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The announcement of an India-US trade agreement has led some to ask what happened to Indian strategic autonomy. This criticism, however, misses two points. First, Indian govts have often made foreign policy trade-offs when there’s a worthwhile payoff. Second, the deals with the US and the European Union can enhance rather than weaken India’s strategic…
Elon Musk has pushed back against comments made by Peter Thiel who recently said that the Tesla CEO had lost faith in the idea of humans settling on Mars. The response came after a social media user shared excerpts from a recent conversation involving Thiel, published via the New York Times, in which the investor…
Most of us don’t think about our liver at all. Not when we wake up. Not when we eat. Not even when we’re stressed about work or money. The heart gets all the attention. So do the lungs, the brain, even the gut these days. But the liver? It just quietly does its job in…
For nearly twenty years, people couldn’t look away from Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Bennifer, as everyone fondly called them, wasn’t just a celebrity couple; they became a pop culture phenomenon. They were glamorous, messy, and fairly impossible to ignore.The first time around, back in the early 2000s, they redefined what it meant to be…
US President Donald Trump has claimed that his sweeping tariff policies have created an “American economic miracle”, dismissing warnings of global fallout and asserting that critics of his trade strategy “were all wrong”.In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, Trump said the tariffs he imposed on nearly all foreign countries last April…
It’s often easier to blindfold ourselves or close our eyes to a looming catastrophe than to confront it, and nowhere is this instinct more gradually dangerous than with climate change. When extreme cold snaps or snowstorms hit, it can feel natural to dismiss global warming as a hoax, even if scientific evidence exists. Denial may…
Is your US visa approved? Those contemplating a visit to the US are likely to face this question more often. With the country tightening visa rules, nothing can be taken for granted.Even a routine US visa renewal can turn into a hassle that didn’t exist earlier. A small lapse or moment of carelessness can undo…
In public places across Japan, older floor-level toilets still appear with some regularity. They sit low to the ground, set into tiled floors, and look unfamiliar to many visitors. What often causes more confusion than the fixture itself is how it is meant to be used. People are expected to squat facing one specific direction,…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei subtly criticized social media entrepreneurs’ approach to AI development, contrasting it with scientists’ sense of responsibility. This comes as Meta’s AI pioneer Yann LeCun departed following disagreements with Mark Zuckerberg over research direction, particularly concerning world models versus large language models. LeCun’s exit and subsequent venture highlight a growing divergence in…
The five-day annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended on Friday, January 23. As many as 64 heads of state or government attended the event at Davos, Switzerland. The 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum convened nearly 3,000 leaders from government, business, civil society and academia under the theme “A Spirit…
