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EU offers Canada 'associate membership': Why now & what a status that doesn't yet exist could mean

India, Sept. 17 -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed that Canada become the European Union's first "associate member", a status never defined or used by the bloc before. ... Read More


How energy, defence shape India-Russia ties as Modi prepares to meet Putin at BRICS

India, Sept. 11 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 11 on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with defence, trade and economic coop... Read More


What Donald Trump said about his building just hours after 9/11 - and what followed

India, Sept. 11 -- "40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest - and then, when they built the W... Read More


What is BRICS and why does it matter? The story of how a Goldman Sachs acronym became an 11-member bloc

India, Sept. 10 -- The 18th BRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi on September 12 and 13, with India hosting the grouping as its chair in 2026. The summit comes as BRICS has grown from a four-country... Read More


How Britain handed Hong Kong to China in 1997 - and what followed under Tung Chee-hwa

India, Sept. 9 -- Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first Chief Executive after the territory was handed back from British to Chinese rule, has died aged 89. His office said he died peacefully on September 8... Read More


Alternative-fuel cars outsell petrol cars in India for first time. What's driving the shift?

India, Sept. 8 -- India's passenger-vehicle market crossed a significant threshold in August, when cars powered by alternative fuels collectively outsold petrol-powered cars for the first time. Accord... Read More


46,590 tracked objects, another 1.2 million we can't see: The mess humans have created in space

India, Sept. 5 -- A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slammed into the Moon on August 5 after drifting through space for more than 18 months. The high-speed collision kicked up a plume of debris and g... Read More


Shifting sands & 'strategic hedging' in the Gulf: How the countries are looking beyond the US

India, Sept. 5 -- Six months of war between the US-Israel and Iran have left the Gulf operating in a security landscape very different from the one that existed before the conflict. The fighting has s... Read More


Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford-the rest is Google history

India, Sept. 4 -- Google Inc. was formally born in September 1998, and went on to change how the world finds information online. But Google did not begin in a corporate office or as a grand business p... Read More


GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI says the AGI era is here - but what does it mean?

India, Sept. 4 -- "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI's President Greg Brockman said during a press briefing this week. The company launched GPT-6 Astra-its latest frontier AI model-on September 3, with ... Read More