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Up early? We recently had a second son, Isaac, who is only seven weeks old. Our eldest, Ishmael, is two. I’m up at 5.40am, because our night nanny works until 6am. I need to get out of bed, brush my teeth and relieve the nanny.
Sunday with Tan France: ‘I feel nauseous…
Discussing the US’ response to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, former foreign Secretary Shyam Saran in his book How China Sees India and the World notes: “Deng was also convinced that sheer profit motive would persuade Western companies invested in China to persuade their government to eventually relax the sanctions.
A stronger relationship with India would help the US declare its “independence” from China, Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy believes and has called for stronger strategic ties with New Delhi, including a military relationship in the Andaman Sea.
At 38, Ramaswamy is the youngest Republican presidential candidate ever.
Stronger US-India relationship…
Good morning, and welcome to the weekend.
Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and sit down with a selection of this week’s great reads from The Globe.
In this issue our personal finance team delivers a comprehensive guide to surviving, and maybe even thriving, as a postsecondary student.
Great Reads: Financial survival for…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a humanoid robot ‘Vyommitra’ into space as part of its human space mission programme ‘Gaganyaan’, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday following the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
Initially scheduled for September, the first phase of Gaganyaan, an unmanned trial mission, has been rescheduled to…
Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) leads this week’s list of stocks to watch as Google stock is in a buy zone. EV-related plays and IBD 50 list members Allison Transmission (ALSN) and Li Auto (LI) also are on the list. So is oil services giant SLB (SLB) along with payments processor Mastercard (MA).
Google…
A year ago at Berlin’s IFA tech trade show (think European CES), Verge reporter Jon Porter witnessed a Google Nest Hub control an Apple HomeKit smart plug. This “lightbulb moment for the smart home” was the first public demonstration of Matter.
IFA 2023 could be a moment for the smart home…
Open this photo in gallery: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and former Chancellor Angela Merkel laugh together during a handover ceremony in Berlin, on Dec. 8, 2021.Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press
Germany, poor Germany, is once again being called the sick man of Europe.
Germany is stumbling into recession. Angela Merkel’s dubious economic…
Self-driving cars, like the Cruise model from General Motors pictured above, are already on streets throughout the United States. Heather Somerville/Reuters
Pedestrian detectors in self-driving cars are less likely to detect kids and people of color, study shows.
This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.
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The world celebrated India on its historic moon landing Wednesday, as it became the first space program to reach the lunar south pole region with a robotic spacecraft.
But in the words of a cynical internet meme: Pics, or it didn’t happen.
India Shares Video Proof Of Its Phenomenal Moon Landing…