With urban local body and panchayat elections drawing closer, Rajasthan’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is finally moving to address a significant governance gap — more than 50 key positions left vacant across the state’s boards, corporations, commissions, academies and statutory…
Google DeepMind Haemorrhages Talent as AI Startups Outbid Big Tech for Top Researchers Alphabet’s Google DeepMind is facing a deepening talent crisis, losing several of its most prominent researchers to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in rapid succession — exits that…
Karnataka’s Welfare Audit: Congress Bets on Fiscal Credibility at Political Cost The Karnataka government has launched a sweeping reverification of beneficiaries under its flagship guarantee schemes — a move that could shore up state finances but risks fracturing the political…
Iran’s Pezeshkian Rules Out Missile Programme in US Nuclear Deal, Calls Arsenal Essential to National Survival Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared on Tuesday in Islamabad that Tehran’s missile programme is entirely excluded from the recently concluded 14-point memorandum of understanding…
Burnham Enters Parliament With Pub Relief Pledge Andy Burnham, newly sworn in as MP for Makerfield on Monday, has moved quickly to distinguish himself as a potential Labour leader, pledging to cut employers’ National Insurance contributions and reduce business rates…
Google Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Defects to OpenAI Ahead of IPO Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on Wednesday he is leaving the tech giant to join OpenAI — the…
India’s Top Retail Brokers Win Gift City Licences to Offer US Stock Trading Four of India’s largest retail brokerages — Groww, Zerodha, Angel One, and Upstox — have secured regulatory licences from the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to…
Foreign Fund Outflows Push India’s Balance of Payments into Deficit Despite Current Account Surplus India’s balance of payments (BOP) swung to a deficit of $6.6 billion in April 2026, reversing a surplus of $0.5 billion recorded in April 2025, as…
India Moves to Bar Labour Law Violators From Government Contracts India’s Department of Expenditure (DoE) has issued a directive that could ban firms from government procurement if they repeatedly default on wage obligations to workers, marking a significant tightening of…
Trump’s Tarmac Remarks Prompt Mental Acuity Questions From Political Commentators A brief exchange between President Donald Trump and reporters on Monday night, following Game 3 of the NBA Finals, has drawn scrutiny from political analysts questioning the president’s cognitive sharpness…
