In this screengrab from a video posted on April 18, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation. (@NarendraModi/YT via PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday wrote to the Election Commission (ECI), seeking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his address...
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Elon Musk’s 4-word warning to Europe as birth rates predicted to hit record low
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued a blunt warning to European leaders and people following a report that predicts a massive population collapse across the region. Responding to data showed in a report by The Guardian, that the European Union’s population could shrink by 53 million people by the end of the century, Musk posted...
‘Who is he to deny’: Iranian president hits out at Trump over nuclear rights claim
Pezeshkian Iran president Masoud Pezeshkian, on Sunday, questioned the United States’ authority to limit Iran’s nuclear programme, asking what legal basis Washington had for such demands.Reuters, citing the Iranian Student News Agency, reported that Pezeshkian said the US had no valid justification to deny Iran access to its own technology.Speaking publicly, Pezeshkian directly criticised US...
Slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yet to be buried. Are Iranian officials too ‘afraid’ to do so?
Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei The burial of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei remains unresolved more than a month after his death, as Iranian officials continue to assess security risks around holding a large public funeral.Khamenei, 86, was killed in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on February 28, an attack that escalated into a...
Godfather of AI ‘reveals’ biggest problem with Anthropic not releasing Mythos to public
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has raised concerns about the restricted release of Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Mythos. Bengio, known for his contributions to deep learning and one of the Godfathers of AI, has argued that the core issue lies in the concentration of decision-making power within a single private company. He said that...
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu to engineers on how to survive in AI era
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu As artificial intelligence reshapes the technology landscape, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has now offered some candid advice to the software engineers on how they can survive and thrive in the AI-driven era. In a recent post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Vembu stressed that while programming...
When Palantir CEO says working at billion dollar company better than degree from Harvard
Alex Karp made a strong statement during a 2025 earnings call, saying that working at Palantir is more valuable than holding a degree from top universities like Harvard, Princeton or Yale. Speaking during the earnings call then, Karp said that someone joins Palantir, their educational background becomes largely irrelevant. “If you did not go to...
‘No force can reopen it’: Houthis threaten Bab al-Mandeb closure after Iran shuts Hormuz
‘No force can reopen it’: Houthis threaten Bab al-Mandeb closure after Iran shuts Hormuz Yemen’s Houthi administration has warned that the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait could be shut if US President Donald Trump and what it called the “complicit world” do not end “all practices and policies that obstruct peace,” as tensions escalate around multiple...
‘Bihu going global’: US astronaut performs Assamese dance aboard ISS; Himanta shares video
Screenshot from the video shared by Himanta Biswa Sarma NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday shared a video showing an astronaut Mike Fincke performing Bihu, a traditional folk dance from Assam, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).Sarma thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving “special focus” to the dance form and...
Two Indians shot dead outside Italy gurdwara during Vaisakhi gathering
Representative image Two Indian men were shot dead in Covo in Italy’s Bergamo province just as they were leaving a warehouse used as a place of worship during a gathering for the Vaisakhi festival, local media reported on Sunday.The incident took place on Friday, a few minutes before midnight, in the square outside the Gurdwara...
