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Friday, March 20, 2026
TopicLethal Autonomous Weapons

Topic: Lethal Autonomous Weapons

We can’t reach consensus on killer robots ban. History says it could be next major arms race

James Dawes -
Autonomous weapons killed human beings for the first time last year in the Libyan civil war. There's still a debate on their ban.

The one job that will disappear by 2062 — the job of fighting wars

Toby Walsh -
In 2062: The World That AI Made, Toby Walsh writes about the dangerous scenario of lethal autonomous weapons getting to decide who dies and who lives.

On Camera

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Opinion

Iran and Israel weren’t always enemies. In fact, they were allies

Swasti Rao -
Israel even helped source American defence equipment for Iran, who learnt from Tel Aviv about drones against Soviet air defences in Syria.

CEC Gyanesh Kumar is a constitutional failure. Damage is not procedural, it is existential

What the Iran crisis means for middle powers

Economy

Telangana’s Rs 3.24 lakh crore budget bets on rural push, welfare and infra ahead of GHMC polls

Deepika Amirapu -
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.

Defence

Tracked: How a sailor’s 35-minute workout on deck gave away exact location of French aircraft carrier

Vaibhav Pant -
A fitness run logged on a Strava‑linked watch by a French sailor has revealed the movement of nuclear‑powered Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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