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US-Canada Trade War: How Trump’s Tariffs Open a Bigger Battle With China
US-Canada Trade War: How Trump’s Tariffs Open a Bigger Battle With China
5 min read
The collapse of US-Canada trade negotiations is about more than tariffs. As Washington pressures allies over their relationships with China, middle powers such as Canada, India and Brazil must decide ...
Wandhama Massacre Reopened: Can 1998 Kashmiri Pandit Killings and Other Old Cases Still Stand Up in Court?
10 min read
The J&K State Investigation Agency is revisiting the Wandhama massacre and the killings of Tika Lal Taploo, Neelkanth Ganjoo and Sarwanand Koul Premi. A chargesheet in Sarla Bhat’s murder shows a cold ...
When Donkey Milk is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
6 min read
After rejecting a proposed 51% acquisition, founder Suhas B Shetty is taking the bootstrapped Iceberg national with a ₹100-crore revenue target
Devil's Trumpet was just a click away: How datura triggered Karnataka's crackdown on Amazon, Instamart, BigBasket
3 min read
The plant has been linked to mythology, medicine, hallucinations and poisonings for centuries. Now it has triggered one of the biggest food-safety crackdowns on India's online grocery platforms. The b ...
Cars Turns 20: How Pixar’s Film About Slowing Down Became an Unstoppable Machine
8 min read
Lightning McQueen races back into theatres on September 4, two decades after Pixar turned a fading Route 66 town into a children’s favourite, a merchandising juggernaut and a surprisingly poignant sto ...
SpaceX-Nvidia Orbital AI Supercomputer: Can Elon Musk Really Put a Data Centre in Space?
9 min read
SpaceX plans to launch its first Starmind AI satellite with Nvidia’s Vera Rubin architecture in late 2027. Unlimited sunlight and computing closer to satellites sound irresistible, but heat, radiation ...
Syria Off US Terror List After 47 Years: How Ahmed al-Sharaa Went From $10 Million Bounty to Washington’s Big Bet
9 min read
The United States first blacklisted Syria under Hafez al-Assad in 1979 and kept it there through Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule. It has now removed the designation under a president who once led al-Qae ...
From School Shoes at Weddings to ₹1 Lakh Mithai Boxes: How Gaurav Chauhan Built Luxury Brand Gur Chini
10 min read
He ran away to Delhi after Class 12, delivered tiffins, waited tables for ₹150 a day and borrowed money for onions. Then a ₹65,000 pair of Louis Vuitton shoes inspired Gur Chini, the luxury-mithai bra ...
A son on a cliff, desperate parents and a devastating end: What police say happened in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
3 min read
What began as an apparent family dispute ended in a devastating sequence of events on a hilltop in Maharashtra. As investigators piece together the final hours of an 18-year-old and his parents, the t ...