The choice before India is therefore not between Atmanirbharta and globalisation, but between passive and strategic integration By Anuj GuptaThe WTO‘s 2026 World Trade Report comes at an awkward time for India. The world is becoming more fragmented, governments are rediscovering industrial policy, supply chains are being rearranged and confidence in ever-deeper trade liberalisation has…
PC: Alastair Rae/ Wikipedia Oilbirds spend their nights flying through tropical forests in search of fruit, but some of them take an unexpected approach to reach their feeding grounds. Some birds regularly returned to the same main cave after feeding. Others made long-distance trips but returned to the cave within three days. A third group…
Oracle’s layoffs on September 14 reached Abilene, Texas, the site the company has spent months holding up as evidence that its OpenAI partnership is on track. One employee there, an IC2 in OCI who says he joined on February 2, described the morning on r/employeesOfOracle: the termination email arrived at 5am Central, he did not…
The building was originally constructed in 1907 and was later redesigned by architects Fisher & Fisher (Photos: JLL Investor Center) Denver’s historic bank building at 821 17th Street remains completely vacant despite a $22.4 million renovation after its owner bought the property for $17.6 million in 2017. The nine-storey building, now known as The Vault,…
Naraz Fufa is increasingly annoyed There is a new character loose in India’s public conversation: Naraz Fufa (the annoyed uncle). He isn’t a real person, he’s a composite, the voice of India’s aspirational middle class, irritated in a very particular way. This character has a salaried job or a small business, children in school or…
Tom Hanks started his own brand of coffee 4 years ago, with all of the proceeds from the sales going to war veterans and organizations that work towards their well-being. (YouTube) In 2022, beloved star Tom Hanks, who is best known for his roles in ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ started a new kind of…
The Mumbai Police has transferred the case to the Crime Branch after the student’s father filed a complaint NEW DELHI: Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed on Monday expressed solidarity with an IIT Bombay professor accused by the father of a second-year BTech student of harassing his son, saying that students in her generation were “mentally strong”.The…
Congress targets PM Modi, Centre over rising food prices, inflation. NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government over “skyrocketing prices” of food and other commodities, using the popular Bollywood song “Kya hua tera vada” to question the PM’s silence on inflation.Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared a media…
Canada’s immigration authority has stepped in to clear up some of the most common confusion facing travellers. IRCC shared a post of social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) publishing a set of answers to the questions it says that visitors ask most often and the responses are worth a read before you book…
A man walks past an Indian Rupee symbol installation at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) headquarters in Mumbai, India, August 5, 2026. The rupee rose 5 paise to 95.82 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday, after closing at 95.87 on Friday, as traders watched oil prices and foreign portfolio flows for…