What is the true history of Medina’s Jewish tribes, and how did Yemen’s Aus and Khazraj end up in Arabia? What came of the vicious 120-year war between those two Yemeni clans, and whose side did the Jews take? What roots really birthed Ansar Allah, and how did they fight alongside the Prophet? @ashu_nauty breaks down the full story.

Punjab’s farm fires are down 94% since 2020, yet Delhi’s air remains polluted. Stubble’s average share of Delhi’s PM2.5 has fallen from ~13% in 2020 to just 3.5% in 2025. On peak wind days it can still spike, but vehicles, dust, construction, industry and local sources dominate most of the year, and the air stays bad long after the burning season ends. Beyond the burn, what really chokes the capital of India: chapter1mag.com/polity/delhi…

Brutal civil war, starvation, and endless rubble, has this always been Yemen’s curse? Why was this land once hailed as Arabia Felix, made fabulously wealthy by precious frankincense? Who were the fierce tribes that guarded Yemen’s treasures? @ashu_nauty unpacks the history.

One of eMudhra’s secret keys was just the number 4. PHP needed emergency fixes. What went wrong behind the websites we use, and what could it mean for users? Explains @LekhakAnurag chapter1mag.com/stem/emudhra…

Violence in Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh: A perspective With the Yarlung Tsangpo mega project, China wants to produce 3X more electricity than the Three Gorges Dam. Downstream, the same river is called Siang in Arunachal Pradesh. The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project is not just about hydropower, it is India trying to have some say over a mighty river whose enormous flow is going to be under China's control, because gravity and geography have decided so. On Oct 24, violent 'GenZ' protestors injured 40 policemen, set fire to the NHPC office, and vandalised houses of MLAs in Pasighat, opposing the Siang Upper project. Read why the SUMP is crucial, not just because Arunachal holds roughly 40% of India’s hydropower potential, with only a small installed capacity, but for national security reasons too. chapter1mag.com/geopolitics/…

Who are the Houthis? How did the Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis end up at war? How did fighters in rubber sandals manage to hold off the world’s most advanced militaries and choke global maritime trade? In this video, @ashu_nauty unpacks the history of Yemen, the rise of the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah), the Zaidi identity, and why Saudi Arabia and Western powers have struggled to defeat them.

Samudra Manthan is becoming a global race, UN seabed laws are yet to catch up chapter1mag.com/geopolitics/…

A confrontation is unfolding in the SC over the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026. As paramilitary cadre officers challenge the statutory lock-in of IPS deputation quotas, the battle exposes a deep institutional friction chapter1mag.com/polity/ips-c…

According to the European Central Bank’s June 2026 report, at the end of 2025, gold had become about 27% of the world’s central banks’ foreign reserves, up from 20% a year earlier chapter1mag.com/commerce/gol…

India buys almost nine out of every ten barrels of crude it uses from abroad, yet it is the world’s second-largest exporter of refined fuel. This single fact explains much of the global oil story of the last four years chapter1mag.com/commerce/ind…

The Starlink Tantrum: Debunking Elon Musk’s meltdown over Starlink in India chapter1mag.com/polity/elon-…

The Union Cabinet approved NFIES on 19th June 2024. The scheme covers five financial years, beginning in 2024-25 and ending in 2028-29, with the establishment of new university campuses and laboratories as its principal components chapter1mag.com/polity/india…