G7 leaders on Wednesday agreed to strengthen cooperation to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals, unveiling plans to coordinate stockpiling, boost recycling and create a new platform with an expanded role for the International Energy Agency (IEA).The move comes as Western nations seek to secure supplies of minerals crucial for defence, artificial intelligence,…

I traverse the sun-baked Balochistan desert, my motorbike laden with fuel, a silhouette against the immense, arid expanse. Motorbike riders in Pakistan’s Balochistan province are risking extreme heat, armed conflict and deadly accidents to transport smuggled Iranian fuel across the country, as higher oil prices linked to the recent Iran-Israel conflict boost demand for cheaper…

The United States has reportedly delayed adding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to a trade blacklist, even though the company was approved for inclusion last year, according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter. DeepSeek attracted global attention in January 2025 after launching a low-cost AI model that challenged assumptions about the cost…

The incident took place on June 5 when Manish Gupta, a grocery market broker-turned-businessman, allegedly saw his wife Niharika Gupta speaking to her boyfriend on the phone. KANPUR: A woman in Kanpur allegedly stabbed her husband to death following an argument over her relationship with another man, with her family claiming that the man on…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been making headlines for the past few weeks for its much-awaited IPO that is set to make many people billionaires. As of now, the private space company is trending for acquiring a startup for a whopping $60 billion.Cursor, a San Francisco-based AI coding startup was founded in 2022 by four MIT…