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A group of young men said to be linked to the Indian Youth Congress, a major wing of the Indian National Congress which is India's primary Opposition Party, staged a brief shirtless protest inside New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam on February 20, 2026. They disrupted proceedings at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, a high-profile event that is being attended by global technology leaders and government officials.  Shirtless Protest Snap; Via: TheIndeWire on X Police authorities have been reported saying that around 10 to 15 protesters entered Hall No. 5, which is an exhibition and conference space within the venue, using valid entry passes or QR codes.  They then began removing their shirts and chanting slogans targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. जब विदेश नीति में झुकाव, कॉरपोरेट दबाव और चुप्पी हावी हो… तो साफ है, PM मोदी COMPROMISED हैं!! 🔥 इसी सच्चाई को बेनकाब करने भारतीय युवा कांग्रेस के जाबांज कार्यकर्ता AI Summit पहुँचे और “Compromised PM” के खिलाफ विरोध प...

The Prayagraj Mela Authority has issued a formal notice to Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, questioning his use of the title “Shankaracharya” of Jyotirmath, one of Hinduism’s four cardinal seats of Advaita Vedanta.  Citing a 2022 interim Supreme Court stay on his coronation, the administration has demanded a response within 24 hours, escalating a standoff that began during the Mauni Amavasya bathing ritual at the Magh Mela in Uttar Pradesh. Image Source: Dr. Kiran J Patel on X The notice references a civil appeal pending before the Supreme Court in the matter of “Jagat Guru Shankaracharya Jyotishpeeth P.S.S.N. Saraswati vs Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati,” a longstanding dispute over the rightful successor to the Jyotish Peeth.  In October 2022, the Court explicitly stayed the pattabhishek (coronation) of Avimukteshwaranand or any other individual to the Shankaracharya post pending final adjudication. Despite this, the seer has publicly presented himself as the Jyotirmath Shan...

Iran is once again at the brink. Six days into the largest protests the country has witnessed since 2022, the Islamic Republic finds itself in a precarious domestic and geopolitical bind—grappling with mass unrest triggered by the freefall of its national currency and inflamed by a public still raw from last summer’s U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites.  The volatility is now deepening into a full-blown crisis, marked by the return of U.S. President Donald Trump to a confrontational posture and a defiant volley of warnings from Tehran’s security establishment. File Photo: Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani; Via: TheCradleMedia The current wave of protests erupted after the Iranian rial plunged to an all-time low of 1.4 million to the U.S. dollar, prompting the resignation of Central Bank governor Mohammad Reza Farzin. Merchants in Tehran’s historic Saadi Street and Grand Bazaar, long seen as economic and political bellwethers, shuttered shops in sy...