Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to New Delhi on September 12 and 13 for the 18th BRICS Summit—his first visit to India in seven years. Beijing confirmed the trip on Thursday. There’s a lot riding on this, since India and China have spent years trying to patch up their relationship after a long stretch of border tensions. Trade issues, investment restrictions, and the bigger question of how to smooth things over will be front and center. Details about the visit Xi’s making the trip at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation, and the summit will stretch over two days in…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres plans to use his speech at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi to push for a fairer global system and real changes to big international organizations, including the UN Security Council. He’s landing in Delhi on Thursday, just before the summit kicks off on September 12 and 13. In his address, Guterres will highlight that today’s world is full of competing powers, and the old ways of running things just don’t cut it anymore. We need smarter, more inclusive ways to govern. His main point? The world’s shifting toward multipolarity, and that means our international…

On Wednesday, Congress accused more than 3,260 “fake” registered, unrecognised political parties (RUPPs) of siphoning off over Rs 10,000 crore in black money. They called it one of the biggest tax scams in India and demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigation. At a press conference in Delhi, senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil explained how the whole thing worked. He said these parties take advantage of Sections 80GGC and 80GGB of the Income Tax Act, which let individuals and companies claim full tax deductions for donations to political parties. Here’s how they say the alleged scam played out: Donors gave…

AI music startup Suno has replaced its entire previous model lineup with a new “v6” family of systems trained exclusively on licensed music from Warner Music Group (WMG), BMG and distributor Believe, as multiple copyright lawsuits continue to mount against the company. The move marks a strategic pivot toward licensed training data while legal battles with Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music and other rights holders remain unresolved. New v6 models and rollout Suno announced three new models on Wednesday: Suno v6: A polished, “reliable and steerable” base model for paying Pro and Premier subscribers. Suno v6‑wild: An experimental variant…

A researcher at AI safety-focused firm Anthropic has resigned, accusing the company and rival OpenAI of recklessly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while a senior colleague publicly estimated a greater-than-10% chance that advanced AI could eliminate all humans within the decade. Who resigned, and why Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent the past three years working on pretraining AI models at both OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying neither company is “acting responsibly.” In posts on X, Coxon wrote: “They are racing straight to self-improving super-intelligence and gambling with our lives.” He framed his exit as a refusal…

An interstellar comet passing through our solar system has been found to contain far more carbon dioxide than typical comets from our own cosmic neighborhood, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into the chemistry of a distant star system. The object, designated 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected. Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and other major observatories confirm that it releases significantly more carbon dioxide relative to water than comets born around the Sun, marking it as a chemical outsider. A Chemical Outsider Webb’s spectroscopic data revealed that 3I/ATLAS’s gas emissions are dominated by carbon…

Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday became the first private-sector corporate in India to raise funds through tokenised bonds, issuing ₹500 crore worth of three-year securities under the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) new blockchain-based framework. The landmark issuance marks a key step in India’s push to digitise its corporate bond market using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with settlement of funds done via a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) wallet. What the deal entails L&T raised ₹500 crore via tokenised bonds with a three-year tenure. The issue was executed under SEBI’s newly introduced blockchain-based tokenisation framework for…

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that an unreleased artificial intelligence model produced a proof resolving the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in mathematics. The company said roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents, running on a model described as “significantly more capable” than GPT-6 Astra, arrived at the result in about 88 hours at a cost of millions of dollars in computing resources. The 165-page proof, formally verified in the Lean proof language, claims to show that a three-dimensional fluid starting smooth and at rest can develop a singularity—a point where velocity grows without bound—in finite…

An Amazon Air Boeing 767 cargo plane ran off the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, crashing into vehicles past the airfield and catching fire. Five people died and five more were hurt. All those killed had been riding in a van shuttling a cleaning crew around the airport. Of the injured, two are still in critical condition and another is stable. The National Transportation Safety Board is now leading an extensive investigation. The incident immediately threw Miami’s airport into chaos, with hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled over the past couple of days. So what exactly happened?…

For the first time ever, more Indians are buying cars that run on alternative fuels—CNG, hybrids, and electric vehicles—than traditional petrol-powered models. That’s a major shake-up for the country’s auto market. August 2026 will go down as a milestone. Data from the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) shows that alternative-fuel cars made up almost 42% of passenger vehicle sales that month, nudging past petrol’s share of just under 41%. The gap is especially notable when you consider that, just a year earlier, petrol was ahead by almost 11 points. Now, that lead is gone. Most of the action is…