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Opel’s next electric SUV could use core EV architecture and battery tech from China’s Leapmotor. The SUV may be designed in Germany and built in Spain, but its most important EV hardware could come from China. This could be the start of more Stellantis models using Chinese EV tech under familiar European badges. If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s what Opel seems to be doing with its next electric SUV, which is expected to use EV tech from China’s Leapmotor. Opel’s parent company, Stellantis, has a significant stake in Leapmotor, which enables it to use its technology in…

Capcom’s “Pragmata” is one of the most well-received sci-fi video games of 2026, with critics and players unanimously praising its soulful storyline, vivid environments, and captivating characters. The engaging adventure narrative is centered around the systems engineer spaceman Hugh Williams, who links up with a resourceful robotic girl named Diana, and together they join forces to survive a lethal standoff at a lunar research station controlled by a rogue AI.Directed by Yonghee Cho and written by Haruo Murata, “Pragmata” launched on April 17 for PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. The unlikely pair of characters must…

The IAF’s Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team performed aerial manoeuvres during the Somnath Amrut Mahotsav at the Somnath Temple on Monday.As part of the celebrations, Narendra Modi participated in the Vishesh Maha Puja, followed by the Kumbhabhishek and Dhvajarohan ceremonies, marking the consecration rituals and the hoisting of the temple flag.PM Modi on Monday offered prayers at the Somnath Temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas, as part of the Somnath Amrut Mahotsav commemorating 75 years since the inauguration of the restored temple by India’s first President, Rajendra Prasad.Before entering the temple premises, the prime minister paid tribute to the statue of…

The finest backhanded compliment I receive, and the one I receive most often, is: “Good piece; I actually understood this one.” A title like the one above is, on that evidence, an act of commercial self-harm. It guarantees that many readers will not open the essay, and that some of the brave ones will not survive this paragraph. But stay with me. This one is genuinely parseable. It is about where my investment thesis could be, not merely early, exaggerated, or temporarily embarrassed, but dead wrong. It is also, mercifully, not one of my heavier expeditions into the epistemic and…

PM Narendra Modi called for judicious use of fuel, postponement of gold purchases and foreign travel, among other measures, to strengthen the economy. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he urged citizens to postpone gold purchases, reduce fuel consumption and avoid foreign travel, calling the appeal evidence of “failure”.”Yesterday, Modi ji asked the public to make sacrifices—don’t buy gold, don’t go abroad, use less petrol, cut down on fertiliser and cooking oil, take the metro, work from home. These aren’t sermons—they’re proof of failure,” Rahul Gandhi said in…

Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable economic growth rate of around 5% lies a structural anomaly carrying significant systemic risks. The accumulation of central government debt, now edging toward the psychological threshold of 10 quadrillion rupiah (US$572 billion), has pushed the country into a phase where the budgetary discipline long touted by policymakers is beginning to show serious cracks. Historically, Indonesia has been praised for adhering to the statutory fiscal deficit ceiling of 3%. Yet by 2026, the legitimacy of that praise is beginning to erode as financing…

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister Thalapathy Vijay’s swearing-in ceremony triggered a controversy after the state song ‘Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu’ was relegated to third place after the National Song and National Anthem during the event.This raised eyebrows as government events in Tamil Nadu begin with the rendition of the state song and conclude with the National Anthem. Watch Vijay Faces Political Storm After Vande Mataram Played Before Tamil Thaai VaazhthuThis comes as the Union Cabinet approved a proposal to amend the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to place ‘Vande Mataram’ on par with the national anthem ‘Jana Gana…

A Dutch expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, docked in Tenerife on Sunday after weeks adrift with three deaths and eight hantavirus cases on board. The strain involved is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to transmit between humans. The World Health Organization has called the cluster serious but assessed the global risk as low. A hantavirus scare is not a pandemic. That is precisely why it is useful. When a frightening pathogen surfaces, public conversation usually swings between panic and dismissal. Hantaviruses deserve neither. They can be deadly, but in most settings, they do not spread the way…

Representative image (PTI) NEW DELHI: Daily wage earners accounted for 31% of all suicide deaths in 2024, the highest share in a decade (2015–2024), according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. A total of 52,910 daily wage earners died by suicide during the year, marking a sharp rise from the previous peak of 26.4% recorded in 2022.Casual labourers, a category that largely includes daily wage earners, constituted nearly one-fifth of and the biggest share of India’s total workforce. The total number of suicide deaths in the country rose to 1.7 lakh in 2024, compared with 1.34 lakh…

When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the choreography will almost certainly be familiar: firm handshakes, oversized rhetoric, carefully calibrated symbolism and declarations about “historic” economic opportunities. But beneath the spectacle will lie a much more consequential reality for Asia. Trump’s return to office has not produced a coherent new Indo-Pacific doctrine so much as a louder, more transactional version of America’s existing strategic anxieties. Washington continues to frame China as its principal competitor, but increasingly through the language of tariffs, industrial rivalry and economic punishment rather than sustained alliance-building or…