Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

President Droupadi Murmu has signed off on the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, so it’s now law. This happens just as India’s exam system is struggling to regain trust. Let’s face it, scandals like paper leaks, answer key fraud, impersonation, and digital tampering keep rocking competitive exams. Students and job seekers are anxious, and for good reason. This amended law casts a wider net. Now, it covers a longer list of offenses and brings top recruitment and testing bodies under its reach—think the Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board, and the National…

Samsung Electronics is sounding the alarm about a deepening global memory chip shortage. On Thursday, the company said it expects supply to get even tighter by 2027—and not let up in 2028. The reason? AI companies and data center operators keep demanding more memory chips than the industry can produce. Now, more AI firms are bypassing the usual channels and going straight to Samsung to lock in chips with multi-year deals. The shortage is making customers nervous enough that they’re racing to secure capacity years in advance. Samsung’s response? They’re expanding long-term contracts to give clients peace of mind (and…

Flipkart, owned by Walmart, is gearing up to jump into India’s online food delivery space in the next few weeks, squaring off with big players like Zomato and Swiggy. Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the group’s CEO, confirmed these plans on July 24. Flipkart won’t rush into it nationwide. They’ll start small, test things out, and get feedback before taking the plunge across more cities. The pilot should kick off in about a month. First, they’ll check if their offering really clicks with customers. They’ll use what they learn to tweak the service, then look to expand. Krishnamurthy put it simply: “We will…

Elon Musk thinks we’re heading into a time where artificial intelligence and robotics change everything—so much so that money just won’t matter the way it does now. In a chat with The Economist, Musk said that AI might outsmart all of humanity within just five years. He believes that smart machines will be able to make stuff so cheaply and at such a massive scale that the old rules of economics start to fall apart. Imagine a world he calls a “quasi-infinite economy,” powered by automation and advanced robotics. By 2036, Musk says, nobody’ll need to work for money. People…

Thousands of Hyundai Motor workers walked off the job this week. For three days, they mounted a partial strike after wage negotiations broke down, and the action is already drawing attention for more than just pay. Industry watchers say it’s one of the first big labor protests directly linked to Hyundai’s plans to roll out humanoid robots on their production lines. About 40,000 union members at Hyundai downed tools for part of their scheduled shifts, a rolling work stoppage that lasted through Wednesday. And pay isn’t their only concern. Union leaders want formal talks about how and when robots will…

On Friday in Shanghai, Chinese AI startup Moonshot pulled back the curtain on Kimi K3, calling it the world’s largest open-weight AI model. President Xi Jinping used the same day—at a big tech conference in Shanghai—to double down on China’s push to lead in artificial intelligence. The announcement sent shockwaves through the market. Investors bailed on Chinese tech and AI stocks, spooked that Kimi K3’s sheer size, open-access approach, and aggressive pricing might set off an even fiercer global race in generative AI. So, what’s Kimi K3? Moonshot says it’s a massive 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model built for some…

Thomson Reuters just struck a deal to sell 51% of its Global Print business to KKR, pulling in around $500 million. So, KKR gets the majority stake and Thomson Reuters keeps 49%, making the two companies partners in this joint venture. They announced the transaction on July 14, 2026, with the closing targeted for the fourth quarter, pending regulatory sign-off. And KKR doesn’t need to worry about financing—it’s all set. Here’s how it’ll work: the venture gets exclusive rights to distribute Thomson Reuters content in print and on ProView, their eBook platform. But Thomson Reuters still owns the intellectual property…

Jio just got a major green light for its ambitious satellite plan. India’s space regulators say the company’s pitch to set up around 1,600 low-Earth orbit satellites is “technically sound,” which means Jio is one step closer to rolling out a massive, homegrown LEO network—something that could shake up satellite internet in India and put real pressure on global players like Starlink. Three different agencies looked over Jio’s proposal: the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), ISRO, and the Department of Telecom’s Wireless Planning and Coordination wing. None of them—and not Jio either—had anything to say to the…

Uber is set to buy Delivery Hero, the German food-delivery company, in a $14.8 billion cash deal. This move will make Uber Eats a much bigger force across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America—pretty much everywhere Delivery Hero is popular. Uber’s offer comes out to €41.50 per Delivery Hero share, which values the whole business at that $14.8 billion mark. Since Uber already holds some shares, the actual transaction will cost them closer to $13.7 billion. They expect to wrap things up in the second half of 2027, as long as shareholders agree and regulators give a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch India’s first passenger train powered by hydrogen fuel cells at Jind railway station in Haryana on Friday, July 17. It’s a big step forward for Indian Railways as they move toward cleaner, greener transport. The train will start running on the 89-kilometer stretch between Jind and Sonipat, under the Northern Railway. Modi’s flag-off is scheduled for around 11 am and will be part of his broader visit to Haryana, Chandigarh, and Punjab. This hydrogen train isn’t imported or adapted from elsewhere—Indian engineers designed, built, and integrated it here as a pilot. The…