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Largest IPO ever: Musk suggests timing SpaceX IPO with his 55th birthday, Jupiter-Venus alignment

SpaceX is looking to raise as much as $50 billion in the offering at a valuation of about $1.5 trillion, the FT reported, which would make it the largest IPO in history.

Crime & punishment, Taliban adaptation: 15 days’ jail for beating wife, only if there are ‘bruises’

New ‘criminal code’ in Afghanistan also legalises ‘Caste-like slavery’, prescribes flog-at-sight for ‘sinners’ & proposes 3 months’ jail for wife visiting kin without ‘permission’.

Indian-American businessman Vinod Khosla & Elon Musk trade barbs on X over ‘WAGA’ jibe

Khosla reposted an old Musk tweet, accused him of backing 'white America great again' and urged Tesla, SpaceX and X staff to quit. Musk hit back as well.

World still falling behind on clean water & sanitation, says UN. ‘Millions of lives lost each year’

Nearly 90% of countries have policies for water, sanitation, but fewer than 13% have enough funds & trained staff to fully implement them, says a 2025 UN report.

In FTA, India offers EU auto quota six times larger than the UK deal

The free trade agreement will gradually allow up to 250,000 European-made vehicles to enter India at preferential duty rates— far above the 37,000-unit quota extended to the UK.

Trump’s US officially exits Paris climate deal: What does it mean for rest of the world?

Climate organisations will have to grapple with the loss of billions of dollars of US funding — unless other nations or philanthropies step in to fill the void.

With discounts & no US deal, Russia oil flows to India prove unexpectedly resilient

Flow is very unlikely to drop to near-zero as many had forecast after the US blacklisted Russian crude giants Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC.

What would it take for a European reset to succeed?

Insulted and bullied by Donald Trump, European leaders are asking where they go from here. The right choice isn’t to kneel or fight back, but to disengage.

A baby’s death & mother’s suicide rock Bangladesh as Awami League student leader denied funeral parole

Kaniz Suborna Swarnali ended her life after killing her infant son. She had reportedly exhausted every legal avenue to secure the release of her husband, a leader of Chhatra League.

Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: ‘He’s vanity itself’

His narcissism, self-obsession, lust for flattery and absolute indifference to the welfare or interests of others echo Germany’s last kaiser.

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Taliban uses Sharia to justify its criminal code. It’s not new to me as a Pasmanda Muslim

As someone who has spent years speaking about caste, hierarchy, and inequality within Muslim societies, I cannot ignore the pattern anymore.

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.