Smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the area where the US Embassy is located in Kuwait City on Monday. —AFP
An emergency vehicle passes by the entrance of RAF Akrotiri, a British sovereign base in Cyprus, which was hit by an unmanned drone overnight, causing limited damage, Cyprus March 2, 2026. —Reuters
Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 2, 2026.— Reuters
A fence of RAF Akrotiri, a British sovereign base in Cyprus, which was hit by an unmanned drone overnight, causing limited damage, Cyprus March 2, 2026. —Reuters
The government no longer has the budgetary space to continue carrying hundreds of billions of rupees in untargeted subsidies while the power sector itself remains trapped in circular debt, inefficiencies, theft and under-recovery.