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Yemen Quagmire: Houthis Hit Riyadh Again

Houthi missiles targeting Riyadh's King Khalid Airport as fighting rages in Yemen shows West Asia conflict is escalating, with direct implications for Indian workers and oil prices.

By Cult Current Desk • 08 Oct 2026

POLITICS

Vote Chori vs Gyanesh Kumar: Rahul's Resistance Gamble

Rahul Gandhi's second detention in two days over alleged vote theft has shifted the INDIA bloc's battle from Parliament to the pavement, making CEC resignation its rallying cry.

By Cult Current Desk • 08 Oct 2026

ECONOMY

Who Owns Spirit?

Supreme Court said states can regulate industrial alcohol. Now GST Council must decide if 18% GST stays or states levy excise. States lost revenue since Oct 2023 - need clarity Thursday.

By Cult Current Desk • 08 Oct 2026

ECONOMY

Poison Apple Of Insurance

Insurance sold ₹1.93 lakh cr premium in FY25 but penetration flat at 3.7%. FM's rebuke on surrenders forced IRDAl to propose capping commissions symptom, not cure.

By Cult Current Desk • 08 Oct 2026

ECONOMY

Lemon Market Lives On

Twenty-five years after

By Cult Current Desk • 08 Oct 2026

POLITICS

Vote Chori vs Gyanesh Kumar: Rahul's Resistance Gamble

Rahul Gandhi's second detention in two days over alleged vote theft has shifted the INDIA bloc's battle from Parliament to the pavement, making CEC resignation its rallying cry.

By Cult Current Desk 08 Oct 2026

Jantar Mantar: The New Forbidden Zone

Delhi Police is turning Jantar Mantar from a protest square into a surveillance zone ahead of October 10 agitation, raising urgent questions about dissent in Indian democracy.

By Cult Current Desk 08 Oct 2026

Syllabus of Silence

NCERT's new Class IX textbook asks big questions but avoids answers. The real distortion is not error, but erasure - compressing 13th-17th centuries into religious antagonism for young minds.

By Cult Current Desk 07 Oct 2026

From Marx To Saffron: Who Owns Our Past?

NCERT Class 9 book "Understanding Society - India and Beyond" reopens old battle: did UPA erase, did NDA distort? How history textbooks mirror the politics of the present?

By Cult Current Desk 06 Oct 2026

Gate Closed, Hunger Ignored

At Ambedkar University, students protesting for six days for water, classrooms and faculty were allegedly blocked from receiving food at the Kashmere Gate campus, sparking a rights debate.

By Cult Current Desk 06 Oct 2026

Economy

Repo Shock: RBI's 5.5% Reality Check

After four pauses and a 125 bps cut cycle, RBI's surprise 25 bps hike to 5.5% signals that India's inflation fight is far from over despite strong growth.

By Cult Current Desk 08 Oct 2026

Economy

Who Owns Spirit?

Supreme Court said states can regulate industrial alcohol. Now GST Cou...

08 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Poison Apple Of Insurance

Insurance sold ₹1.93 lakh cr premium in FY25 but penetration flat at 3...

08 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Lemon Market Lives On

Twenty-five years after

08 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Economy

Swiss Fix For TEPA

Despite EFTA FTA for a year, India's exports to Switzerland fell 22.7%...

08 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

VIDEO

Science

Mirror Breakthrough: Nobel For Chirality

French-Japanese duo's Chemistry Nobel for controlling mirrored molecules is not abstract science; it is the key to safer drugs and cheaper agrochemicals for India.

By Cult Current Desk 08 Oct 2026

Science

Nobel Medicine 2026

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win Nobel Medicine 202...

07 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Science

Count Every Cancer

Supreme Court asks 19 states to make cancer notifiable. If implemented...

07 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Science

When Elephants Self - Prescribe

From orangutans to chimpanzees, zoopharmacognosy is known. Now African...

05 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Science

3,832 Children, A 2027 Promise

India wants zero leprosy transmission by 2027. But 3,832 children infe...

05 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Society

Japan Beyond Anime

Veena World's Japan pitch sells cherry blossoms, but the real Japan that Indian travellers miss is the Japan of silence, solo women travellers, and a farmer who refused an airport.

By Cult Current Desk 07 Oct 2026

Society

City On The Clock

From Mumbai's Rajabai to Kanpur's Mandir wala Ghanta Ghar, India's clo...

07 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Society

Peasant Pasts and Future

Maryam Aslany's sweeping history argues peasants built civilisations a...

06 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Society

Nilima's Mountains Speak Of Melting

In her first New York solo at MoMA, artist Nilima Sheikh expands her e...

06 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk

Society

Gulzar: 92 And Still Spinning Silk

At 92, Gulzar sits with his new book Aasman Mein Mil - My City In Stor...

06 Oct 2026 • Cult Current Desk