US and Iranian forces exchanged strikes as the Hormuz standoff continued, with Trump threatening Iran's bridges and power plants if attacks on shipping persist. The House pushed through a $95 billion war budget over resistance in its own ranks.
Read more →Trump said Saudi Arabia must normalize relations with Israel for the newly announced US-Saudi nuclear deal to proceed, a condition the crown prince ties to steps toward a Palestinian state. The move drew alarm in Israel.
Read more →Arvind Raman, Indian American engineer and NIST director, will also serve as acting head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) after director Chris Fall resigned three months into the job. Raman keeps his NIST role.
Read more →Starship Flight 13 targets a 6:45pm ET window from Starbase, Texas, carrying 20 Starlink V3 satellites, after an engine-ignition abort and a weather scrub pushed the launch back twice this week.
Read more →Kash Patel met State Councilor Wang Xiaohong in Beijing on July 24, the first time in a decade an FBI director has received an audience with his Chinese counterpart. China agreed to designate all 13 fentanyl precursors and control seven chemical subsidiaries, part of expanded cooperation on scam centers and fugitive pursuit.
Read more →The US hit Iranian command centers, drone storage, and coastal surveillance sites on a thirteenth consecutive night. Trump told Axios he is considering an attack bigger than any so far and is close to a decision.
Read more →The administration replaced expired blanket duties with tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on 60 partners covering 99.4% of US trade, citing failure to enforce forced-labor import bans. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were set at 10%. The EU rejected the premise.
Read more →Kanishka Narayan, born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar and raised in Cardiff, was elevated to Minister for AI on July 21, the first time the brief holds a Cabinet seat. He had run AI and online safety as an under-secretary since 2025.
Read more →Bahrain and Kuwait secretly sent fighter jets to strike Iranian drone warehouses, missiles, and other military installations earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported, the first direct retaliatory action of its kind by either country against Tehran.
Read more →The NEET paper leak drove a second week of protests in Delhi, with activist Sonam Wangchuk past 26 days on hunger strike. Modi made his first public comment on the scandal, promising swift justice and fast-track courts.
Read more →US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor joined India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar celebrating USISPF's "We the People," a tribute to 250 people who shaped US-India relations, including Indra Nooyi, Shantanu Narayen, and Ajay Banga.
Read more →The National Testing Agency dismissed 47 officials and announced a complete overhaul following the NEET-UG paper-leak scandal, with legal and criminal action possible against some. The Cabinet also cleared a bill for stricter paper-leak punishment.
Read more →Art Forum SF revealed the SALA 2026 lineup, September 26-27 at Menlo College, with Nobel laureates Venki Ramakrishnan and Kailash Satyarthi alongside Shobhaa De, Aatish Taseer, Karan Mahajan, and Silicon Valley pioneer Kanwal Rekhi.
Read more →The India basketball documentary is the closing-night feature at the 49th Asian American International Film Festival, with a Greenpoint premiere on August 7 and an official selection at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival.
Read more →The comedian's Halwa run continues across the US, with an August 21 date in Miami among the stops. Full dates and tickets are listed on the tour schedule.
Read more →Prabhu Deva performs live on August 1 at the Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie, metro Dallas, a 100-plus dancer production billed as a pan-Indian dance concert.
Read more →Kimbal Musk's drone-show company capped its FIFA World Cup run with a piece over the Statue of Liberty and the NYC skyline, fitting for the week India reached orbit.
Read more →The mirror-work couture collection, inspired by India's historic Queen's Palaces, was shot at Raffles Jaipur, with jewellery by Purab Paschim and styling by Aaishwarya.
Read more →The 530K-follower vertical comedy creator is brand-funded for every episode of Brooklyn Coffee Shop, and tells The Ankler why she's resisting the jump to a streamer.
Read more →Sabyasachi's 2026 revival of his 2013 "Opium" collection, a Calcutta-Shanghai story told through mirror work, ties to his boutique at The Leela Palace Bengaluru.
Read more →Ranbir Kapoor and Yash joined director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Namit Malhotra for an exclusive Ramayana panel at SDCC on July 23, only the second Indian film after Kalki 2898 AD to get a major Comic-Con showcase.
Read more →The British-Indian actor takes on Eurylochus, Odysseus' loyal companion and fiercest critic, in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which opened July 17 to $264M globally, the biggest live-action debut of 2026 so far.
Read more →SpaceX will post Q2 2026 results after market close on Tuesday, August 4, with an audio-only webcast, its first report since the June 12 IPO. Mark the date: it is the first public read on the numbers under the launches.
Read more →OpenAI elevated Uday Ruddaraju, a Hyderabad-trained engineer who came up through AWS, eBay, Robinhood and xAI, to CTO of Compute. He now leads the computing infrastructure behind the company's models, the most expensive problem in AI.
Read more →Columbia's Vice Dean of Computing and AI, Cricinfo's co-founding CTO, and a minority owner and Dean of Cricket Analytics at MLC's San Francisco Unicorns, joins the panel July 30 at Pier 57, co-partnered with the IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation.
Read more →Brent crude closed above $100 for the first time since May, up roughly 40% in July, after Houthi forces struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea and declared an embargo on Saudi ports. Five more tankers reversed course mid-voyage.
Read more →Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a smart-skin humanoid built in six months, at AMD Advancing AI 2026 (July 22-23). The frontier of AI compute keeps running through the same conference circuit as the diaspora's biggest infrastructure roles.
Read more →The Department of Energy selected roughly 278-300 projects across 342 institutions, 16 national labs, 142 universities, 157 companies, to accelerate AI-driven research in nuclear energy, critical minerals, chip design, and fusion.
Read more →Block released Buzz on July 21, an open-source, Nostr-based workspace combining chat, code, and AI agents under one cryptographic identity system, positioned against Slack and GitHub.
Read more →IBM signed a deal to acquire HRL Laboratories, jointly owned by Boeing and GM, for its silicon-spin qubit expertise, tied to IBM's Anderon quantum wafer foundry. Terms undisclosed; expected to close by the end of Q3 2026.
Read more →MS Dhoni invested in rooftop-solar startup SolarSquare through his family office as part of a $53M Series C round, and signed on as brand ambassador. Founded by Shreya Mishra and Nikhil Nahar, the company has installed systems in more than 50,000 homes across 29 cities.
Read more →England beat India by 27 runs in the decider at Lord's to win the ODI series 2-1, their first over India since 2018. Rohit's 138 and Kohli's 74 were not enough to chase 388, set up by Duckett's 141.
Read more →The Los Angeles Knight Riders beat the Washington Freedom by one run in the MLC final on July 18, a death-over thriller sealed by Shadley van Schalkwyk, in front of a record crowd. Sunil Narine took 3/13 and was named player of the match.
Read more →India beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the first T20I, chasing 126 with 40 balls to spare. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hit his maiden international fifty off 18 balls and Mayank Yadav took 2 for 18. It was India's first T20I win since the World Cup in March.
Read more →Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup final at MetLife on July 19, Ferran Torres scoring in extra time as Argentina, down to ten men after Enzo Fernandez was sent off, faded. It is Spain's second title.
Read more →Kimi Antonelli took his sixth win of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix, beating Charles Leclerc by under two seconds with Max Verstappen third, after George Russell spun out on lap one. The Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday is the last race before the summer break.
Read more →LeBron James joins Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, and Jaylen Brown in Philadelphia on a two-year deal with a player option, beginning at the veteran minimum this season.
Read more →Ryan Fox birdied the 18th to win the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale at 10-under, one clear of Cameron Young after four birdies in the final six holes.
Read more →PV Sindhu beat home favorite Akane Yamaguchi 21-17, 21-17 to win the Japan Open, the first Indian ever to take the title and her first BWF Super 750 crown, ending a nearly two-year drought.
Read more →The Games opened July 23 with India leading the athletes' parade. The Indian contingent competes across six sports on day one, with medal events in para powerlifting, artistic gymnastics, and para swimming. Debutant Putul Sonowal beat reigning world champion Ryan Bester in the bowls. The Games run through August 2.
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