A striking contradiction is emerging in East Asia. As Japan expands its defence partnerships, strengthens its military capabilities and deepens cooperation with countries across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, China is increasingly portraying
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In mid-2023, an experiment within OpenAI’s “RLSlow” research project produced results that changed the way its researchers viewed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, recalls that he and
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At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, humanoid machines jumped, boxed and danced before cheering spectators. Some fleet-footed robots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 metres. Their increasingly
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On August 27, 2026, the Balochistan Government announced bounties, ranging from 1 million to 1.5 million rupees, on nine Baloch women, for their alleged linkages to Fitna al Hindustan (A state term for Baloch
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The year 1874 marks a silent turning point in India’s freedom struggle—not through political uprisings, but through cultural awakening. While historians often trace organised nationalism to the founding of the Congress in
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Tweeting from his prison cell, Pakistan’s cricketing hero and former prime minister Imran Khan described the country’s de facto leader, Field Marshal Asim Munir, as a mentally unstable, cruel dictator driven by
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What Happened? The aviation landscape is defined by the unrelenting pursuit of safety, a discipline where the margin for error is razor-thin and the consequences of failure are measured in human lives.
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On August 10, 2026, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) of Meghalaya Police arrested two alleged drug traffickers and recovered 32.64 grams of heroin during two intelligence-based operations at Umiam in Ri-Bhoi District,
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On September 5, 2026, a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh, convicted 10 surviving cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including three women, for their
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Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breathtaking pace. Countries and companies are racing to build more powerful models and push the boundaries of what machines can do. But for much of the
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