Author: Chahat Shrivastava

In an aggressive increase in the ongoing conflict, Russia recently allegedly fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine for the first time since the invasion in 2022. Ukrainian authorities report that the missile was launched from Russia’s Astrakhan region late Wednesday, targeting Dnipro, a city in Ukraine’s central-eastern region. The missile strike led to the destruction of industrial sites and a rehabilitation center for disabled persons in Dnipro. It is not entirely clear the severity of any damages but two people were reported as having been injured. Ukraine’s Air Force stated that the attack concerned critical infrastructures and enterprises…

Following closely to expectations, Baidu Inc., China’s largest internet search engine, posted a 3 percent dip in its third-quarter revenue due to a weak advertising environment due to a weakened economy. However, the good news is that the American depositary shares of Baidu increased by about 1% in early trading on Thursday. Accounting for 90% of Baidu’s revenues, online advertising sales fell by 4% and amounted to 18.8 billion yuan ($2.6 billion) for the quarter. This was fairly close to analysts’ estimates of 18.89 billion yuan. Also, a significant number of Baidu’s advertising clients are SMBs, meaning that the company…

On the eve of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, a major controversy came up. Opposition BJP accused Supriya Sule, a leader of NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and Nana Patole, the Maharashtra Congress president, of involvement in a bitcoin scam. These kinds of allegations practically originated with the claims made by former IPS official Ravindranath Patil. He accused the two of embezzling bitcoins from a cryptocurrency scam in 2018 to use in election matters. Not just this, Sudhanshu Trivedi, a BJP Spokesperson, also played some alleged audio during a press conference. The clips also suggested that Sule and Patole were involved in…