NEWS &
VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||3rd APRIL 2026
GOOD FRIDAY| VOL—V/2026/APRIL
OPINIONATED, FOR FREE CIRCULATION.
*परिश्रमो मिताहारः भेषजे सुलभे मम |*
*नित्यं ते सेवमानस्य व्याधिर्भ्यो नास्ति ते भयम् ||*
Hard
work and light food. These are the readily available medicine for any disease.
If you do these daily, you shall not be afraid of any ailment.
मेहनत और हल्का खाना। यह किसी भी
बीमारी के लिए आसानी से उपलब्ध होने वाली दवा है। अगर आप इन्हें रोजाना करते हैं
तो आपको किसी भी बीमारी का डर नहीं रहेगा।
TODAY IS GOOD FRIDAY. It falls during this Holy Week, which begins on Palm
Sunday and extends up to Easter Sunday. This sacred day honors the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ at Calvary and His holy sacrifice for the redemption and
salvation of humanity. According to Christian belief, Jesus endured great
suffering and death to atone for the sins of the world, demonstrating
unconditional love, forgiveness, and obedience to God.
INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).
GOI began a yearlong process yesterday of
collecting data about the size of its population and its socioeconomic status.
It is India’s first census in more than fifteen years and will record caste
data for the first time in almost a century.
Joint Secretary, MoPNG, Sujata Sharma said crude
availability in the country is normal and refineries are operating at maximum
capacity. She noted that government has reduced excise duty, on petrol and
diesel to keep prices stable. She said that the Government has made arrangements
to ensure adequate crude supply for the next 60 days.
Delhi launches Lakhpati Bitiya Yojana to support
girls’ education with ₹1.2 lakh financial aid from birth to graduation,
promoting higher education, preventing early marriage, and ensuring long-term
financial security.
Lok Sabha
passes Jan Vishwas Amendment Bill 2026 to decriminalize minor offences, amend
784 provisions and improve ease of doing business and living in India.
PM inaugurated Kaynes Semicon Plant in Sanand,
Gujarat, strengthening India’s semiconductor ecosystem, boosting EV and tech
manufacturing, and advancing the India’s Semiconductor Mission.
The government
said that full custom duty exemption will be provided on critical
petrochemical products till 30th June this year amid the ongoing crisis in West
Asia.
The Ministry of Textiles has extended the Rebate
of State and Central Taxes and Levies (RoSCTL) Scheme for exports of apparel,
garments, and made-ups until 30th September 2026. The move aims to sustain
India’s competitiveness in global textile markets by ensuring exporters are not
burdened with embedded taxes and levies.
India
condemned the recent attacks on UN peacekeepers deployed in UNIFIL and
called for ensuring their safety and security.
IRAN WAR: 02/04/2026
Trump said the United States plans to attack
Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks in a speech last night
that made little mention of diplomacy. Core U.S. goals are “nearing
completion,” --Trump said, giving no assurances about the reopening of the
Strait of Hormuz and saying that other countries should “take the lead” on the
matter.
The president voiced plans to bomb Iran—a nation
of more than 90 million—“back to the stone ages.” Trump threatened to strike
Iran’s power plants and possibly its oil infrastructure if a deal to end the
war is not reached soon. He also said the United States was surveilling Iran’s
nuclear materials and would attack if Iran were to “make a move” toward them.
Iran’s military command responded by vowing to
carry out “more crushing, broader, and more destructive” attacks, according to
state media.
HORMUZ: The United Kingdom is hosting a virtual
meeting of some thirty-five countries today to discuss reopening the Strait of
Hormuz. For now, ships passing through the strait have done so via negotiations
with Tehran; the Philippines said today it had gained permission to transit.
Some ships have been required to make payments in Chinese yuan or cryptocurrency in order to get
through, Bloomberg reported.
President Zelenskyy has offered to provide
Ukraine’s expertise in dealing with freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to
countries considering how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Zelenskyy said Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha
had taken part in a virtual meeting devoted to reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
attended by about 40 countries.
“Ukraine has relevant expertise concerning sea
waterways, concerning the defense and reopening of maritime traffic,” he said.
“If [our] partners are ready to act, we will consider how we can strengthen
them, how we can apply our expertise, knowledge and technological potential.”
KHARG ISLAND: The small island in the Persian
Gulf serves as Iran’s primary oil terminal, handling roughly 90 percent of the
country’s crude oil exports. It is a soft target now. USA destroyed all defense
system of IRAN here. REFER IMAGE AT TOP.
The International Energy Agency, the
International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank said yesterday they will create
a group to jointly monitor and recommend responses to the economic shocks
related to the Iran war. They noted that the “highly asymmetric” economic
fallout of the war was disproportionately affecting energy-importing and
low-income countries.
Lebanon has asked the ‘IRANIAN AMBASSADOR’ to
leave the country immediately, as reported.
Iran was mostly inactive today—but USA and
ISRAEL pulverized ISPAHAN, from where secondary explosions after bombing was
reported.
WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)
Kyiv and Washington agreed to fortify an outline
for U.S. postwar security guarantees for Ukraine at virtual talks yesterday,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
also joined the call.
The United States and Denmark are in talks over
U.S. access to three more military bases in Greenland, two of which U.S. forces
previously abandoned, the New York Times reported.
The United States lifted sanctions on
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez yesterday that were imposed in
2018 when the United States accused her of undermining democracy in the
country.
The Cook Islands and New Zealand signed a
security declaration today pledging to consult each other on defense matters,
reaffirming ties that were strained by the Cook Islands’ partnership deal with
China last year. The Polynesian nation is a former New Zealand colony that now
self-governs under a free association pact with Wellington.
Operations at Israel’s offshore Leviathan gas
field are resuming after a monthlong suspension caused by regional hostilities,
according to a statement received from the Israeli Energy Ministry.
MISHAPS:
In Pakistan, 12 people have died over the past
24 hours after heavy rains, thunderstorms, and flash floods affected multiple
provinces.
WILD LIFE:
Kuno National Park now holds 50 cheetahs, well
past its carrying capacity of 27. The Rajasthan corridor has been shelved.
Gandhi Sagar is still waiting for its first litter. So, the next site will be
Nauradehi, in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand. The complication: Nauradehi was
declared a tiger reserve in 2023, and over two dozen tigers already live there.
These cheetahs, born in India from African
parents, have never encountered a tiger. The two species historically coexisted
on the subcontinent, but the animals being asked to figure it out in 2026 carry
none of that evolutionary memory. It could be a very
costly experiment, may be leading to a disaster!
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
Three
American and one Canadian astronaut lifted off from Florida yesterday on NASA’s
Artemis II mission to orbit the moon. NASA aims to put humans back on the moon
by 2028.
Indian
firm Adani Green Energy announced plans to complete the world’s largest
renewable power plant by 2029. The solar plant, located in the Western Indian State
Of Gujarat, will cover more than two hundred square miles, equivalent to nearly
ten times the size of Manhattan.
A leasing agreement has been signed between
Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited (BCGCL) and Mahanadi Coalfields
Limited (MCL) for a Coal to Ammonium Nitrate Project at Lakhanpur, Odisha. The
project reflects India’s push to utilise domestic coal resources for
value-added chemical production, particularly in fertilisers and industrial
applications.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT:
The
Supreme Court took a serious note of an
incident in West Bengal’s Malda district where seven judicial officials engaged
in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise were taken hostage, terming it
deplorable. Taking suo motu cognisance of the incident, the court criticised
the state administration and sought responses from the state Chief Secretary,
Director General of Police and other officials over their inaction on the
issue.
GAMES & SPORTS: -
In
Boxing, India’s Aditya Pratap Yadav stormed into the quarter finals of the
Asian Boxing Championships defeating Saudi Arabia’s Mousa Alhawsaw in men’s
65kg category at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.
DAS KAPITAL:
Indian
Share Market: -
*BSE
SENSEX* 73,319.55 +185.23 (0.25%🌲
*NIFTY* 22,713.10 +33.70 (0.15%)🌲
BULLIONS:
*GOLD* : ₹ 14,900/ 01gm (24 krt)
*SILVER* : ₹ 2,49,000/KG
Currency
Exchange Rates:
*Euro*
: ₹107/-*USD* ₹ 92/- *China¥* : ₹ 13/-
WHAT ARE NEXT:
Today,
the UN Security Council holds consultations with Gulf Cooperation Council and
League of Arab States members in New York.
Tomorrow,
Russia hosts an economic forum with officials from post-Soviet states in
Moscow.
THE END.
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