The global “order of cooperation” has been supplanted by “might makes right”, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday (February 26, 2026), blaming Russia for overturning territorial principles in its invasion of Ukraine, and the United States for weakening the United Nations and multilateralism.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 faced a major controversy when Galgotias University was accused of presenting a Chinese-made robot as an original invention. The incident led to the university’s immediate eviction from the event and sparked a national debate over academic transparency and the integrity of “Make in India” claims.
The Galgotia University incident at the AI Impact Summit, where they falsely claimed to have developed a Robodog and possibly even the Soccer Drone at their Centre of Excellence, brings to the fore the larger malaise of mediocre or ” copied” research being passed off as innovation.
A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Vice-Minister Sun Haiyan, on Tuesday (January 13, 2026) met RashtriyaSwayamsewakSangh (RSS) general secretary DattatreyaHosabale in New Delhi.
India has now aligned with the Taliban, Pakistan, China, and Russia in opposing the U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to regain control of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The announcement comes days ahead of the scheduled visit of Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to New Delhi, a historic first for a senior Taliban diplomat.
The relationship between the United States and India is being strained and the matter in the middle of the storm is oil. Washington displeased with the fact that the New Delhi is still purchasing crude oil with Russia, and the Trump administration has reacted with hefty trade sanctions. However, as verbal abuse goes on between the two democracies, a single global power, China, has decided to remain silent.
US President Donald Trump accused India and China of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine, a charge that he made on September 23, 2025, when addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that a group of prominent American business leaders, including Lachlan Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell, would invest in a proposed deal for TikTok. The deal aims to keep the popular social media app running in the United States by transferring its American assets from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to U.S. ownership.
Pakistan’s latest attempt to brand the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its armed wing, the Majeed Brigade, as terrorist organisations at the United Nations has run into a roadblock. The United States, the United Kingdom, and France have placed what is called a “technical hold” on the proposal, saying that the BLA cannot be linked directly to global terror networks like Al Qaeda or ISIS — a requirement under the UN’s sanctions committee rules.
In a formal notification to the US Congress this week, US President Donald Trump has formally designated India as among the major drug transit and illicit drug producing nations in the world; alongside 22 other countries.
