Twenty crew members have been rescued, while three remain missing after a Thai cargo vessel was struck by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, Thailand’s Transport Ministry said on Wednesday.According to the ministry, the crew abandoned the vessel in a lifeboat after the incident and were later rescued by the Omani navy. Authorities said...
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Counting cost of Trump’s war on Iran: Is US fighting a billion-dollar-a-day conflict?
Representative AI image (Credit: Chat GPT) Missiles flying across the Middle Eastern skies and the roar of fighter jets over the Gulf are raising a pressing question in Washington: is Donald Trump’s war against Iran costing the United States billions in the name of victory?As Washington deepens its military campaign against Iran alongside Israel, policymakers...
Day after Anthropic sued the Trump admin, Google makes an announcement for Pentagon website
Google has recently announced new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for the US Department of War. This comes just a day after AI company Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, since it was designated as a supply chain risk. The move expands the tech major’s role in the Pentagon’s AI infrastructure and introduces new...
The Rearview Podcast | PC Mahalanobis: India’s First Data Cruncher
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972) was a Bengali statistician and institution-builder who became one of the most consequential figures in twentieth-century Indian science. Trained as a physicist in Calcutta and Cambridge, he discovered statistics almost by accident through an encounter with Biometrika, and went on to found the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931 out of a...
Japan announces release of strategic oil reserves as Middle East tensions push prices up
Japan will release part of its emergency oil reserves to stabilise energy supplies amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Reuters reported. The move will include the release of 15 days worth of oil held by the private sector and one month worth of state oil reserves as authorities attempt to ease supply concerns and...
‘A welcome step’: Opposition backs TMC’s move to bring impeachment motion against CEC
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-129456179,imgsize-111146,width-400,resizemode-4/untitled-design-14.jpg" alt="‘A welcome step’: Opposition backs TMC’s move to bring impeachment motion against CEC Gyanesh Kumar" title=" File photo: CEC Gyanesh Kumar ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo: CEC Gyanesh Kumar NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Wednesday voiced support for a proposal by the All India Trinamool Congress to move an impeachment motion against Chief...
Sam Altman, the AI tool you just spent billions on has been banned in China
Days after OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of viral AI agent framework OpenClaw, China has restricted state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers. According to a Bloomberg report, government agencies and state-owned enterprises, including the largest banks, have received notices warning them against installing OpenClaw software on office...
Kushboo Sundar reacts to controversy over Vijay-Trisha’s affair rumours amid Thalapathy’s divorce row: ‘Why make it a big deal?’
3 min readKochiMar 11, 2026 03:54 PM IST Amid the growing controversies surrounding actor-politician Vijay, which erupted after his wife, Sangeetha, filed for divorce alleging that the superstar is involved in an extramarital affair, renowned film star and BJP leader Kushboo Sundar has reacted to the row. Maintaining that it is a personal matter, Kushboo...
India prepares for its biggest headcount: What makes Census 2027 different
NEW DELHI: Counting every person in a country of more than 1.4 billion people is no easy task. India is now preparing to undertake one of the world’s largest enumeration exercises — the Census 2027.The nationwide headcount was originally scheduled for 2021, in line with India’s decadal census cycle conducted since 1881. However, the Covid-19...
‘Legitimate targets’: Iran warns US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia
Representational photo Iran on Wednesday warned American tech companies that their offices and infrastructure could become targets as the conflict in the region widens.The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency has published a list of offices and infrastructure run by major US technology companies that it claims are linked to Israel and used for military purposes.The report...

