The Frontier

Kira Huyu explains that at least 16 of India's 28 states have female-only direct cash transfer schemes, often introduced before elections, providing $9 to $27 monthly to women half as likely to hold jobs.

India's states spent over $18 billion on unconditional cash transfers last financial year; West Bengal’s flagship Lakshmi Bandha scheme consumes 10% of its revenue, raising concerns about crowding out education and healthcare investment.

Kira reports India’s Christians comprise about 2% of the population, with Muslims at 15% and Hindus at 80%, a demographic context for rising Hindu nationalist policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP government.

Kira details how anti-conversion laws in BJP-ruled states have proliferated, with 14 of India's 28 states now having such statutes, including Chhattisgarh's March 2024 law which defines coercion broadly and can impose life sentences or fines near $27,000.

Carlson questions the morality of sex selection, referencing demographic imbalances in China and India. The CEO says it is the parents' prerogative and claims in the US, sex selection in IVF results in roughly a 50-50 split.

Parsi argues Iran prepared for a blockade by positioning significant oil in floating storage outside the Gulf, much of it destined for China via a 'ghost fleet' of tankers. A full blockade would also punish China and India, creating a direct confrontation.

Chinese producers circumvented US honey tariffs through transshipment, rerouting honey through countries like Vietnam, India, Taiwan, and Myanmar. A Georgetown study found Myanmar and Taiwan reported a physically impossible 500% increase in honey production in a single year, revealing the fraud.

Ghamari-Tabrizi describes Iran's foreign policy as nationalistic and pragmatic, focused on domestic security rather than dominion abroad, citing their siding with Armenia over Azerbaijan or India over Pakistan.