Month: September 2026

India’s record eighth Women’s Asia Cup title has produced another landmark moment, with left-arm spinner Shree Charani rewriting the country’s record books in the latest ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings. Charani has reached a career-best 804 rating points, becoming the first Indian to cross the 800-point mark in the rankings.

India is facing a difficult combination of external pressures as a major Saudi oil pipeline remains shut and trade tensions with the United States continue to create uncertainty for exporters. The two developments are unrelated in origin, but together they could put pressure on India’s import bill, inflation, currency and

India is facing renewed trade pressure from Washington after US lawmakers introduced competing amendments to a Russia sanctions bill that could expose major buyers of Russian energy, including India, to additional tariffs of up to 100%. The development comes as the US House considers the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia

Microsoft has unveiled a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct aimed at ensuring increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems remain under meaningful human control. The framework, developed over the past five to six months, is designed to shape how Microsoft trains and develops future AI models as concerns grow over increasingly

Oracle has begun another round of layoffs as the technology giant accelerates spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, creating a striking contradiction at the heart of its business strategy: fewer employees on one side and billions of dollars committed to AI and cloud expansion on the other. The latest cuts were

Meta has agreed to report cases involving child sexual abuse and other child-safety concerns directly to appropriate law enforcement agencies in India, marking a significant shift as the government increases pressure on social-media companies to strengthen protections for children online. Government sources described the move as a first step, while

The Centre has formally moved to protect small-value UPI payments from transaction charges, bringing clarity to months of uncertainty over whether India’s most widely used digital payment system could eventually introduce fees. Under a Finance Ministry notification issued on September 14, banks and payment-system providers cannot impose direct or indirect

Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has described India’s 2026 BRICS chairship as a major diplomatic success, arguing that the results of the New Delhi Summit demonstrate the growing influence of India in the Global South. His assessment comes after BRICS members adopted the New Delhi Declaration despite significant differences over

The incident involving the Panama-flagged oil tanker El Gaia has triggered a fresh confrontation between Iran and the United States over the security of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says the tanker caught fire after striking naval mines, while US Central Command (CENTCOM)