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Home to around 520,000 people and famous for its sun-kissed atolls, the Maldives is said to be dizzyingly beautiful with underwater marine life that has complex kingdoms of corals scattered across its thousand-odd isles. The tourism website of this archipelagic country in South Asia proudly announces: ‘Swim with Whale Sharks During Your Local Island Stay…’ And swimming with sharks is what India seems to be doing at the moment.

Enthralled by the Presidency of G 20, India heralds the new global leadership in geo-political and economic dynamism. A decade and half ago, it was the focus was on poverty, draught , unemployment , red tape and volatile economy.

Not every Prime Minister is so candid and free on issues that roil the nation than Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has said that the disparaging remarks against the Sanatana Dharma by Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin calls for a “proper response”. Udhayanidhi, who is Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son, has called for the annihilation of the caste-ridden Sanatana Dharma.

New Delhi: World Championships bronze medalist Akash Kumar (57kg) defeated Wasim Abusal of Palestine to reach the finals of the 21st Mustafa Hajrulahovic Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

As India approaches closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, the entire political scenario in the country seems to be taken hostage by political sensationalism. PM Narendra Modi and the RSS-BJP clan are the chief players tickling the imagination and dreams of those highly communalised Hindus who have become hungry for the power of complete domination over other sections of the society. One Hindu sect has been set against the other Hindu sect – as we have recently seen in Swaminarayan-Hanuman controversy in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, the state known for decades for Hindu-Muslim communal riots.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is only a few steps away from finally accomplishing his much-cherished mission of retrieving India’s past glory as ‘Akhand Bharat’. Recently, Bhagwat reiterated that ‘Akhand Bharat’ or undivided India would become a reality before today's youngsters become old, as those who separated from India in 1947 are now feeling that they made a mistake. This clearly underlines his obsession for identifying India as Bharat and his dislike for the word India.

Liberal bourgeois writers tend to explain the problems that arise under capitalism not by the immanent tendencies of the system but by the capriciousness of particular governments. This way they can continue to believe in their own false theories that prettify capitalism, while putting the blame for the travails it generates on political bloody-mindedness. One such instance of prettification is the portrayal of the system as one where international trade is beneficial for all. Centuries of colonialism which played havoc with the economies of the conquered countries, causing poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment, by forcing an exploitative trade relation upon them, should have left no scope for such prettification, but colonialism alas never figures in bourgeois economics.

The chip wars between the US and China show no sign of abating as the US tries to stop the flow of advanced chips – sub 7 nm chips, graphical processor units (GPUs), 5G chipsets – and the lithographic machines that manufacture such chips. The US had started with sanctions that made it impossible for Huawei to manufacture its top-of-the-range processors at the heart of the 5G mobile phones. The US had then progressively widened the sanctions to advanced chip manufacturing lithographic machines and high-end computing processors, the GPUs from Nvidia. These GPUs power the new generative artificial intelligence (AI) thrust and the large language models like ChatGPT. Nvidia has emerged as the global heavyweight in the electronics manufacturing sector with its GPUs, a market capitalisation of 1.2 trillion dollars, and the world's 6th largest company by market cap.

New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA), unveiled the uniquely designed ceremonial dress includes a khaki textured saree for women and khaki kurta for the male players for the national contingent that will compete at the Asian Games scheduled in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8.

Saudi Arabia and Russia have surprised global oil markets by extending their voluntary production cuts until the end of the year, sending crude prices to 10-month highs, something that was least expected.