Category: Events

Chinese J-16 fighter Photo: VCG China’s J-16 fighter jets have gone head-to-head with Rafale fighters in simulated air combat in a historic first that gives the PLA Air Force a rare opportunity to train directly against the same fighter type operated by the Indian Air Force.The unprecedented encounter took place during the China-Egypt Eagles of...

NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday slammed Congress leader Pawan Khera for making “indecent comments” about him after he shared a video of himself swimming in Arunachal Pradesh.In a social media post on X, Rijiju reminded Khera that he has fought eight elections so far, while the Congress leader is a...

The Walt Disney Company is extending voluntary early retirement options to senior leadership across its corporate, entertainment and sports units as the entertainment giant intensifies its broader cost-reduction campaign. The initiative, officially called the Voluntary Early Retirement Offer (VERO), was detailed in an internal communication distributed by Disney senior executive vice president and chief people...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh has given the green light for the transfer of missile technology from the DRDO. NEW DELHI: In a big development to empower Indian private players with new missile technologies to achieve govt’s vision of self-reliance in defence production, defence minister Rajnath Singh has “approved the transfer of DRDO-developed technologies of all...

Will Venezuela, which has suddenly made its way to the list of India’s top crude suppliers be able to step up? The turmoil in global crude oil markets that began in March refuses to die down. Even as the US looks to tighten its noose on Iran with economic blows, a new bill empowering the...

Officials concluded that the attackers had combined conventional manual hacking with AI agents, including one reportedly called OpenClaw. Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a tool for cyberattacks, helping hackers automate tasks, move faster and coordinate complex operations.The result is a growing concern among cybersecurity experts: Has AI made it significantly easier to breach web systems?One...

Pralay missile test fired by the DRDO from Abdul Kalam Island in July 2025. (image credit: DRDO) NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh has approved the transfer of DRDO-developed technologies for all conventional missile systems to Indian defence companies for production within the country, in a move aimed at accelerating indigenous missile manufacturing and expanding...

Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul at Congress headquarters on Independence Day. NEW DELHI: Is the Congress trying to send out a subtle message signalling “soft minority appeasement”? Or has the party played to BJP’s strength by lapping up a controversy that may push it into a corner?The Congress’s decision to sing only two stanzas...

NEW DELHI: A war of words erupted between Congress MP Manish Tewari and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sambit Patra after the former warned that India could soon face a robot-driven Chinese Army on the Line of Actual Control.In a social media post on X, Tewari said that “impressive development of humanoid robots” by China should give...

Musk admits SpaceXAI has fallen behind Elon Musk waited until the ink was dry to tell Cursor what he actually wanted from it. On the day SpaceX confirmed it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup, Musk dialled into an all-hands video call and told more than 1,000 Cursor employees that...