Both India and China are big consumers of oil from the Middle East. (AI image) Is India the most vulnerable to prolonged oil supply shocks in wake of the ongoing Middle East tensions post Israel-US strikes on Iran and the latter’s retaliation? India, a fast-growing oil consumer, is the country most vulnerable to crude supply...

In an advisory, the Directorate General of Shipping said it is closely monitoring the evolving maritime security situation in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman and adjoining sea areas. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least three Indian seafarers on board foreign-flagged vessels were killed and one was injured in...

2 min readNew DelhiMar 3, 2026 01:23 PM IST Modern warfare seems to be progressing briskly and in unprecedented ways. While the world is witnessing increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in warfare, Germany seems to be employing deep tech for espionage in innovative ways.  SWARM Robotics, a defence startup based in Kassel,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s YouTube channel has crossed the milestone of 30 million subscribers, further cementing his position as the most-followed world leader on the platform. The second-highest, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has a subscriber base that is only about one-fourth of Modi’s. The prime minister has more than seven times the number of...

PM Modi with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on 23 May 2016. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sharply criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for its silence over the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling it an ‘abdication’ rather than neutrality.In an opinion piece published in...

The scenes of thespian Sivaji Ganesan pulling a hand-rickshaw in the film Babu (1971) and actor Om Puri wading through knee-deep rainwater with the vehicle in the streets of Kolkata in The City of Joy (1992) testify to forms of labour once prevalent in the country, stripped entirely of human dignity. The present generation in...

2 min readMar 3, 2026 09:19 AM IST The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products, with the State Department saying it will switch to rival OpenAI, after President Donald Trump ordered government agencies to dump Anthropic’s technology, including its Claude platform. Trump on ⁠Friday...

Limited flight operations from parts of the Middle East to India resumed on Tuesday, even as widespread airspace disruptions continued across the region with the Iran-US conflict entering its fourth day. After mass cancellations over the weekend, select relief and scheduled services began operating under restricted conditions, offering partial relief to stranded passengers. IndiGo will...

US embassy in Riyadh. (Screenshot) Two drones struck the US embassy in Riyadh early Tuesday, triggering a small fire and causing minor damage to the building, Saudi authorities said, as Iran continued its wave of retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.In a statement, a spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said preliminary assessments confirmed that the...

Bru (ethnic group) people show their ID cards as they wait to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, at a special polling center set up about 170 Km away from Agartala. File Photo. | Photo Credit: PTI Preparations for by-election in Dharmanagar assembly constituency in north Tripura have begun expecting...