Indian Chess Set, 1800s.

Japanese Prime Minister was forced to resign today as public resented the signing of high tariffs agreement with US and commitment to invest close to half a trillion dollars in US. In his parting address, Japanese PM mentioned how he was forced to sign the unfavourable deal.

China created the Beijing-Shanghai line in 3yrs for $36B. The US estimates the SF-LA line will be done in 19-22yrs at a cost of $128B. The US’s margin for error is the same as it takes China to build the whole thing.

A few facts about ASML's $ASML moat: - The core of ASML moat is hard science. Printing patterns 2 nanometers apart on silicon at scale with consistency and throughput is something only they have figured out how to do. - The EUV machines are the most technically complex machines

India launches the “India Energy Stack” — a digital public infrastructure for power. It includes the Utility Intelligence Platform, built on open APIs, unique IDs, and interoperable systems. It aims to unify utilities, boost efficiency. livemint.com/industry/energ…

Ilya Sutskever explains why AI will do 100% the work that human can do within few years. "Slowly but surely, or maybe not so slowly, AI will keep getting better. The day will come when AI will do all of our, all the things that we can do, not just some of them, but all of them.

Mati Carbon has successfully piloted a method that uses basalt to soak up atmospheric carbon, while potentially improving agricultural yields for billions of small scale farmers. Read: on.forbes.com/6019AXezt

“You cannot have a profession where you use words like ‘my lord’, or when you’re doing a petition it’s called a prayer. You’ve got to be kidding me. We are all citizens of the same democratic republic” PM EAC member Sanjeev Sanyal #DAW2025 #LatestNews #Judiciary

स्वच्छता से जुड़ी यह पहल बहुत उत्साहित करने वाली है। मेरा आह्वान है कि अधिक से अधिक लोग इस अभियान से जुड़ें और इसे सफल बनाएं। swachhatahiseva.gov.in

"GoI is launching a ₹1 lakh cr Urban Challenge Fund to transform cities by redeveloping abandoned buildings and repurposing govt land with private sector..cities will compete for funding, with the Centre contributing 25% of project costs, emphasizing drainage, sanitation, and

Mangaluru professor in Stanford University’s top 2% scientist list for third year. U. Sandhya Shenoy, Professor and Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Srinivas University, Mukka,

Imagine being a "friend" of the United States.

Economic growth is literally everything. People fondly remember the times of high GDP growth and treat the ones with low growth as the dark ages. Growth means positive sum thinking becomes the optimal strategy and this is the bedrock of civic society. We must build more

The code for gemsofindia.org - a platform to rate and review public servants and politicians is now open source on GitHub! 🔗 Project Link: github.com/varunmara/gems… Some tasks where I’d love your help: 1. Scraping data from government websites to collect officials

#Environmental burden tips the scales: Bad air may be triggering rheumatoid arthritis #Doctors have warned that air #pollution is quietly turning #immune systems against their own bodies, fuelling a surge in rheumatoid #arthritis (RA) cases across #NCR. Details

It’s happened. We’ve just closed our seed round of $8.65 million. Led by Lachy Groom, with participation from Leo Polovets at Humba Ventures & Hemant Mohapatra from Lightspeed India doubling down. This round has been more than a validation of our vision, it’s on the back of making it a

The Andrej Karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self

India is still growing quite slowly in absolute terms when compared to US and China. GDP in 2014 US - 17.6 Lakh Crore China - 10.67 Lakh Crore India - 2.04 Lakh Crore GDP in 2025 US - 29.18 Lakh Crore China - 18.74 Lakh Crore India - 3.91 Lakh Crore Increase US - 11.58 Lakh

"Every time I go to Bangalore, I come back twice as energised. I meet people who speak fluent German and have never been to Germany. We will go to where that kind of talent is," says Mercedes-Benz CEO

From Nov, GST 2.0 = automatic registration in 3 days. Low-risk applicants + those with tax liability ≤ ₹2.5L/month get instant approval, no human interface. Nearly 96% of new businesses to benefit. Compliance made simple. A step that improves at the margins but matters Business Standard