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For Class 12, the exam scheduled on March 7 has been postponed and the situation will be reviewed for future exams

Unlike the President, the Supreme Leader doesnt have any fixed term. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has had only two Supreme Leaders Khomeini (who died in 1989) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated by a joint American-Israeli strike on February 28, 2026

No party is expected to win a majority on its own; while Balendra Shah is the frontrunner, he may need support from the older political elite who too are eyeing a comeback after the Gen Z protests

The Minuteman III is an intercontinental ballistic missile and forms one of the three pillars of the United States nuclear triad.

This e-book explores a nation grappling with the gradual decay of its original revolutionary ideals, its Resistance Economy that is designed to survive but not thrive, and the future of the Axis of Resistance.

Sri Lanka on Wednesday (March 4, 2026) said it had recovered over 80 bodies of Iranian sailors killed after a U.S. submarine attack sank the Iranian frigate - IRIS Dena - off Galle, the island's southern coastal town

The official reaction from Tehran comes a day after a U.S. submarine attacked Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which sank in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lankas southern coast

The letter is the first significant support Anthropic has received from the tech industry, a group of companies that includes its investors, suppliers and customers

To develop and use AI, the main players in the sector use data centres, whose chips and servers consume a lot of electricity

With a global population of 30 to 45 million people, they are one of the significant stateless ethnic group.

Asim Munir visited Wana in South Waziristan district along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where he reviewed the prevailing security situation and operational preparedness

OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, Amazon and others, announced a deal late last week to deploy its technology in the Pentagons classified network

China's economy grew by 5% last year to $20.01 trillion, riding high on the robust exports despite U.S. tariffs, while domestic consumption, its bugbear, remained sluggish.

The voting started at 7 a.m. and will conclude at 5 p.m.; the counting will start immediately after the ballot boxes are collected

Mark Carney spoke in the nations capital on the third day of an official visit to Australia, a trip aimed at bringing in investment and deepening ties with a fellow middle power partner

The war powers resolution gave lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out; the vote forced them to take a stand on a war shaping the fate of U.S. military members, countless other lives and the future of the region.

Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina in a sign of continued frustration with the department's review and release of a tranche of documents regarding the disgraced financier

We will not be complicit in something that is harmful to the world and contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of retaliation, Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after Trump had lashed out at Sanchez's government, calling Spain a errible ally

The U.S. strike triggered a distress call and the Sri Lankan armed forces launched a search and rescue operation

A joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have plunged West Asia into a fastspreading war, with Tehran and its allies launching retaliatory strikes across Israel, the Gulf and U.S. bases.

Under the rules, the new parliament must meet within 15 days of certification; it will elect a speaker and deputy speaker and will then choose a Prime Minister, who will move to form a government

The U.K. said it will deploy a Royal Navy warship to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster security around its Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Akrotiri in Cyprus

Without mentioning U.S. President Donald Trump by name, Foreign Ministry spokesperson alluded to his call for Iranians to take power from the clerical leadership

It's not clear how Mr. Trump would cut off trade with Spain, a European Union member. The EU negotiates trade on behalf of all its 27 members

The NDSC warned businesses and individuals not to hoard fuel for resale at inflated prices, saying that violators would be prosecuted

The votes in Congress this week represented potentially consequential markers of just where lawmakers stand on the war as they look ahead to midterm elections and the consequences of the conflict

On this day (March 3) in 1923, the first issue of Time magazine was published.A quiz on Americas first newsweekly.

The US military commander in the Middle East says American forces have struck nearly 2,000 targets so far in Iran as part of the largest firepower buildup in the region in a generation

It said there was no change to the status of its embassy in the capital Islamabad

The election is being held two years early due to Gen Z protests that resulted in 77 deaths, including 19 from police gunfire on the first day of demonstrations on September 8

Strategic and institutional investors including Yara International back PlasmaLeap to develop Green Fertiliser Technology

Demand for charter flights has skyrocketed, with some people paying up to $ 2,32,000 as major airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, Qatar, were closed after the start of the conflict last weekend

If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible, Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

Mr. Trump told reporters that Germany had been helping out by allowing U.S. forces to access certain bases, and drew a sharp contrast to the actions of two other European countries: Britain and Spain

Veterans such as Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and K.P. Sharma Oli face tough contest in the first election since the 2025 Gen Z protests. Rastriya Swatantra Party holds an edge and its leader Balendra Shah, 35, remains a hugely popular figure. The youth vote is likely to play a decisive role amid a strong anti-incumbency sentiment.

Keir Starmer had not permitted the U.S. access to U.K. bases initially, later, permitting access for agreed defensive purposes only

During the strike on the compound, numerous munitions were dropped on the presidential office and the building of the Supreme National Security Council, Irans military said

Stranded Indian passengers have begun returning home as flight operations from the Middle East gradually resume following days of disruptions

Iraqs northern autonomous Kurdish region hosts camps and rear-bases operated by several Iranian Kurdish rebel groups, which have repeatedly faced cross-border strikes from Iran

Mr. Macron announced that eight European countries including Germany, Poland, Sweden and Britain had agreed to participate in what he called a forward nuclear deterrence scheme

Meanwhile, Iranian state media said the Guards had targetted a United States air base in Bahrain

Sam Altman said on Monday that OpenAI is working with the U.S. Department of Defense to make some changes in their agreement

Prediction markets let users bet on the outcomes of real world events, but this has raised ethical questions about allowing people to profit from violence, war, and assassinations in Iran

Since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks on Israel and Gulf states started on February 28, commercial flights have been halted or heavily restricted

Trump said that the war, which began on February 28, with a strike that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was going substantially ahead of schedule but that the United States was equipped for a prolonged conflict

The Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for Tehran residents, especially those located near the headquarters of Irans state broadcaster IRIB