A year after US tariffs nearly paralysed Andhra Pradesh’s shrimp export industry, the sector is once again facing a potential shock from Washington. On September 15, 2026, the US House Rules Committee considered a legislation that would give President Donald Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on …

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy took to X to question the Centre’s decision to introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain UPI payments. Reddy argued that even if customers are not directly charged, the additional cost could eventually reach them through higher prices.  Increased MDR on merchant UPI transactions …

Six years after Brexit, there is a question of whether the United Kingdom can stay together with itself. The United Kingdom is a union of four states – England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. On September 14, the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s nationalist parties met in Cardiff, …

In India, 24.03 lakh financial-cyber-fraud complaints involving ₹22,495 crore were reported in 2025, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. India separately recorded 29.44 lakh cyber-security incidents during the year. In the US, the FBI received more than 10 lakh internet-crime complaints, with reported losses of $20.88 billion, in 2025. …

In the last two-three days, if you opened Instagram, you’d have suddenly seen people posting AI-generated 80s style images. A hairstyle that is from the 1980s, makeup, background, clothing, everything is changed in those images, to make it look like it is straight from that decade, including film grain and …

Yemeni Houthis’ captured of Perim Island on September 11, in the middle of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Perim sits between Yemen and Djibouti/Eritrea and is the main path connecting the Mediterranean sea with the Red Sea and subsequently the Arabian sea. This is more significant than just a territory changing …

India is hosting the BRICS summit at a particularly complicated moment in the global context. The grouping has grown substantially since its original five members, bringing together countries that account for a large share of the world’s population and economy, with Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates …

Wipro recently announced that the company’s new AI push created productivity that’s equivalent to about 20,000 employees. This means it’s AI initiatives cater to about 8% of its workforce. Now the company was careful to state that this does not mean it laid off or replaced 20,000 people and instead, …

Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to India this week for the BRICS summit in New Delhi, his first visit to the country in seven years. Since the Galwan clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in 2020, Indo-China relations have been gradually moving forward and today, the Chinese foreign ministry …

The Telangana Assembly witnessed another major confrontation between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BRS on Wednesday, with 22 BRS MLAs, including KTR and Harish Rao, being suspended for the remainder of the Monsoon Session. The immediate trigger was a series of protests and disputes that had been building over …

Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming to India this week, with his visit taking place just before the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. This is India’s fourth BRICS chairship and its first in-person summit since 2016. Putin will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 11, ahead of the BRICS …

AI and its surrounding world saw two different things this week at vastly different levels, one is an internet trend where people are making 1980s-style images of themselves using AI and the other is the resignation and an alarming tweet by Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who worked at OpenAI …