NEW DELHI: Is air pollution directly causing deaths in India? The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MOEFCC) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under health ministry have offered starkly different answers to this question, exposing a policy contradiction at the heart of the govt’s public health and environment response.On Thursday, MOEFCC…
Hyundai Motor may have a union problem in South Korea. The automaker’s labour union has warned the company against deploying humanoid robots without its approval, saying the robots would bring “employment shocks”. The warning comes weeks after the company shared plans to deploy humanoid robots starting in 2028, sending the company shares rallying to record…
AI-generated image used for representation (Source: ChatGPT) Islamic Nato in the making? Turkey is seeking to join a defence alliance between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, this can be seen as an effort in direction to reshape security alignments in the Middle East region and beyond, as Bloomberg reported.The pact, initially signed by Pakistan and…
In a move set to reshape security dynamics across the Indo-Pacific, the United States has approved its largest-ever arms sale to Taiwan, a massive $11.15 billion (nearly Rs 98,000 crore) defence package that has triggered sharp reactions from China and renewed global focus on the Taiwan Strait. The decision comes amid rising military pressure from…