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India has faced significant disruption to energy supplies routed through the Strait of Hormuz. (AI image) For the first time in several years, India has reportedly purchased liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from Iran after the Donald Trump administration granted a 30-day sanctions waiver to keep oil and gas prices in check. India had stopped energy…
The Strait of Hormuz is at the centre of the US-Iran war, and the world is being reminded of a hard geopolitical truth: when a narrow waterway is threatened, the shock travels far beyond the battlefield.Tankers slow, insurers panic, freight costs jump, and energy markets convulse. Watch ‘Stop Fighting’: China’s Blunt Message To Iran &…
China has barred two co-founders of Manus AI startup from leaving the company amid an ongoing probe into its $2 billion acquisition by Meta, reported Financial Times. The move comes as authorities review whether the deal violated foreign direct investment rules and national security rules. As per the report, the founders – Xiao Hong and…
For more than a century, global power has often flowed not just from armies or governments, but from tightly knit financial networks — from dynasties like the Rothschilds in Europe to the Rockefellers in the United States, whose influence helped shape modern capitalism, oil markets, and geopolitics. In 2012, when RIT Capital Partners linked with…
China’s People’s Liberation Army sharply condemned Japan’s planned deployment of upgraded Type‑12 surface-to-ship missiles, warning that the move could establish a “kill network” capable of striking both coastal and inland targets in neighbouring countries. The criticism comes as Tokyo prepares to expand its long-range strike capabilities amid rising tensions over Taiwan and the East China…
Asia-Pacific economies entered 2026 on a fragile footing. (AI image) Asia-Pacific economies have entered 2026 on a fragile footing, and the US-Israel-Iran war has exacerbated the risks to GDP growth for economies like China, India, and other major countries in the region, says Moody’s Analytics in its latest report.The global economy has been undergoing a…
Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer, Palantir America’s factory floor is about to get a high-tech adrenaline shot, and this might just save the free world from a shooting war with Beijing. Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer of defense technology ginat Palantir, has a message for all the Doomsayers claiming robots are coming for your jobs….
Co-founder of Super Micro Computer Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw has resigned from the company’s board after being indicted in the US for allegedly smuggling equipment containing Nvidia artificial intelligence chips into China. Yih-Shyan Liaw co-founded Super Micro in 1993, and joined its board of directors in 2023. Liaw along with Ruei-Tsang Chang, and Ting-Wei Sun in…
NEW DELHI: Nearly six years after India tightened scrutiny of foreign direct investment from countries sharing land borders, the government has initiated a recalibration of the framework governing such investments, allowing minority ownership structures routed through overseas entities to access the automatic route while retaining approval requirements for direct investments from neighbouring jurisdictions.The Union Cabinet…
Representative Image. In pic: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei The US Department of War has reportedly raised new national security concerns about Anthropic. In a recent court filing tied to an ongoing legal dispute with the AI company, the Pentagon has cited the Claude developer’s use of foreign workers, including those from China. The Department of…
