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Wedded to the Dynasty
Wedded to the Dynasty
6 min read
Sonia Gandhi’s memoir identifies the preservation of the Gandhi family’s political legacy as her primary duty and the RSS-BJP as the main obstacle to achieving that goal
The Lame Duck Who Won’t Act Like One
8 min read
The last two years of the Trump presidency could be more unpredictable than the first two as he battles a hostile Congress after the Republican midterm disaster and tries to secure his legacy at home ...
Ten Firsts That Broke the Old Boys’ Club
1 min read
Catastrophic Effect: The subversive humanity of the new Booker winner
3 min read
The Honey Trap and the Hard Drive
4 min read
The Nvidia affair bites because safeguards are written into models. They are not so easily written into people. Espionage in the age of AI will be automated at the point of collection. But recruitment ...
India vs New Zealand, 4th ODI: From 0/3 to 89 All Out, India’s Worst ODI Defeat Against New Zealand
3 min read
Matt Henry removed Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer for ducks in the first over at Bay Oval on November 13. India lost by 244 runs, one short of their heaviest defeat in men’s ODIs
Microsoft Outlook Outage Hits 16 Hours. Why Didn’t the Fix Hold?
4 min read
The global outage began during the US workday on November 12 and was still disrupting Outlook on Friday morning in India. Some services came back as Microsoft redirected traffic, but the recovery didn ...
MHA Extends Ban on Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation by Five Years
2 min read
The Ministry of Home Affairs has renewed the organisation’s designation as an unlawful association under the UAPA, citing concerns over national security, communal harmony and its alleged activities
Dropped on 5, Unstoppable at 125: Meet Will Young, New Zealand’s Permanent Replacement
8 min read
At 33, William Alexander Young remains one of international cricket’s strangest success stories: a former New Zealand Under-19 captain who waited eight years after his first-class debut to play a Test ...