France’s Kylian Mbappe (10) celebrates his team victory at the end of the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Paraguay and France in Philadelphia, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside. Yesterday was a rather odd day without a single match, which made all football…
US President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (from left) I Credits: X/@GENTomSGates83 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s last-minute scramble onto Air Force One in Alaska was supposed to signal a thaw. Two days later, as Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping wrapped up, the Nvidia chief was flying home with the same problem…
UP housing and development board (UPHDB) has started the process to demolish 44 sealed properties in the Shastri Nagar Residential Scheme No. 7, a residential and commercial area in Meerut. This comes in compliance with a Supreme Court order dated July 14.Deputy housing commissioner Anil Kumar told PTI that 859 properties are classified as illegal…
Indian-American businessman Debashis Ghosh to lose US citizenship over past fraud. Debashis Ghosh, a 62-year-old Indian-American businessman, is likely to lose his US citizenship as the Department of Justice moved to denaturalize him along with 11 other individuals. Ghosh committed wire fraud before and after he became a US citizen in 2012 and he was…
Congress overcomes weak organisation with united frontThe Congress-led UDF swept back into govt in Kerala on Monday after a 10-year hiatus, riding a largerthan-expected anti-incumbency wave across the state against the Pinarayi Vijayan govt. UDF won 102 seats in the 140-member legislative assembly. The magnitude of the victory surprised even the winners. The major factor…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected the premise that the company would inevitably lose the Chinese market to domestic rivals like Huawei, calling the idea defeatist. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, Huang argued that computing ecosystems—unlike consumer products—are deeply sticky and hard to replace, pointing to CUDA’s developer lock-in as a structural advantage. He also said…
Just like the SPR creates storage reserves, there is now a need to create another SPR- Strategic Pricing Reserves. (AI image) By Col Rajeev Agarwal (Retired), Senior Research Consultant, CRFWith the signing of the MoU by President Trump and President Pezeshkian on 16 June and the operationalisation of the Roadmap of 60 days, there is…
CRPF jawan injured, houses set ablaze in Manipur (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Several houses were set ablaze and a CRPF jawan was later injured in a gunfight between two groups in Manipur’s Senapati district on Monday, police said.According to a senior officer, houses were set ablaze after miscreants torched a house in Taphou Kuki village…
Harshkumar Patel has asked the US court quash his convictions A US court has been asked to overturn the conviction and sentence of Harshkumar Patel, a man found guilty in a human smuggling case linked to the freezing deaths of an Indian family of four near the Manitoba–Minnesota border in 2022.Patel was convicted in 2024…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Tuesday withdrew its appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta high court’s May 2024 judgment that struck down the inclusion of 77 communities, including 75 Muslim communities, in the state’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.The Supreme Court allowed the withdrawal after the state informed the court that…