Shivanand B Bhushi

On May 11, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing Rath's murder had arrested three people before widening its probe across multiple states. The cops suspected that hired sharpshooters were brought in from outside West Bengal to carry out the killing with military-style precision. A key breakthrough came after investigators traced a UPI payment made at the Nivedita Setu toll plaza on May 6.

The party has bought itself time after recent electoral gains. Yet the road to 2029 will test whether Congress can reinvent itself — or remain a diminished player in national politics.

Elon Musk has lost his $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI. A nine-person Oakland jury has unanimously cleared OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Microsoft in Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit, ruling the Tesla CEO sued too late. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed the case on the spot. Musk had accused them of "stealing a charity" he co-founded in 2015. The verdict clears OpenAI's path to a planned $1 trillion IPO.

A rare Bundibugyo Ebola strain has infected an American doctor in the Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting the WHO to declare a public health emergency. The outbreak has spread to Uganda, with health experts citing delayed response due to initial misidentification of the virus. The US is enhancing screening and entry restrictions to prevent further spread.

One of the first states to implement a two-child policy, Andhra Pradesh, now wants to give families Rs 30,000 for a third child and Rs 40,000 for a fourth. Is reversing its progress going to be worth it?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told WSJ at the World Economic Forum in Davos that software is heading toward being "cheap, maybe essentially free," warning that whole careers built around writing code may not survive the AI shift. The Anthropic chief executive also predicted SaaS incumbents leaning on code complexity as a moat could "go bust" as ServiceNow, Snowflake and Microsoft stocks slide and Anthropic eyes a $900 billion valuation.