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WASHINGTON: Donald Trump wants to take over the 2026 elections, though “steal” might be a better word. No, the president isn’t planning to send another 1,600 invaders—Proud Boys and other assorted thugs—to rampage through the U.S. Capitol, as they did five years ago in an attempted coup. Nor is he asking secretaries of state to “find” ballots for him this time around.

For generations of investors across Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the "Golden Rule" of wealth has been simple: when the world trembles, buy gold. But this week, that age-old wisdom faced a brutal reckoning. In a historic "two-front" market shock, the twin pillars of modern portfolios—high-growth software stocks and "safe-haven" precious metals—crumbled simultaneously, erasing hundreds of billions in value.

Balochistan is on the boil. As gun battles and bomb attacks hit Balochistan province of Pakistan, the Sharief Government as also the Pak military which are the real rulers , are in bind. Day after day, their loss of control over the big province is getting evident to the people of the country.

Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the military junta backed party won the Myanmar elections in what is widely perceived to be a "sham victory.' Pointers of democratic irregularity do not make the three phase elections be free and fair poll process. This is the first election after the military junta came to power by a coup in 2021. After the coup, the junta ruled the country after declaring a state of emergency.

President Donald Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh, as the next chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the country’s centre bank, from May when the term of the present chair, Jerome Powell, ends.

WASHINGTON: There's a delicious irony in watching a sitting president sue the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion while his own Treasury Secretary simultaneously runs the agency. Welcome to the Trump administration's latest exercise in what might be called "government as performance art"—or perhaps more accurately, "government as shakedown."

Digital infrastructure is the spine of modern innovation – from the clouds that fuel e-commerce and artificial intelligence (AI), to the everyday apps. Yet, beneath the gleaming facades of hyperscale server parks lies a fast-unfolding crisis. Data centres have become the new “gold” of investment, attracting a global rush of tech giants and governments alike. But this large-scale infrastructure planning and spread carries high, underexamined costs across several fronts. Currently, cloud platforms run much of the internet, bringing each terawatt-hour of data processing from the working of coal plants, concrete cooling towers, and plunged aquifers.

WASHINGTON: In the corridors of power, where messaging is currency and optics are everything, President Donald Trump faces a political paradox that threatens to undermine his party's prospects in November's midterm elections: his administration's economic achievements are being systematically overshadowed by images of masked federal agents confronting protesters in Minneapolis.

As the world anxiously awaits whether the US will attack Iran — whose oil China buys in vast quantities as its largest customer — analysts warn of global repercussions that could spill over into broader geopolitical tensions. Although the arguments given by the US are to stop Iran's nuclear program and to address the so-called atrocities committed by the leadership against protesters complaining about the Iranian economy, the actual reason may lie elsewhere. It is the oil.

The 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in Davos from 19–23 January 2026 under the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue,” took place against a highly charged backdrop of strained global trade relations. Actions taken by the U.S. President Donald Trump fundamentally altered the established framework of cooperation among nations.