LexTech, Centre For Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, NLU Odisha Launches Second Article Writing Competition 2026

LexTech, Centre For Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, NLU Odisha Launches Second Article Writing Competition 2026

LexTech: Centre for Law, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation is a research centre dedicated to exploring the intersections of law and emerging technologies. With a focus on FinTech, AI, TMT, Online Gaming & Betting Laws, and Data Privacy, LexTech promotes interdisciplinary research, capacity building, and responsible tech adoption.A brief overview of LexTech’s activities, events and initiatives over … Read more

Former Swiggy, Zomato executives launch AI startup Profound with $1.5 Mn seed round

Former Swiggy, Zomato executives launch AI startup Profound with $1.5 Mn seed round

Bengaluru based AI startup Profound has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round as it launched an AI powered platform for professional networking and hiring.The startup was founded by Anuj Rathi and Prashant Parashar, former product and technology leaders with experience across Swiggy, Zomato, Cleartrip, Flipkart, Ola and Walmart Labs.The seed round saw participation … Read more

China’s innovation-driven growth can support more inclusive global development

China’s innovation-driven growth can support more inclusive global development

A photo shows part of the skyline in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province on July 12, 2026. Photo: VCGChina’s economic growth is undergoing a structural shift, with new and emerging technologies moving beyond a supporting role to become genuine drivers of growth. According to data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in July, … Read more

Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen – WSJ

Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen - WSJ

Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen WSJHere’s Why the US Is Helping Prop Up the Japanese Yen The New York TimesWhy Bessent Is Leaning on the Fed to Help Prop Up Japan’s Currency WSJBessent Says Yen Level Problem for Japan, Other Currencies Bloomberg.comThe message beneath the yen intervention Axios

Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination will advance to full US Senate vote | Trump administration

Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination will advance to full US Senate vote | Trump administration

The US Senate judiciary committee voted along party lines to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general after he confirmed in writing that a planned $1.8bn slush fund for Donald Trump’s allies was dead. Experts say, however, that Trump could easily reverse the deal.His nomination will now proceed to the full Senate, where it will … Read more

Meta Horizon+ Adds 2 Great Monthly Games & 5 Catalog Titles

Meta Horizon+ Adds 2 Great Monthly Games & 5 Catalog Titles

The August update for Meta’s Horizon+ subscription for Quest headsets brings 2 great monthly games and five new catalog titles.The August titles arrive shortly after the service expanded to include access to the Xbox Game Pass Starter plan, which includes up to 10 hours of cloud gaming each month across more than 50 supported Xbox … Read more

Trump keeps making threats. Washington and the world have stopped flinching.

Trump keeps making threats. Washington and the world have stopped flinching.

LONDON — When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden in April 2025 brandishing a poster board of tariff hikes, the world leaped as if a fire alarm had gone off. Markets shed trillions of dollars, envoys rushed to Washington, more than 75 governments scrambled to negotiate, some scrapping carefully prepped countermeasures in a … Read more

Kazakhstan Prioritizes Foreign Retails Chains as Higher-Value Exports Grow

Kazakhstan Prioritizes Foreign Retails Chains as Higher-Value Exports Grow

ASTANA – Kazakhstan is preparing new support to place domestically produced goods in major foreign retail chains as the country seeks to build on rising nonresource exports and shift sales toward higher-value finished products. Photo credit: kaztag.kz Nonresource exports increased 14.5% in the first five months of 2026 to $11.8 billion, while around 44% of … Read more

Scientists propose nuking Doomsday asteroid from space

Scientists propose nuking Doomsday asteroid from space

That’s one way to stop the a-rock-alypse. Chinese scientists have devised an unorthodox solution to stop a potential Doomsday asteroid from destroying Earth — by nuking the space-rock with a force equivalent to multiple Hiroshima bombs. Seemingly taking a leaf from “Armageddon,” the researchers proposed first drilling deep inside the intergalactic gravelstone and then implanting … Read more