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SubscriberWrites: Energy Transition – Where do we stand?

It is only a matter of time before every house will generate and meet its own power requirement. So will industries, writes Shantha Kumar.

Scientists discover hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza, which can lead to further findings

Unfinished corridor was likely built to relieve pyramid’s weight on either the main entrance or on another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, say Egyptian antiquities officials.

Al Qaeda’s new leader Seif al-Adel has $10 million US bounty on his head, says UN report

Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer, was indicted & charged in 1998 for bombing US embassies in Tanzania & Kenya killing 224 civilians and wounding roughly 5,000.

Egypt and India elevate ties to declare strategic alliance, sign 5 MoUs

PM Modi announced the ties at a joint press conference after holding talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi who is on a three-day visit to India.

At COP27, India unveils long-term strategy to reach net zero, prioritises energy & food security

Called the 'Long Term Low Emission Development Strategy', the 121-page document focuses on 'strategic transition' of several high-emission sectors, namely electricity and transport.

Germany warns its COP27 delegation of Egyptian spies at the climate summit

In an email, German federal police warned delegates of 'overt & covert surveillance through photography and videography' by Egyptian agents, according to a Reuters' source.

Climate challenge and ‘Chinese-style modernisation’ aren’t at odds with each other for Xi Jinping

China and India’s approach to international cooperation may appear to be different in multiple spheres, but when it comes to climate change, there are many areas of convergence.

British PM Sunak to raise Egyptian-British hunger strike’s case at the COP27 climate summit

Abd el-Fattah, who rose to prominence with Egypt's 2011 uprising, has been on hunger strike for 219 days against his detention and prison conditions.

Influential cleric Sheikh Qaradawi, supporter of Arab Spring revolts, dies at 96

Born in Egypt in 1926, Qaradawi spent much of his life in Qatar, where he became one of the most recognisable and influential Sunni Muslim clerics in the Arab world.

With Rajnath Singh in Cairo, India-Egypt pick up Nehru-Nasser thread left off in the ’60s

In the 1960s, an IAF team was in Cairo to make fighter jets. Both India and Egypt knew the importance of a domestic defence industrial base — that bond is restarting.

On Camera

Takaichi channels Abe & wins over Trump

Trump calls Takaichi 'one of the greatest prime ministers' & offers her 'anything you want'.

Mumbai’s been driving India’s data centre market, but water shortage, power demand pose risks

According to a report by Macquarie, India’s data centre market is estimated to double by 2027. India currently has 1.4 gigawatts of operational data centre capacity.

Navy Chief calls for collective solutions to maritime challenges in ‘complex & dynamic’ Indo-Pacific

At 11th edition of Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue in New Delhi, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said there are three major currents shaping this maritime 'dynaxity'.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.