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Samudra Manthan is becoming a global race, UN seabed laws are yet to catch up

Down in the deep ocean, just being good at science is quickly becoming a new form of hard power. The maps, the sensors, and the baseline data a country gathers while they are 'just exploring' can very easily become the exact infrastructure they need to eventually control and exploit the deep ocean frontier.
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The new global frontier is the deep ocean. Is India ready?

An exploration contract allows a country to study an area, map its geology and collect samples. It does not give permission to start mining. At present, no country has an approved commercial exploitation contract for minerals in the international seabed, including India.
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Indus water treaty, India, Pakistan and Islamic terrorism

The water treaty that wasn’t built for terrorism: India, Pakistan and the Indus River system

Whatever India intended by holding the treaty in abeyance, physically choking Pakistan’s water supply was never actually on the table; the infrastructure for it does not exist, and cannot be built quickly even if Delhi wanted to try. What India suspended was information and process, not flow.
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Battle for Election Commissioners in Independent India

3 vs 1: The battle for Election Commissioners in democratic India

October 6, 2026

Seshan dusted off the Model Code of Conduct. It was a campaign rulebook that had basically been sitting on a shelf gathering dust since the 1960s, but Seshan gave it teeth. Suddenly, sitting ministers and powerful ruling parties were getting slapped with violations. He ordered repolls. He disqualified politicians for blowing past spending limits. For the first time ever, the threat of cancelling an election wasn’t just empty talk. It was a loaded weapon.

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India’s reckoning with deep sea mining and research

September 25, 2026

At ONGC’s August 2026 AGM, Chairman A.K. Singh said the company will invest about ₹1 lakh crore in cash over five years to drill 87 deepwater wells by March 2031, roughly ₹20,000 crore a year. They’ll start slow with just four wells in FY26, but plan to crank it up to 27 in the final year. Singh didn’t mince words about why they’re in such a mad dash, either: India’s crude output has been sliding downhill for eleven straight years.

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Disasters in India and the politics of ribbon cutting

August 28, 2026

There’s no ceremony for a retaining wall that quietly held, no ribbon cutting for a drainage channel that was cleared before the monsoon instead of after it. In maintenance, success looks like nothing happening at all, and that’s a hard thing for any political system to celebrate or campaign on.

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