Indian women’s cricket star Smriti Mandhana has achieved another major milestone in her career, becoming the only Indian athlete to feature in TIME magazine’s inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential People in Sports. The recognition places the Indian vice-captain alongside some of the biggest names in global sport and highlights her growing impact both […]
A mysterious cooling zone in the Atlantic Ocean is raising questions among climate scientists about how global warming actually works. While nearly every ocean region on Earth has grown warmer over the past hundred years, one patch of the North Atlantic—nicknamed the “cold blob” by researchers—has actually become colder. This unusual reversal has puzzled scientists
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Nigeria’s telecom landscape just shifted in a way that affects millions of people who never read regulatory notices. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has stopped telecom operators from offering airtime loans — credit you borrow against your phone and pay back within days, usually at a cost. The decision has triggered a
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Twenty thousand crew members have been waiting in a kind of maritime limbo for months. Their ships sit stuck in the Persian Gulf, unable to move, unable to leave, unable to go home. The reason is geopolitical tension between two major powers that closed one of the world’s most important shipping routes—the Strait of Hormuz—leaving
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Signal’s co-founders are working on a new project that could transform how ordinary Indians protect their private conversations and documents online. They’re building something called Encrypted Spaces, a tool that promises to encrypt data stored in apps like Slack, Google Docs, and other services you use every day. Right now, when you type a message
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Indian electronics manufacturers are facing one of their biggest supply chain disruptions in recent months as a shipping crisis in the Gulf region creates a bottleneck for essential components. Microprocessors, batteries, and other critical parts that form the backbone of smartphone, laptop, and appliance production are arriving late and at higher costs, forcing companies to
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses arrived in Paris with the kind of promise that tech companies love to make: artificial intelligence that helps you see the world differently. For $799, you get smart glasses that translate languages in real time, identify landmarks as you walk past them, and answer questions about what you’re looking at. The
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The Centre has rejected a Bloomberg Economics analysis that suggested the Reserve Bank of India may have sold gold reserves to bolster the country’s foreign-currency assets. The Bloomberg Economics report estimated that the RBI likely sold around $12 billion worth of gold in the two weeks through May 22 while purchasing roughly $7.5 billion in
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For at least a decade, India’s domestic institutional investors largely stayed away from Rajesh Exports. Mutual funds, which held a peak stake of just 0.5% in March 2016, have since exited completely. Private insurance companies hold no meaningful exposure either. LIC took a different view. The state-owned insurer increased its stake more than fivefold, from
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India’s government has taken a controversial step to address severe shortages of two critical cancer drugs by approving price increases for cisplatin and carboplatin. The Centre granted in-principle approval using special powers under Para 19 of the Drugs Price Control Order, or DPCO. This move allows manufacturers to raise prices, with final numbers to be
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