Shraddha Pandey

The US Congress has passed the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, empowering President Donald Trump to impose 100% tariffs on top five importers of Russian energy, including China and India.

After Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray called his implication in the Disha Salian death case as politically motivated, Salian's father Satish Salian has issued a Rs 500 crore defamation notice to him and ex-Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

The fresh round of outrage in support for Umar Khalid follows the grant of three-week interim bail to Swatantra Bhardwaj in the alleged assault case against Hinduphobic CJP-linked activist Nishu Azad’s father, Sanjay Azad.

The Finance Ministry and National Payments Corporation of India confirmed that only nominal 0.4% charges will be levied on payments to merchants (P2M) transactions above ₹2,000. The revised UPI Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) will come into effect from 15th October 2026.

On 12th September 2026, Ralph Lauren published several images of the deep pink gown, including a close-up of its embroidery; however, it made no mention of Indian Zardozi craftsmanship used in the embroidery.

On 14th September, Javed Akhtar expressed shock over a reel in which Anand Ranganathan spoke about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad urging Muslims to be extremely hard against Kafirs but extremely sympathetic among Muslims. Akhtar said that the quoted statement was attributed to Maulana Azad.

Beyond propaganda articles, a section of foreign media pushed a prejudiced narrative about India subtly through images during the BRICS Summit.

A woman sports biker identified as Sia shared a disturbing video on her Instagram page ‘rebelwheels_sia_’ on 13th September, alleging that she was chased and hit by a car in Gurugram, merely for asking its occupants to maintain a safe distance from her Aprilia RS 457 sports motorbike.

Days after Anthropic published a threat intelligence report highlighting alarming misuse of AI, its CEO published an essay proposing an AI slowdown, however, concerns have been raised that this proposal is not just about safety but also about bolstering duopoly of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Global investment bank Jefferies has published a report titled India’s New Industrial Revolution, said that space, semiconductors, data centres, electronics, solar manufacturing and aerospace sectors could drive the next phase of India’s economic growth.