US-Israel War on Iran

IF Israel-Iran ceasefire holds and the US President Trump, after his attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, decides that enough is enough, we might just see a glimmer of hope in the Israel-Iran war. The genocide in Gaza though continues, with its two million Palestinians offered only the choice of a quick death at the hands of Israeli forces, or a slow death by starvation. The Gaza holocaust is live on our screens every day.

Tragic Air Crash in Ahmedabad

AIR India’s Boeing 787-8 ‘Dreamliner’ flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to Gatwick Airport in London tragically crashed almost immediately after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. All 10 crew and 232 passengers on board died, except one passenger who miraculously survived and walked away from the crash. Even more tragically, the doomed aircraft crashed into a medical college hostel mess and residential quarters.

Trump’s War on Academia: A Threat to Research and Education in the US

THE Trump administration has started an unprecedented attack on American higher education. Using federal funds as a tool to seize control of universities and throttle academic freedom, a momentous shift in the US education and research landscape has been created. Mass grant cancellations, vicious budget cuts, and open political meddling in scientific work have been used in this attack. This has raised alarm amongst scientists and activists that there will be a wholesale dismantling of core research projects.

Air Chief’s Diatribe Wholly Misplaced

CHIEF of Air Staff (CoAS) Air Chief Marshall A P Singh, just last week, repeated his concerns about lack of timely deliveries of military equipment, and what he termed the “futility” of contracts without on-time delivery adversely affecting defence preparedness. CoAS was reiterating a favourite refrain over the past year, mostly targeting Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the prime manufacturer and supplier of military aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Silicon Curtain: How US Sanctions Are Forging China's Tech Sovereignty

IN a bold challenge to US tech supremacy, Huawei has unveiled its most ambitious AI computing platform yet: the CloudMatrix 384, a high-performance AI training cluster based on its homegrown Ascend 910C chips. The platform is built to train large-scale AI models like those behind ChatGPT or Deepseek, which require enormous computing capacity.

Revisiting Soviet Era Science on Hypoxia

LOW oxygen levels (Hypoxia) can be a problem but surprisingly also beneficial at times. New medical research has revealed that antibiotics, essential to combat bacterial infections, can inadvertently promote potentially lethal fungal overgrowth in the gut due to low oxygen levels. This also highlights the influence of the molecular environment on drug action. Antibiotics disrupt the gut's delicate microbial balance, leading to low oxygen levels and promoting the expansion of disease-causing fungi like Candida albicans.

Excess Deaths for 2021: Six Times Higher than Official COVID Figures

IN the aftermath of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic – India finally confronts a harsh reality: the true toll of the pandemic was far greater than official counts ever recognised. Government figures now confirm what public health officials, data journalists, and international agencies had been warning all along – that COVID related deaths were greatly underestimated.India witnessed more than 21.5 lakh excess deaths in 2021 – nearly six times the official 2021 COVID-19 death toll of 3.3 lakh, according to a recent analysis published by The Hindu.

Trump Tariffs, Chinese Dark Factories and Make in India

THE Trump administration has launched an all-out trade war to isolate China and bring manufacturing, hollowed out through decades of outsourcing, and its associated jobs back to the US. While the Trump Tariffs and tantrums hog the headlines, China has quietly gone about implementing its long-term vision to transform its manufacturing sector and economy. Few narratives encapsulate global economic shifts like the story of China’s rapid automation revolution.

India’s Green Credit Rules and Carbon Conundrum

THE Government of India, in the last quarter of 2023, framed some controversial regulations called Green Credit Rules (GCR) under the Environment Protection Act (EPA) of 1986. Undoubtedly, at first glance, it appears to be a good initiative targeting crediting individuals or institutions imparting plantation activities across the country. The Government of India espouses these "climate positive actions" as part of its international commitment towards maintaining a clean atmosphere. The union government believes that, with the introduction of GCR, plantation activities will get a push.

Maritime Emissions Agreement: A Big Deal

TWO sectors, namely international aviation and international shipping, each representing around 3 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have remained outside the purview of international negotiations and treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC, as well as negotiations and emissions control regimes under it, regulate actions by government parties as the only entities that can be held accountable under international treaties.

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