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Iran petroleum minister to visit next week

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3 min readNew DelhiJun 21, 2026 04:46 AM IST Eye on Assembly polls in Punjab next year, BJP president Nitin Nabin commenced his three-day visit to the state on Saturday with a promise to bring benefits of central welfare schemes under a “double-engine” BJP government. Nabin, along with BJP Punjab unit president Kewal Singh Dhillon, attended a meeting of the state core committee where he said the party has “a clear vision” for Punjab which is focused on making it drug-free.During the meeting, Nabin held detailed discussions on strengthening the BJP’s organisation down to the booth level, formulating the roadmap for upcoming programmes and reviewing the “prevailing political and organisational situation in the state”. A senior party leader pointed out that this was not the first organisational stint of Nabin in Punjab. As president of the BJP’s yuva morcha, he had camped in the state during the 2012 Assembly polls. Earlier in the day, the BJP president visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar where he offered prayers and performed seva by cleaning utensils. He also visited the Jallianwala Bagh, Durgiana Temple and Sri Ram Tirath Temple. Drawing a link between his home state Bihar and Punjab, Nabin said: “I have come from Patna Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, which is also my karmabhoomi. It is my privilege to have the opportunity to visit this land of the Gurus, pay obeisance at Sri Harmandir Sahib, and offer prayers here,” he said. “This sacred place has its own glorious history, which has given Punjab a distinct identity and stature across the country and the world,” said the BJP leader.Story continues below this ad “The way Maharaja Ranjit Singh gave this city and state a unique identity, we all want to build Punjab of his dreams and for that I prayed,” he said. The BJP president said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is advancing rapidly on the path of development, and Punjab too should achieve new milestones of growth and prosperity. He said the party has “a clear vision for Punjab and it firmly believes that only a double-engine BJP government” led by PM Modi can make the state drug-free. Later in the evening, Nabin, accompanied by BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh and Kewal Singh Dhillon, took out a roadshow in Jalandhar.Story continues below this ad It is Nabin’s first visit to Punjab after taking over as the BJP’s national president. During his three-day tour, he will participate in a series of religious, social and organisational programmes in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana.

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Congress’ wait to join the Tamil Nadu Cabinet continues

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu iThe Congress on Saturday (June 20, 2026) hit out at the government over "rapidly depleting savings due to high inflation" and said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy "shopping" from other parties while the common person cannot afford the necessities.Editorial | Fuller expression: on India’s inflationCongress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that households are perishing under the weight of the Modi government's "mismanagement of the economy".In a post on X, Mr. Kharge said, "Rapidly depleting savings due to high inflation. Unaffordability, betrayal of aspirations, inequality, fall in global credibility, youth anger galore!" "Households perish under the weight of Modi Govt's mismanagement of the economy!" the Congress chief said."Retail Inflation — 16-month high. Food Inflation — 4.78%, tomatoes vanish from plates. Medical inflation above 15%. Rupee sinking to the pits. Foreign investors shunning us. No Jobs for youth, unemployment zooms," Mr. Kharge said."BJP busy shopping from other parties, but the AAM AADMI can't afford basic necessities!" he said. Published - June 20, 2026 01:23 pm IST

They really launched this tiny spacecraft (Well, sort of.) | Space photo of the day for May 11, 2026

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They really launched this tiny spacecraft (Well, sort of.) | Space photo of the day for May 11, 2026

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is falling out of space. NASA has a daring plan to save it with a spacecraft built by Katalyst Space. (Image credit: NASA) WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — For over 20 years, NASA's Swift space observatory has been conducting prolific science in orbit, hunting for signs of gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions in the universe. Now, it's falling to Earth, doomed to a fiery death by the end of the year as its orbit decays.But maybe not.NASA, it turns out, has a daring rescue mission in the works, something never before attempted in space: the Swift Boost mission. The endeavor calls for an untested spacecraft built by the Arizona company Katalyst Space Technologies to rendezvous and dock with Swift — something the observatory was never designed to do — before the observatory falls back to Earth.If all goes well, Katalyst's space tug (it's called Link) will lift the Swift observatory into a higher, safer orbit — one that will add years of life to the aging space telescope's mission. Liftoff is officially set for June 27, with Link launching on the last-ever Pegasus XL rocket, an air-launched booster built by Northrop Grumman."Frankly, I have to be honest: No one thought it was going to be possible," Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA's Astrophysics Division director, told reporters here on Wednesday (June 17). "No one thought we would get as far as we've already gotten today."What stands out most is how quickly the mission came together. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing universe. Launched in 2004, the space telescope's days are numbered as it is falling out of space. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)It was just in September 2025 that NASA picked Katalyst to build a spacecraft capable of boosting Swift on a budget of $30 million. That was nine months ago. And now, the finished Link spacecraft — with its three robotic arms, three main Hall thrusters and a suite of other instruments — is packed aboard its Pegasus XL rocket and tucked on the belly of its L-1011 Stargazer carrier plane for a trip to its launch site in the South Pacific's Kwajalein Atoll."In the last nine months, we have gone from a clean sheet to a spacecraft that is currently integrated on a rocket on an airplane, ready to go to Kwaj for launch," said Kieran Wilson, Link's principal investigator at Katalyst Space, on Wednesday. "This is an absolutely unprecedented development timeline for this program."Yet that "swift" timeline, if you will, is essential if NASA is to rescue the Swift space observatory. Katalyst Space's LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket on June 8, 2026, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (Image credit: NASA/Ron Beard)NASA originally launched Swift (its full name is the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, after its late principal investigator) in 2004 on a $250 million mission to search the sky for gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy astrophysics phenomena in the cosmos. From its original orbit about 375 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth, Swift was a silent sentinel, ready to quickly pivot to new targets with unprecedented speed."Swift was designed to study gamma-ray bursts, short-lived flashes of high-energy light that release more energy in just a few seconds than the sun will in its entire lifetime," Swift principal investigator Brad Cenko told reporters Wednesday. "It's been extremely successful in this regard, detecting over 2,000 of these sources all the way out to the edge of the visible universe."It was Swift that helped scientists confirm without a doubt that the heaviest elements we know of, including the shiny gold and platinum in the jewelry you're wearing right now, were forged by these explosive cosmic events, Cenko said. Swift was expected to last two years in orbit. It's well into its second decade now, and sti

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Your Next Smartphone, Laptop May Cost More Than You Think. Here's Why

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Everyone is navigating AI security in real time even Google

In Brief Posted: 10:26 AM PDT · June 12, 2026 Image Credits:Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto / Getty Images Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit card numbers. Outsider Enterprise has financially scammed “hundreds of thousands of victims” with losses “estimated in the millions.” The group deployed 9,000 fake websites, 1 million fraudulent web domains, and 2.5 million texts sent to Android users in a two-week period, according to Google. “55,000 spam texts were flagged by Android users in just two weeks this past May — that’s more than two text spam complaints a minute,” Google said. Google said it uses “AI-powered tools to fight AI-powered scams”, which enable the company to detect scams and alert users of suspicious calls and text messages, leading to the interception of more than 10 billion scam messages a month. The company said it has been collaborating with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to block the scam text messages and said it is coordinating with the FBI, which is taking unspecified law enforcement actions. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in Security

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute

Loading the player… The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for what we can even expect from a public tech company in 2026. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane break down what this IPO moment actually means beyond the headline numbers, and who stands to benefit. Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. Topics AI, ai infrastructure, Anthropic, Apple WWDC, ChatGPT, FAANG, Fundraising, Google, IPO, MANGOS, OpenAI, Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF, SpaceX, Waymo Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch in 2022, she was one of 2 producers at a four-station conglomerate where she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered live performances and interviews from guests like lovelytheband. Theresa is based in New Jersey and holds a bachelors degree in Communication from Monmouth University. You can contact or verify outreach from Theresa by emailing theresa.loconsolo@techcrunch.com. View Bio Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news

Cancel it, Trump says after artists drop out of US Freedom 250 festival

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Cancel it, Trump says after artists drop out of US Freedom 250 festival

NewsWorldUS-Canada bridge opening delayed: Gordie Howe Bridge faces issues after Trump threat The bridge, which was due to be inaugurated on Friday, connects Detroit in the US state of Michigan with Windsor in Ontario, Canada. 4 min readJun 12, 2026 06:53 AM IST First published on: Jun 12, 2026 at 06:53 AM IST The Gordie Howe Bridge is shown under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit. (Photo: AP) The opening of a major bridge linking the United States and Canada has been delayed due to unresolved issues, officials said, months after US President Donald Trump had questioned its ownership. In a statement, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority said that “Canada and the United States have agreed to delay the opening of the bridge, taking the necessary time to resolve any outstanding issues.” The authority did not specify what the issues are or when the bridge will open.The bridge, which was due to be inaugurated on Friday, connects Detroit in the US state of Michigan with Windsor in Ontario, Canada. What is the Gordie Howe bridge? The Gordie Howe International Bridge stretches about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) across the Detroit River. It is jointly owned by Canada and the state of Michigan and is expected to ease traffic at one of North America’s busiest border crossings. The project, worth about $4.4 billion, has been under construction since 2018 and is named after the late Canadian ice hockey player Gordie Howe.Story continues below this ad Canadian and American flags are shown on the Gordie Howe Bridge under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit. (Photo: AP) Why was the opening delayed? Officials have not shared details about the delay. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “At the request of the United States we agreed to delay the opening and take the necessary time to resolve outstanding issues.” He added that there were “a series of technical aspects” that both sides would work through. Discussions between US and Michigan officials had been ongoing for months, and the opening was expected to go ahead before the delay was announced.Story continues below this ad The project had come under focus earlier this year after President Trump demanded changes to its ownership. In February, Trump said Canada should hand over at least half of the bridge’s ownership to the US federal government, along with other demands linked to cross-border trade. Internal differences within the US administration also affected the timeline. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised concerns about proceeding with the opening, according to people familiar with the matter cited by AP. What are officials saying? Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office said the project reflects cooperation between the two countries and that she plans to attend the opening when it takes place.Story continues below this ad “This project is a powerful example of bipartisan and international cooperation,” her office said.US Senator Elissa Slotkin said the delay appeared to be minor. “This is probably the most bipartisan issue in the state of Michigan,” she said, adding that it should be resolved soon. Sandy Baruah, president of the Detroit Regional Chamber, said the delay should be seen in context. “If it opens July 1, August. 1 or September. 1, I’m not going to get overly agitated about it,” he said, calling the project a “long-term play”. Why is the bridge important? Detroit and Windsor form one of the busiest trade corridors between the US and Canada. Millions of vehicles cross the border every year through existing routes such as the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. According to US data, more than 9 million vehicles crossed two major bridges in the region in 2025.The new bridge is expected to improve traffic flow and support trade between the two countries.Story continues below this ad Officials say both existing bridges and the tunnel are operating at full capacity, and the new crossing will help reduce con

The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

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The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

Drug discovery is one of the most expensive failures in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it. A generation of AI startups has promised to fix that — most have made the problem less painful for researchers who are already technically sophisticated enough to use the tools. But SandboxAQ thinks the bottleneck isn’t the models. It’s the interface. The company has teamed up with Anthropic to integrate its scientific AI models directly into Claude — putting powerful drug discovery and materials science tools behind a conversational interface that requires no specialized computing infrastructure to use. Founded roughly five years ago as an Alphabet spinout, SandboxAQ counts Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, as its chairman. The company, which has raised more than $950 million from investors, has built out a number of different business lines, including a cybersecurity business, for instance. One of the more unique things SandboxAQ does, however, is produce large quantitative models, or LQMs. These proprietary models are “physics-grounded,” meaning they’re built on the rules of the physical world rather than patterns in text. They can run quantum chemistry calculations and simulate both molecular dynamics and microkinetics, the study of how chemical reactions unfold at the molecular level. That matters because it tells researchers how candidate molecules are likely to behave before anyone sets foot in a lab. “Trained on real-world lab data and scientific equations, LQMs are AI models engineered for the quantitative economy, a $50+ trillion sector spanning biopharma, financial services, energy, and advanced materials,” the company said in a new release that strongly suggests Sandbox AQ isn’t building another chatbot or code assistant — it’s chasing the economy that AI is supposed to transform. Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs — both well-funded bets on better models — have focused on the science. SandboxAQ is focused on who can actually use it. “For the first time, we have a frontier [quantitative] model on a frontier LLM that someone can access in natural language,” Nadia Harhen, SandboxAQ’s general manager of AI simulation, told TechCrunch. Previously, users of SandboxAQ’s LQMs would have had to provide their own digital infrastructure to run the models. SandboxAQ’s customers tend to be computational scientists, research scientists, or experimentalists. Generally, these people work at large pharmaceutical or industrial companies and are searching for new materials that can become marketable products. “Our customers come to us because they’ve tried all the other software out there, and the complexity of their problem is such that it didn’t work or didn’t yield positive results for them when that translation went to take place in the real world,” said Harhen. When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Lucas is a senior writer at TechCrunch, where he covers artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and startups. He previously covered AI and cybersecurity at Gizmodo. You can contact Lucas by emailing lucas.ropek@techcrunch.com. View Bio

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AI to Power India’s Next Economic Leap: IBM-IndiaAI Study Finds AI Could Add Over $500 Billion to India’s Economy by 2030

AI to Power India’s Next Economic Leap: IBM-IndiaAI Study Finds AI Could Add Over $500 Billion to India’s Economy by 2030 IBM

PM set to embark on 4-nation Europe trip next month; energy security in focus

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PM set to embark on 4-nation Europe trip next month; energy security in focus

Nagesh Kumar, director of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The ongoing West Asia conflict has highlighted India's structural vulnerability to energy shocks, reinforcing the need to reduce dependence on imported crude and accelerate efforts to strengthen energy security, according to an external member of the RBI's rate-setting panel.Nagesh Kumar, who is the director of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development and also a part of the Monetary Policy Committee, said the Indian approach needs to focus both on stepping up oil exploration domestically and hastening the transition to alternative sources."The high dependence on imported crude makes the Indian economy highly vulnerable to volatility in the hydrocarbons market. While India's macroeconomic fundamentals remain resilient, and the Indian economy will continue to remain the fastest growing major economy with a growth rate of nearly 7% in 2026-27, it is time to prioritise energy security and resilience for sustaining the accelerating economic growth trajectory," Mr. Kumar said in an interview with PTI. Published - May 05, 2026 02:24 pm IST

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What next for Mali's military leaders after shock of rebel offensive?

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What next for Mali's military leaders after shock of rebel offensive?

What next for Mali's military leaders after shock of rebel offensive?Just nowMakuochi Okafor,BBC AfricaandMohamed Ibrahim,BBC ArabicAFP via Getty ImagesTuareg separatist fighters have taken over the city of Kidal after Russian and Malian troops withdrewIt is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali's capital, Bamako, assassinate the defence minister and seize control of northern areas.Residents in different cities across the country woke to gunfire and explosions on Saturday - attacks which an alliance of two groups - the...

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