The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.
On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.
Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta-owned copper mining company CopperTech Metals Inc, which is domiciled in the United States, has announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its proposed initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Scott Bessent said Washington is working with European and Gulf allies to target Iranian financial networks, freeze assets and disrupt funding channels linked to Tehran.
Recently, the New York State University in the US initiated a programme called ‘NYU in real life’, to promote a student-led culture change of spending less time online and more in living life in person, and creating together a ‘collective effervescence’.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Aberdeen and Edinburgh to protest the arrival of US President Donald Trump, who is in Scotland for a five-day visit.
Efforts to end the relentless siege of Gaza have been set back by the abrupt end to peace talks in Qatar.
US President Donald Trump’s new roadmap for artificial intelligence promises speed, strength, and supremacy.
The National Medical Commission (NMC), sole body monitoring medical education across states and Union Territories (UTs) in India, has advised Indian students seeking admission to foreign medical institutes/ universities to strictly avoid admission in undergraduate medical courses in three US-based and one Uzbekistan-based institutes.
The new trade agreement between the United States and Japan ~ hailed by President Donald Trump as the “largest trade deal in history” ~ may be hyperbolically framed, but its significance for Asia and the global economy is hard to overstate.
