Washington, July 6 (IANS) Artificial intelligence’s biggest obstacle is no longer advanced computer chips but access to electricity, BlackRock Chairman and Chief Executive Larry Fink has said, warning that the United States must modernise its ageing power grid or risk slowing the next wave of technological innovation.Speaking in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, Fink said the rapid expansion of AI is creating unprecedented demand for computing power, exposing weaknesses in America’s el…
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New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) India’s markets successfully navigated a turbulent quarter of geopolitical shocks, and US-Iran peace deal and oil trading near $70–$80 per barrel will help ease inflation, support the rupee, reduce the import bill, and benefit rate-sensitive and oil-consuming sectors, a report said on Tuesday.The report from smallcase said the key risk remains any breakdown of the peace deal or renewed disruption at the Strait of Hormuz. It could re-spike crude, revive inflation and…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) The Quad has once again demonstrated its resilience despite recurring speculation about its future, with a recent report arguing that “the Quad is likely to remain central to regional strategy, with India as a key partner” amid evolving geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific.According to report published by Modern Diplomacy, the recent Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi underscored the grouping’s continued relevance and strategic importance, even as…
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) India’s 2026 presidency of BRICS arrives at a moment of significant geopolitical and geo-economic turbulence, creating both a challenge and an opportunity for the country to help shape a more stable, inclusive, and pragmatic international order, senior representatives from government and industry said here on Thursday.Chintan Research Foundation (CRF) convened a closed-door roundtable, titled “BRICS Rising: India’s Strategic Presidency” in the national capital.Th…
Washington, May 20 (IANS) Senior US military commanders warned Congress that Africa has become the new global centre of terrorism, with extremist groups rapidly expanding across the continent and posing growing threats to American and allied interests. The warning came during a House Armed Services Committee hearing where General Dagvin Anderson said the threat from ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliates in Africa had reached alarming levels.“Today, the epicentre of global terrorism is in Africa,” And…
Kathmandu, May 16 (IANS) Nepal and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on May 12, 2017. Nine years later, no new project has been implemented in Nepal under the BRI, although Beijing has unilaterally categorised the China-assisted Pokhara International Airport in western Nepal as a landmark achievement under the initiative. Nepal, however, has not recognised the airport as a BRI project because negotiations with China to build …
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) India to build a strategic outpost in the Indo-Pacific, expanding its defence focus towards some of the busiest shipping routes in the world in Southeast Asia, a report said.India is pushing forward with a $9 billion infrastructure project on Great Nicobar Island, which is located near one of the world’s critical shipping arteries away from the Indian mainland.”It leverages Great Nicobar’s strategic location to strengthen India’s national security, maritime and defence p…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Thirty early-career faculty members from universities and research institutes across India joined a two-week capacity building programme on “Geopolitics in the 21st Century: Global Trends, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for India”, at the Jamia Millia Islamia on Monday, an official said. “The programme inaugurated at the Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Academy of International Studies is sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and aims to cover…
Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Thursday said that as the nation observed the first anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the primary question remains: have the masterminds of this massacre truly been held accountable, or has justice been sacrificed on the altar of global diplomacy?The Thackeray camp in an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, stated that despite India sending multi-party parliamentary deleg…
Colombo, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan’s military establishment treated the sponsorship of terrorism as a low-cost instrument with repercussions largely limited to diplomatic censure, episodic pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) or restrained military retaliation while the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) continued to function as a “one-way flow of strategic goodwill”, a report highlighted on Wednesday. Writing for ‘EuropaWire’, Dimitra Staikou, a Greek lawyer, writer, and journalist, not…