US President Donald Trump is badly trapped between his campaign promises against war and the strategic quicksand he has walked into on February 28, 2026, joining Israeli attacks on Iran, killing its top leadership. As the escalated war enters Day 18, Trump has no good options, and his reaction will likely be driven by ego […]
A quiet but striking political shift is unfolding among the youngest voters in many democracies: men and women of Generation Z are moving in sharply different ideological directions. Several international surveys suggest the divide is widening. A recent global study by Ipsos, which surveyed more than 23,000 people across multiple countries, found that a significant […]
Bengaluru’s housing market is closely tied to the fortunes of the technology industry. Nearly 60–70 percent of homebuyers in many new projects come from IT or tech-linked sectors, according to industry estimates. With the oil shock shaking the metropolitan cities in India, here are three scenarios emerging in 2026: IT Sector Hiring Slowdown Over the […]
In a big relief for many US passport holders living overseas (including some Indians with dual ties or green card pasts), the US State Department has cut the fee to formally renounce American citizenship by about 80%. The cost drops from $2,350 (roughly ₹2 lakh) to just $450 (around ₹38,000 at current rates). This change […]
In 2009, a cemetery, located directly outside of Chicago, revealed a scandal. The employees at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois had been accused of digging up aged graves, shifting the remains to other places within the cemetery and selling the burial plots back. One such piece of evidence was a small knot of […]
A new international survey of 23,000 individuals shows that 31 percent of Gen Z men concur that a wife must always be submissive to her husband and that one third (33 percent) believes that a husband must have the final say when it comes to making significant decisions. Gen Z men (born 1997-2012) were twice […]
A new magnetorheological fluid-based soft robot created by the researchers includes reversible t robot with reversible gastrointestinal tract medical applications. Millions of people around the world are infected with gastrointestinal tract diseases and the conventional drug delivery system lacks high targeting capacity with chances of side effects of systemic drug delivery. The development of magnetic […]
This is another reason I love Japanese popular matcha: a mouse study states that the green tea powder might decrease the necessity to sneeze in persons with nasal allergies. Matcha is a clear green powder created by the dried and grounded leaves of green tea, which have been particularly grown. It is consumed as a […]
According to a report that cautions against the use of AI-powered talking toys on small children, the toys should be more strictly regulated and have new safety kitemarks, since they are not necessarily intended at children with the safety of their psychology in mind. The suggestion is found in the first report of AI in […]
The IEA is reacting to the effects of the conflict in the Middle East on the energy market. The Strait of Hormuz holds significant effects on the world economy and the energy security and affordability through the disruption of oil and gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz, and energy infrastructure in the region. The […]
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy jointly conducted four successful in-flight release trials of the indigenous Air Droppable Container ‘ADC-150’ from the P8I aircraft off the coast of Goa between February 21 to March 01, 2026, at different extreme release conditions. Indigenously designed and developed to deliver 150 kg payload, the […]
TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform’s Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its top charts. On both platforms, people’s preferences only partly explain what songs become hits. A new University of California, Davis, […]
From a smoke-stained guard tower in Baghdad to a backpack bomb in Oslo and gunshots at dawn in Toronto, Iran has increasingly turned the world’s diplomatic consulates into combat zones. The guard tower at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center had barely stopped smoking when the State Department alert went out Tuesday night. Six drones had […]
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright posted on X a little earlier today stating that the U.S Navy had escorted an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, which is strategically important, in order to effectively guarantee that oil continued to flow into the world markets. The post was removed soon and it caused some confusion […]
There is a test that powerful countries administer to everyone else every few decades. It is not announced formally. There is no letter, no ceremony, no official notice. The test arrives disguised as a trade policy. You discover you are being tested only by watching how you respond. Trump administered that test in 2025. The […]
Donald Trump has a Churchill problem. Not the kind he thinks. When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hesitated to open UK military bases for the Iran strikes last week, Trump was furious. Standing in the Oval Office beside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, he delivered his verdict on the special relationship in nine words: “This is […]
Escalating tensions involving Iran have unsettled global financial markets, with Indian equities and the rupee facing pressure as investors react to rising crude oil prices and geopolitical uncertainty in West Asia. Domestic benchmark indices slipped sharply in recent sessions as risk sentiment weakened. The BSE Sensex fell about 1,097 points, or 1.4 per cent, to […]
Thirty years he had been the most powerful man in Iran ever to be seen. No speeches. No sermons. No interviews. And, even as his father was roaring away in pulpits and making a name in the history of a nation, Mojtaba Khamenei was toiling in the shadows, pushing through corridors, whispering into the correct […]
H-1B Visa is both a golden ticket and a constant anxiety source to hundreds of thousands of Indians who study or work in the United States. It is the most common work visa in America but also happens to be one of the most disputed, most amended and most politically unstable immigration tools in the […]
India is keenly following up the investigation of the US Department of Homeland Security on H-1B and OPT programs which are major immigration programs through which Indian technology professionals and students access the country. Most H-1B visa are controlled by Indian nationals. According to the statistics of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, 70-75 percent […]