Putin's Party Wins Supermajority: What It Means
Russia's United Russia party secured a record 355 seats in the State Duma on September 21, 2026, winning a supermajority in a tightly controlled election held as Ukraine launched…
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Greenland Deal: What Did the US Actually Secure?
The United States, Denmark, and Greenland reached an agreement on September 18, 2026, granting Washington permanent security rights over Greenland and prohibiting adversary…
When AI Researchers Start Quitting: A Warning We Cannot Ignore
On September 15, 2026, Bilal Chughtai — a safety researcher at Google DeepMind who worked on AGI alignment — resigned and published a public statement warning that artificial…
BRICS Summit 2026: New Delhi Declaration Explained
The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, 2026, concluded with the unanimous adoption of the 140-point New Delhi Declaration — the longest BRICS leaders'…
AI Slowdown Call by Top Tech Titans Creates New Bind for India
A call by Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and backed by top-tier tech titans like Elon Musk and Sam Altman for a more deliberate approach to the development of…
The Government's Own Directive Excluded Sporting Events. The BCCI Played It Anyway. Who Ordered the Extension?
4 Minutes and 2 Seconds Before a Cricket Match Before the first ball was bowled at the India–Afghanistan 1st T20I at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday evening, both…
Tennis Players Get 15% of Revenue. NBA Players Get 50%. The Sport That Looks Richest Pays Worst.
The $23 Cocktail and the Player Who Can't Afford Dinner The 2026 US Open is underway at Flushing Meadows. The average ticket costs over $500 . The signature cocktail — the Honey…
5.6 Trillion Cubic Feet. 30 Km From Syria. Sitting on Iran's 'Land Bridge.' The Gas Field That Three Superpowers Are Fighting Over.
The Most Geopolitically Important Gas Field You've Never Heard Of Sharing its eastern border with Iran, its northern border with Turkey, its western border with Syria and Jordan,…
Delhi Doesn't Need New Building Rules. It Needs to Enforce the Ones Already on the Books.
The Worst Trait The Satya Niketan building collapse — which has killed several students living in a Paying Guest accommodation near Delhi University's South Campus has brought up…
Six Students Dead. Building Was 50 Years Old. Basement Work Was Underway. And Delhi Has 28,000 More Buildings Just Like It.
1:30 PM, Sunday At approximately 1:30 PM on Sunday, September 7, 2026 , a five-storey building in Satya Niketan — a congested residential neighbourhood adjacent to Delhi…
The Person With the Cheapest Phone in the Poorest District' India's Digital Rights Test, Pitched to the World in Samarkand
The Test India Set for Itself At the 12th Inter-Parliamentary Union Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Samarkand, Uzbekistan — held September 4–6 — BJP MP Raghav…
Zuckerberg Apologised to India. Again. The Second Time in 18 Months. What India's Leverage Over Meta Actually Looks Like.
The Apology — All Three of Them On Tuesday, August 5, 2026 , Meta executives met Indian government officials and conveyed an apology from CEO Mark Zuckerberg covering three…