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As Indian firms integrate into global conflict supply chains, US sanction on a Raipur explosives company reveals the accountability gap at the heart of India’s defense boom India’s arms are showing up across the world. Brahmos missiles to Vietnam. Pinaka rocket systems to Armenia. Avionics and subsystems to the US. Even artillery shell components in…

Footballers’ celebrations are a story by themselves. After a goal by Erling Haaland – who else – took Norway to World Cup prequarterfinals, he struck a post-match pose, wearing the horned Viking helmet. Contrast that with his signature post-goal yoga pose: eyes closed, fingers in Gyan Mudra, as he did after his goal against Iraq….

The country came within a single Supreme Court vote of overturning more than a century of settled birthright law. That’s how fragile even its oldest constitutional guarantees have become under Trump On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court narrowly upheld the long-standing US practice of awarding citizenship to all children born in the country, regardless of…

Unlike the dotcom peak, when tech-fuelled returns were spilling across industries and markets, today investors are sucking money away from non-AI industries, and from nations peripheral to the AI boom It’s hard to recall a time when global markets were so obsessed with a single storyline. AI boom is now so powerful and widespread in…

A writer trolled online for alleged AI-aided storytelling, has been cleared. There’s a big lesson here for many  A winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Trinidadian Jamir Nazir, is not a BOThor (bot+author), organisers of the prize confirmed, after their own weeks-long investigation. The absolute storm over online allegations – that so-called ‘AI detectors’…

Our phone numbers have become our identifiers online. That’s dangerous. But what can we do about it? In 2010, Dutch developers built a website called ‘PleaseRobMe.com’. The idea was so simple, they had it up and running in four hours. It was also sensational, because by tapping residents’ location data from Twitter – now X…

A writer was wrongly accused of using AI to write a story. The truth teaches us an important lesson. Jamir Nazir from Trinidad won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Soon after, people on social media claimed that AI had written his story. They pointed to AI-detection tools as “proof”. The rumours spread around the world…

The most interesting AI governance experiment in the world right now is not happening in developed economies, rather some crucial experiments are happening in developing economies including India, Indonesia and Kenya. Emerging economies are facing a unique challenge. They must regulate rapidly expanding AI-driven financial systems that serve populations with limited legal recourse, often without…

Raj Kishore Gupta was discovered by sculptor/architect Nimesh Pilla more than a year ago. His show Indigenous Accents that opens at Bikaner House on 2nd July 2026 is a delightful mix of magic and caprice all created on live edge wooden tree trunks and slabs from Sheesham and Kikar trees in Chandigarh.   Quartet of…

A few months back, I went looking for an old email attachment. It had vanished from my Drive, and what should have been a two-minute search turned into an hour lost inside my own inbox, the way these things do. I never found the attachment. What I found instead was a letter I had written when…