On June 12, 2026, history was made — not at a government summit, not at a UN conference, not by any elected leader. It was made at the Nasdaq in New York, by a single person from South Africa who dropped out of a PhD program to build rockets. Elon...
India’s LPG price hike is not an energy story. It is a poverty story dressed in the language of global markets. There is a number the government announces. And then there is the number that actually matters. When oil marketing companies raised the price of a domestic LPG cylinder by...
Dhurandhar and its sequel, Dhurandhar: The Revenge, have broken box office records. But the films do something risky. They mix real people, real deaths, and real political events with pure fiction. Most viewers walk out believing everything they saw. They should not. Here is the line between fact and fantasy....
After 104 days of war, West Asia may finally be moving toward peace. On June 11, President Trump announced that he had cancelled the strikes planned against Iran that evening. His reason: the deal had been “brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” He said the signing...
On the night of June 9, an American aircraft fired precision munitions into the engine room of a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The ship, the Settebello, carried 24 Indian crew members. Three of them are now confirmed dead. The United States says the ship violated its naval...
On 10 June 2026, Narendra Modi crossed a line in Indian history. With twelve years in office, he became the country’s longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister, passing Jawaharlal Nehru’s record. The NDA marked the moment with a large conclave at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi, where 72 leaders, including all...
People keep asking me why I do all my work on Claude instead of ChatGPT. My answer is a story that most people have not heard. It is the story of how a quiet company with 30 times fewer users quietly overtook the most famous AI company on Earth. The...
Three days. That is all it took for a two-month ceasefire to fall apart. On the morning of June 10, 2026, today, air raid sirens screamed across three countries at once. Missiles flew toward Jordan. Drones headed for Bahrain. Kuwait’s defences fired into the dark sky. And somewhere in the...
For years, the idea of plastic money in India was a rumour that came and went. Now it is back, and this time it looks more serious. In its board meetings held in Patna and Mumbai, the Reserve Bank of India discussed bringing in polymer (plastic) banknotes once again. RBI...
In recent months, videos of Indian tourists performing garba dances at airports, metro stations, and famous international landmarks have gone viral. While some people viewed these acts as a celebration of Indian culture, others criticized them as disruptive, inappropriate, and inconsiderate of public spaces. The controversy has triggered a much...
