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India’s Online Gaming Rules Take Effect 1 May

MeitY’s framework reshapes how platforms operate and who bears accountability The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has formally notified amendments governing online gaming in India, with the new framework set to take effect from 1 May. The notification follows months of consultation, legal challenge, and industry negotiation. However, its arrival marks a genuine inflection […]

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US-Iran nuclear talks

The Deal Is the Distraction: Inside the US-Iran Nuclear Standoff

Behind Oman’s back-channel diplomacy, a harder confrontation is being engineered, not avoided The dominant framing of the current US-Iran crisis is a familiar one: two hostile states, a dangerous weapons programme, and a last-ditch diplomatic effort to pull the world back from the edge. Journalists track the Oman back-channel. Analysts count enrichment centrifuges. Governments issue

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Trump and Iran Exchange Threats as Nuclear Talks Teeter

Both sides signal readiness for escalation, narrowing the window for diplomacy Donald Trump has warned publicly that bombs will fall if no agreement is reached with Iran over its nuclear programme. Tehran responded not with retreat but with a counter-signal, announcing it holds new cards yet to be played. Both statements arrived within the same

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India and South Korea Set $50 Billion Trade Goal in Seoul

Modi and Lee’s summit reframes a quiet partnership as a strategic economic axis Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have formally agreed to pursue a $50 billion bilateral trade target, announcing what both governments are calling a futuristic partnership. The summit in Seoul produced commitments spanning semiconductors, clean energy, shipbuilding, and

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US Sets Two Conditions to Resume Nuclear Talks With Iran

Washington’s preconditions reveal a negotiating posture that Tehran has already rejected once The United States has formally signalled its willingness to return to diplomatic engagement with Iran, attaching two explicit conditions to any resumption of dialogue. The conditions centre on Iran’s uranium enrichment levels and its cooperation with international inspectors. Neither demand is new. Both

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US Iran Blockade Threat Pushes Gulf to the Brink

Washington’s naval pressure on Tehran raises the cost of failure for every oil-dependent economy The United States has signalled its intention to enforce a naval blockade of Iranian ports following the breakdown of nuclear negotiations. The move represents a sharp departure from the sanctions-and-diplomacy cycle that has defined Washington’s Iran policy for two decades. A

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Pakistan’s Islamabad Gambit: Why US-Iran Peace Talks Are Already Failing

The ceasefire is cracking, the mediator is misread, and Islamabad holds the line between diplomacy and catastrophe The world’s coverage of this weekend’s negotiations in Islamabad has settled on a comfortingly familiar frame: two enemies, one mediator, a chance for peace. That frame is wrong. The US-Iran peace talks, beginning this Saturday, are not a

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Strategic Explosions Rock Kharg Island and Central Iranian Bridge: Reports

Attacks on vital oil and transport infrastructure mark a sharp escalation in regional hostilities Multiple explosions targeted the primary oil export hub at Kharg Island and a critical bridge in central Iran during the early hours of 7 April 2026. These strikes represent a direct assault on the economic arteries that sustain the Iranian state.

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BA.3.2 COVID variant

BA.3.2 Hits Children Five Times Harder Than Prior Variants

A new Omicron subvariant is rewriting paediatric risk, and health systems are underprepared A new Omicron subvariant has drawn urgent attention from public health bodies across three continents. BA.3.2, the latest strain to emerge from SARS-CoV-2’s accelerating mutation cycle, carries a paediatric risk profile that separates it sharply from its predecessors. Children under twelve are

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Iran’s Strike Arsenal Half-Intact as Tehran Threatens Retaliation

Intelligence assessments reveal surviving capacity even as Iran signals its next move Western intelligence assessments now place nearly half of Iran’s missile launchers and kamikaze drone platforms as operationally intact following recent strikes on its territory. Tehran, rather than signalling restraint, has responded with a formal vow of crushing retaliation. These two facts, taken together,

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