Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

The war in Ukraine got to a pretty dangerous level on May 29, 2026, when a Russian drone, as reports, went off its path and ended up crashing into a residential apartment building in Galai, Romania, injuring some civilians and setting a fire. Authorities are still investigating the facts of the episode, but it is already clear that it puts NATO and European policymakers in a very difficult position. Romania is a NATO member, and a military object coming into its territory from an active conflict zone has a lot of implications that go far beyond the local damage. For…

Late May 2026 hit Great Britain with heat nobody expected, especially in a country where people mostly worry about staying warm, not cool. On May 26 and 27, London saw spring temperatures soar to an eye-popping 35.1°C. Nighttime heat records tumbled for three days straight. Suddenly, climate talk isn’t some background noise, it’s all anyone’s talking about, making headlines across the country. Then, right as people reached for fans and frozen peas, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) dropped a report that spelled it out: Britain’s homes were made for a climate that just doesn’t exist anymore. The CCC didn’t pull…

India’s digital scene is teetering on the edge of something pretty big, and honestly, pretty alarming. With the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology getting ready to roll out the Draft IT Second Amendment Rules, 2026, the free, messy, and democratic world of online expression is about to get reined in, hard. The rules, revealed at the end of March, threaten to shut down the “influencer grey zone” for good by roping regular folks into regulations meant for professional news outlets. If these changes go through, Rules 14-16 will blur the line between what citizens say online and what journalists…

A shepherd recruitment campaign in northern China has become a viral sensation, drawing over 700 candidates and billions of views on the North China grasslands near the Gobi Desert, and has sparked a national conversation about growing economic anxiety and, possibly, white-collar exhaustion. Originally posted as a simple recruitment notice for two sheep-herding positions, an invitation to work in “the isolation and extreme cold” of the Far North in Inner Mongolia attracted a thousand candidates in less than a month, more than you could imagine. The positions were to manage thousands of sheep on a farm spanning more than 2,000…

World markets rallied on speculation that the United States and Iran are on the verge of signing a short 14-point memorandum of understanding to extend the current ceasefire and re-open the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital energy shipping lanes. The new framework, reportedly brokered through intermediaries in Doha, triggered a move on commodities and equities. Brent crude prices fell by almost 7%, while the sensex and nifty, Indian benchmark indices, fell sharply late in the session as investors anticipated a rollback of geopolitical tensions in the Gulf. Sources say the one-page draft, which the two countries…

New Delhi: Education is never static. It is a concept that changes with society, culture and politics and the emotional maturity of every new generation who will be the adopters of knowledge. Looking at the above, the Supreme Court’s decision to constitute a high-level committee to examine the use of cartoons and satirical illustrations in NCERT textbooks, shouldn’t be understood as a move to censor; rather it should be considered as a responsible exercise. This decision was taken after the apprehensions, on the part of the Solicitor General, that political and institutional satire in school textbooks may have an unintended…

On May 21, 2026, mitigate against a global tech supply chain disaster as the nearly 47,000 (40%) Samsung Electronics workforce in South Korea are step away from an 18-day strike. This wasn’t a localized labor dispute, but rather a direct threat to the global AI infrastructure. Samsung holds 36% of the global DRAM market and is the global leader in high-bandwidth memory (HBM). A strike would have bottlenecked the AI hardware boom, but thanks to an 11th-hour radical settlement we now know as the era of stock-peace, this will not happen. Here is how Samsung’s deal changes employee pay for…

At first glance the latest quarter’s earnings for ITC Limited are downright disastrous. A stark 74% fall in standalone net profit for Q4FY26 is the kind of headline number that will cling to news feeds, make investors nervous and prompt speculation that there are deeper, structural weaknesses at play. The company’s standalone net profit for Q4FY26 was a mere ₹5,113 crore, versus ₹19,562 crore for the same period last year. It seems to be one of the biggest earnings collapse among the country’s big conglomerates this season. But numbers, which are often the closest thing to truth in corporate finance,…

The number is almost too large to process: $58.3 billion. Not dealt in annual revenue. Not an experiment with a decade-lived investment fund. A single quarter’s profit from a single company, Nvidia, powered by the charged global rush to rule artificial intelligence. For months, we have since been buried under breathless rhetoric from the endlessly excited about AI re-decoding human society. Much of it sounded like marketing copy pretending to be prophetic. But nontheless, profit margins this huge have made it impossible to miss in all of it. Women of this magnitude are not marketing; they are proof. They are…

For many years, India’s Eurasian grand strategy depended on one key assumption: that Russia, even in all its idiosyncratic guile and barbarity, was ultimately autonomous. That Russia was not just a defence partner but a continental counterbalance to preemption by China. That assumption is starting to crack. Sanctions imposed by Western powers serve to isolate Russia’s economy, but they also are tightening the Kremlin’s financial flexibility. This is turning Moscow’s pivot to Beijing from tactical diplomacy to structural dependency, for better or worse. The consequences for New Delhi are staggering. A Russia bound to Beijing economically erodes New Delhi’s strategic…