Today we are celebrating Buddha. Streets are adorned with lotus lanterns, incense spirals skyward in serpentine trails, and chants echo through temple halls with a rhythm as old as memory. Vesak—the sacred
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India’s recent actions concerning the Indus River Treaty have drawn sharp attention to a tactic as old as warfare itself: using water as a weapon. As reported by The Times UK, Indian
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Graham King, the Essex-born founder of migrant-housing giant Clearsprings Ready Homes, has officially joined the ranks of Britain’s billionaires as the number of asylum seekers entering the UK—and the costs of housing
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Cases of Sim-swap fraud—a cybercrime method where hackers hijack mobile phone numbers to gain control of victims’ digital lives—have soared more than tenfold in the past year, according to data from the
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Beef prices in the United States have surged to unprecedented levels, driven by the country’s lowest cattle inventory in over 70 years, according to a recent report by the Financial Times. A
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Insurers at Lloyd’s of London have unveiled a new insurance product designed to protect companies from financial losses caused by faulty artificial intelligence tools, including chatbot failures — a move reported by
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OpenAI and Microsoft are engaged in complex negotiations to redefine the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership — a critical step that could clear the way for the ChatGPT creator to restructure into
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Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, has slashed its quarterly dividend by $10 billion after posting a drop in first-quarter profits — a move that could ripple across Saudi Arabia’s ambitious
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Nepal will host a symbolic funeral next week for the Yala glacier, a once-thriving Himalayan ice mass now in terminal decline due to climate change — an event that scientists say underscores
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An overcrowded bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims plummeted into a precipice in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 21 and injuring 24, a senior transport official said. The island nation’s
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When twenty-six innocent tourists were killed by terrorists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—after the perpetrators identified the victims as followers of the Hindu religion—the whole of India felt deep sorrow. The one
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The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for June 9 on a fundamental rights petition filed by Dr. Selladurei Ramesh Kumara and Nadee Achala Diwaka Don Hettige, seeking an interim order to
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For the first time in its 116-year history, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) is set to be led by a woman — with Dame Barbara Woodward, Britain’s ambassador to the United
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Big Tech has replaced capitalism’s twin pillars – markets and profit – with its platforms and rents. ~ Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism The Spectres of Capital The world we inhabit today
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One of the saddest things about India’s lurch toward transforming as a national security state through the past decade since our late ‘peacenik prime minister’ Manmohan Singh handed over power has been
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