a figure whose ideas continue to provoke debate about the meaning of power, resistance and democracy in modern India.

Habib Jalib did not merely write poetry; he turned it into an act of defiance. In an age of dictatorships and fearful silence, his voice stood with workers, students and ordinary citizens, refusing to legitimise unjust power.

As the war around Iran intensifies, many expected Yemen’s Houthi movement to open a new front. The group has the missiles, the drones and the strategic position along the Red Sea to disrupt global trade. Yet despite strong rhetoric and expressions of solidarity with Tehran, the Houthis have so far stayed out of the battlefield.

Iran’s clerical establishment has selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking a rare and consequential leadership transition in the Islamic Republic.

Five piercing Urdu couplets that question the logic of war while defending dignity and justice. Together, they offer a brief yet powerful meditation on resistance, conscience, and the fragile hope for peace.

Under the glare of interceptor trails and burning debris, the retaliation has moved from rhetoric to ruin. Apartment blocks lie split open, emergency crews work through smoke and shattered concrete, and night skies once marked by city lights now glow with fire. What began as a targeted strike has unfolded into a visible, grinding exchange, measured not only in military signalling but in fractured neighbourhoods and lives disrupted.

The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not merely a leadership transition. It is a structural rupture unfolding amid active military confrontation, economic fragility and regional recalibration. What follows will test Iran’s institutional cohesion, reshape West Asia’s strategic balance, and challenge the credibility of the global order itself.

From prison under the Shah to the helm of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei cast himself as a steadfast defender of Iran’s sovereignty, a leader who believed that dignity was preserved through resistance and resolve.

Courts slowed prosecutions, growth numbers met market hesitation, tremors exposed urban fragility, and regional tensions simmered without resolution. Today was not about dramatic rupture — it was about visible strain. Institutions stepped in where politics and policy have been stretched.

The Gauhati High Court has issued notice to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over petitions alleging that his public remarks targeting Muslims amount to hate speech and violate constitutional guarantees of equality and non discrimination. The court has sought responses from the state and Union governments, with the matter scheduled for hearing in April 2026.

Courts examined political speech, a high-profile prosecution slowed, Kolkata felt tremors, and trade diplomacy advanced. Today’s developments reveal a system recalibrating through institutional pressure rather than spectacle.