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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.There was a telling moment on the second day of Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. America’s president was strolling with Xi Jinping through the gardens of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, on May 15th.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The first public walkthrough of Epochal: The Period of Pioneers, a joint exhibition by Chatterjee & Lal and DAG in Mumbai, was packed to the rafters last month. Around 250 people turned up on a hot Saturday afternoon to see this showcase of modernists such as K.S. Kulkarni, Benode Behari Mukherjee, J.

F&O segment has evolved into a critical pillar of India’s capital market infrastructure.But success, as often happens in financial markets, brings new challenges.The debate today is no longer about whether derivatives are necessary. The concern instead revolves around the scale and nature of retail participation, particularly in short-dated options.Data over the last few years has shown a clear pattern: a large proportion of retail traders in options incur net losses.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IDFC First Bank’s investors are shaken, pulling the stock down as much as 20% following reports of a fraud at the fast-growing lender. What began as a disappointing de-empanelment of IDFC and AU Small Finance Bank by the Haryana government—affecting 0.5% of their deposits—quickly evolved into something far more unsettling.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With the US's recent invasion of Venezuela, and sanction and tariff threats on trade with Iran, the so-called global ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers is in focus again. Used to transport oil by countries under Western sanctions such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela, the size of this fleet has grown manifold and now accounts for an estimated 18.5% of global tanker capacity, according to S&P Global.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India launched a surveillance drive following the identification of two suspected cases of Nipah virus (NiV) in West Bengal on 11 January. With two patients—both nurses—under observation at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Kalyani in West Bengal, the Central government has activated the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) in New Delhi.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HONG KONG—As street protests and a failing economy continue to put pressure on Iran’s government, its ally China has offered few signs of support. Rather than boost Tehran in its time of need, the partnership that had worried governments in the West and Middle East has instead shown signs of its limited scope and resilience.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shriram Finance Ltd stock, already trading at a lifetime high, gained another 3.7% on Friday to ₹902 after it announced MUFG Bank Ltd will buy 471 million shares at ₹840 per share in the company through a preferential allotment. The transaction gives MUFG a 20% stake.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THIS SPRING McKinsey made what seemed to be an extraordinarily bullish forecast of capital spending on the chips, data centres and energy to produce artificial intelligence (AI): $5.2trn worldwide in the next five years. Less than six months on, the consultancy is considering upping that estimate.

Accenture Plc reported $1.1 billion in advanced AI revenue in its first quarter (September-November 2025) on Thursday, compared to $500 million in the year-ago period, marking a 120% jump in the disruptive technology.Significantly, the world’s largest technology and consulting services company said it will not disclose numbers from AI business in the future, as the technology has become all-pervasive.“This will be the last quarter in which we share advanced AI bookings and revenues,” read Accenture’s earnings presentation on Thursday. “We have now reached a point where advanced AI is being embedded in some way across nearly everything we do, and many of our clients are focusing on moving beyond standalone proofs of concept or initiatives.”Accenture chair and chief executive Julie Sweet said, “It has become less meaningful to isolate the data specifically for advanced AI, as it does not reflect how the demand is evolving on the ground, the scope, the full scope of our AI work and the value we're creating.”At least one expert said Accenture’s move is also to avoid any confusion.“Accenture’s decision is pragmatic rather than evasive — GenAI is now deeply embedded across deals, pricing models, and delivery constructs, rather than a clean, standalone revenue line,” said Phil Ferhst, chief executive of HFS Research.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ON DECEMBER 12TH situation maps around the key railway town of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s north-east flipped from red to blue. DeepState, a war monitor, explained the change: a successful Ukrainian counter-attack had liberated most of the town, leaving pockets of Russians encircled.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The triceps kickback goes under the radar when it comes to the usual tricep exercises done on push day. The favourites for that muscle seem to be locked in a constant loop of tricep pushdowns, skull-crunchers, dips and overhead extensions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A few days ago, I spoke with someone who had read that markets are expensive right now. Sensibly enough, they assumed this meant stock prices were high.

Michel Siffre undertook a radical self-experiment: to live in complete isolation inside a glacier cave in the Scarasson mountain in the Ligurian Alps—130 meters below the surface—for over two months. Inspired by the space race and the psychological challenges astronauts might face, Siffre aimed to understand how the human body perceives time in the absence of natural cues like sunlight or clocks. “This idea came to me—this idea that became the idea of my life,” Siffre later told Cabinet Magazine. “I decided to live like an animal, without a watch, in the dark, without knowing the time.”

The notices, which target individuals with little to no financial capacity, expose a troubling pattern of fraud involving stolen Aadhaar and PAN card details. Among the most cases reported so far is that of Karan Kumar, a 34-year-old sanitation worker who earns a modest Rs 15,000 per month at the State Bank of India’s Khair branch. On March 29, Karan received an Income Tax notice demanding an outrageous sum of Rs 33.88 crore. This demand, based on transactions carried out using his identity, came as a complete shock. According to Karan, Mahaveer Enterprises, a company dealing in petroleum and steel goods, had been using a forged PAN and Aadhaar card linked to his name for large-scale transactions in Delhi.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday strongly criticised and condemned the remarks made by the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus, claiming that Bangladesh is the «only guardian» of the Indian Ocean for the region, as the seven northeastern Indian states are «landlocked». Yunus made these remarks during his four-day visit to China. Taking to the social media platform X, the Assam CM said that the statement was «offensive and strongly condemnable», noting that the region had been under ongoing security risk discourse linked to India's critical 'Chicken's Neck' corridor." Sarma further highlighted historical suggestions by some internal elements in India to sever this critical passageway and isolate the Northeast. «The statement made by Md Younis of Bangladesh so-called interim Government referring to the seven sister states of Northeast India as landlocked and positioning Bangladesh as their guardian of ocean access is offensive and strongly condemnable. This remark underscores the persistent vulnerability narrative associated with India's strategic „Chicken's Neck“ corridor. Historically, even internal elements within India have dangerously suggested severing this critical passageway to isolate the Northeast from the mainland physically,» Sarma said.

Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) on Monday blamed his estranged uncle and political rival Pashupati Kumar Paras for alleged mistreatment meted out to his late father's first wife. According to LJP(RV) state president Raju Tiwari, the wives of Paras and his deceased younger brother Ram Chandra Paswan recently tried to evict Rajkumari Devi from their ancestral house in Khagaria district of Bihar. The Union minister's late father Ram Vilas Paswan had tied the knot with Rajkumari Devi more than 20 years before marrying his mother Reena, who was based in Delhi. According to Tiwari, «As soon as our national president learnt of the episode, he asked his nephew Prince Paswan to visit their ancestral village Sahar Banni and take stock of the situation.» «We have been told that the room allotted to Rajkumari Devi has been locked and she is being asked to leave. Paras, who claims to worship late Paswan, is behind the humiliation of bhabhi (sister-in-law), who is old and does not enjoy good health. But, we stand in her support,» said Tiwari. No complaint has, so far, been lodged with the police in this regard and Paras, who heads the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, could not be reached for comments.

Athos Salomé, a self-proclaimed psychic known as the ‘Living Nostradamus,’ has issued a warning about the possibility of World War III. The 38-year-old from Brazil believes recent global developments suggest an approaching major conflict. He pointed to sabotage and hybrid warfare as potential triggers, reported Mirror.

The initial 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the central Myanmar city of Mandalay early Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. The tremors collapsed buildings, downed bridges and buckled roads, with mass destruction seen in the city of more than 1.7 million people. As dawn broke Sunday, tea shop owner Win Lwin picked his way through the remains of a collapsed restaurant on a main road in his neighbourhood, tossing bricks aside one by one. «About seven people died here» when the quake struck Friday, he told AFP. «I'm looking for more bodies but I know there cannot be any survivors.

Sandeep Kumar Gupta, CMD, GAIL (India), says the Rs 20 increase in tariff which they have filed will translate to Rs 3,400 crore per annum and they are very hopeful that at least two elements out of this, – Rs 1,200 crore for true up-of-the-system use gas cost and about Rs 800 crore due to the APM price deallocation and the capacity determination totalling Rs 2,000 crore – is certain. We expect that this development should be there in the next month itself. How do you see the proposed tariff changes by PNGRB and how does GAIL benefit from this? Sandeep Kumar Gupta: The public consultation document which has been floated by PNGRB proposing certain changes in the regulation covers two-three main changes. First, there will be only two zones instead of the three zonal tariffs presently available and the silver lining is that for all CGDs, for their domestic PNG and CNG volumes, only zone one tariff will be applicable. This will be a big positive for GAIL which is present in 72 geographical areas out of the total 307 geographical areas.