NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||25th MARCH2026
NEWS &
VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||25th MARCH2026
WEDNESDAY| VOL—V/2026/MARCH
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“*यत भावो-तत भवति।*”
You
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25th
March - International Day of the Unborn Child. It
is observed on 25th March. It is an annual commemoration of unborn fetuses
and is observed as a day of opposition to abortion. |
INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).
One LNG Tanker From USA, And Crude Tanker Aqua
Titan From RUSSIA ( Originally Destined
For China) Reached Mangalore Port.
Prime Minister Modi yesterday held a telephonic
conversation with US Donald Trump. In a social media post, PM Modi said, he
received a call from President Trump and they had a useful exchange of views on
the situation in West Asia.
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor has announced
the upcoming visit of top defense official ‘Elbridge Colby’ to India.
“Gulf crisis: India must urgently reform its
energy sector”, First Post, March 20, 2026. I agree. We started—but
progress is slow.
The
Lok Sabha on March 24, 2026 passed by voice vote: the Transgender Persons
(Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which proposes to remove
transgender people’s right to self-determination of gender, and introduces a
clause for examination by a medical board to determine their gender.
The
Government introduced the Corporate Laws
(Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, following which the House adopted a
motion to send the proposed legislation to a Joint Parliamentary Committee
(JPC) for detailed examination.
The scrutiny of nomination papers for Assam,
Keralam and Puducherry assembly elections was held yesterday. The filing of
nomination papers ended on Monday. The last day for withdrawal of candidature
is Thursday.
Chhattisgarh
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai will directly transfer approximately ₹500 crore
into the bank accounts of nearly 5 lakh landless agricultural Labourer families
under the Deendayal Upadhyay Landless Agricultural Labourer Welfare Scheme
today.
The
Gujarat Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill with a majority voice
vote after a marathon debate lasting over seven hours yesterday. The bill
proposes a common legal framework to govern marriage, divorce, succession, and
live-in relationships, irrespective of religion.
Mizoram recorded 1,845 live births and 720
deaths in January this year, according to data released by the Economics and
Statistics department.
Telangana
Government employees will get up to 20% discount on purchase of two- and
four-wheeler electric vehicles (EVs) from leading EV manufacturers including
Mahindra Electric, Ola Electric, Graviton Motors, and Ather Energy.
In
West Bengal, to ensure free, fair, and peaceful upcoming Assembly Elections,
approximately 1,920 companies of comprising CAPF, armed forces of other states
and Indian Reserve Battalions will be deployed in phases. Out of this total,
300 companies of CAPF are scheduled to arrive by March 31.
Air
India and Air India Express will jointly operate 24 scheduled and non-scheduled
flights to and from West Asia.
The
Indian Embassy in Doha informed that Qatar Airways operated 25 flights to India
between the 20th and 22nd of this month, carrying around 7,750 Indian
nationals.
IRAN WAR: 24/03/2026
Iranian
officials dismiss claims of US talks. Senior Iranian officials denied that Iran
held talks with the US, just hours after President Donald Trump claimed “very
good and productive conversations” taken place towards ending the war, Al
Jazeera informed. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and parliamentary leaders
calling the statements “fake news” and a “big lie”. By the time Trump’s five-day pause on his
threat to hit Iranian energy sites ends on this Friday, more than two thousand
additional U.S. Marines are expected to arrive in the Middle East, the Wall
Street Journal reported. Is Mr. Trump looking for an “exit ramp”? Or it is a
calculated diplomatic ruse??
Huge
explosions were reported overnight on Tuesday in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and
Karaj. Iranian media reported on Tuesday that Israeli-US strikes hit two gas
facilities and a pipeline, hours after Trump postponed planned attacks on Power
Infrastructure. CORRECT. TRUMP SAID USA WILL NOT
HIT POWER STATIONS (ONLY). Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr has been appointed
as the new secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council (SNSC), the
country’s highest security decision-making body.
Pakistan,
Turkey, and Egypt are trying to broker the peace in Middle-East.
White
House said there is no confirmation yet regarding reports that US Vice
President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and former presidential adviser
Jared Kushner may meet Iranian officials in Islamabad!
ISRAEL:
“Israel should move its border with Lebanon up to
the Litani River”, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday, amid
ongoing military operations against the Hezbollah terror group.
Meanwhile—ISRAEL remained active on IRAN, LEBANON, and GAZA front! Israeli
Prime Minister said he had spoken with Trump and that the US president believed
the military gains in Iran could be converted into a negotiated agreement that
protects Israel’s interests.
Strait
of Hormuz remains closed: Despite international pressure Iranian Foreign
Minister Abbas Araghchi iterated that Iran’s stance on the Strait of Hormuz had
not changed. Japan and South Korea are feeling the pressure. Chief of the UAE’s
state energy company ADNOC slammed Tehran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as
“economic terrorism against every nation”.
GULF:
Missile and drone interceptions reported in Kuwait. Saudi Arabia intercepted
approximately 20 drones targeting its Eastern Province, a critical region that
houses the majority of the kingdom’s energy and oil facilities. Additionally,
Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior has sounded warning alarms numerous times over
the past 24 hours. Saudi Arabia followed Qatar in expelling Iranian diplomatic
personnel over the weekend. Lebanon’s foreign minister followed suit today, as
fighting between Hezbollah and Israel continues to rage in the country.
IRAQ:
Nicolas Haque, reporting from Baghdad, opined Iraq as a secondary battleground
where the US and Iran-backed groups are “battling it out”. Haque noted that the
US was engaging in “deliberate but calibrated targets” against leaders of the
Iran-aligned groups.
UK
is sending short-range air defense systems to counter Iranian missile attacks,
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
‘Alive,
DEAD, on life support..': Iran’s missing supreme leader mystery deepens - 5
claims about Mojtaba Khamenei so far.
A
report by Al-Jarida claims Mojtaba Khamenei was transferred to Russia on March
12, aboard a Russian military aircraft for advanced medical care after being
severely injured in the initial strike. Russian authorities have neither confirmed nor
denied this claim, and no independent verification has emerged.
WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)
Australia and the EU signed a trade agreement
yesterday that they first started negotiating in 2018. It will ensure almost
TARIFF free business except Steel.
International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih
Birolt warned that global leaders did not appear to comprehend the severity of
the crisis and said the IEA would be open to another release of oil reserves to
address the supply gap.
Italian voters rejected a constitutional change
to the country’s judiciary, with around 54 percent voting against it. Prime
Minister Giorgia Meloni had backed the judicial overhaul, while opponents
argued it would cede too much power to the executive branch.
The EU will begin provisionally applying its
free trade agreement with South American customs union Mercosur on May 1,
despite an ongoing legal challenge to the deal, the bloc’s trade commissioner
said yesterday. The EU-Mercosur deal creates a free trade zone of more than 700
million people.
At the 61st session of the United Nations Human
Rights Council (UNHRC), Japanese human rights activist Shun Fujiki strongly criticized
Pakistan over alleged Human
Rights Violations in Balochistan.
Chad is relocating refugees from its border with
Sudan as it prepares for a military deployment in the region, an unnamed
official from Chad’s refugee agency told Reuters yesterday. Chad’s president
last week ordered the military to be ready to retaliate after a drone attack
from Sudan killed seventeen people in Chad. Sudan’s military and the
paramilitary Rapid Support Forces blamed each other for the incident.
ENVIRONMENT:
China is deep into building the Pinglu Canal, an
83-mile shipping route meant to connect inland rivers in the southwest to
international sea lanes. The job is simple to say and hard to build. Purpose:
let big cargo vessels move from the interior to the coast without taking a long
detour.
Saudi Arabia is building a 1.7-mile-long
artificial lake in the middle of the desert, featuring three giant dams and a
$4.7 billion investment, which will yield 90,000 cubic meters of water per week
without significantly impacting the environment.
ENGINEERING, MEDICINE,SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY:
The
Government has approved the Kosamba Rail Over-Rail (RoR) Flyover Project in
Gujarat and the Bhagalpur Bypass Project in Bihar to strengthen rail
connectivity and improve operational efficiency. The Ministry of Railways
stated that the total sanctioned cost of the two projects is around six hundred
forty-seven crore rupees.
CLIMATE:
LAW, CRIME &
PUNISHMENT:
London
counter-terror police are investigating an arson attack yesterday on ambulances
owned by a Jewish charity as an antisemitic hate crime, police said.
Two
Russians arrested last August are being tried in Angola on espionage and
foreign influence peddling charges after authorities accused them of trying to
interfere in Angola’s 2027 presidential election, the BBC reported today.
The
Apex Court has ruled that only individuals belonging to Hindu, Sikh, or
Buddhist faiths are eligible to claim Scheduled Caste status. The Court
clarified that conversion to any other religion, such as Christianity, results
in the immediate and complete loss of Scheduled Caste status.
A
Delhi court today sentenced Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi to life
imprisonment following her conviction in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention)
Act (UAPA) case.
GAMES & SPORTS: -
Arunachal’s
Para-Athlete Kipa Mero clinched the Gold Medal in Women’s Javelin Throw F12
Category at the 24th National Para Athletics Championships 2026 in Bhubaneswar,
Odisha.
DAS KAPITAL:
Indian
Share Market: -
*BSE
SENSEX* 74,068.45 +1,372.06 (1.89%)🌲
*NIFTY*
22,912.40 +399.75 (1.78%)🌲
BULLIONS:
*GOLD* : ₹ 14,200/ 01gm (24 krt)
*SILVER* : ₹ 2,35,000/KG
Currency
Exchange Rates:
*Euro*
: ₹107/-*USD* ₹ 92/- *China¥* : ₹ 13/-
WHAT IS NEXT:
Today,
Denmark holds parliamentary elections.
Today,
France begins hosting a security forum in Paris.
Tomorrow,
the UN Security Council discusses the Central African Republic.
THE END.
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