Container Rooms, Comebacks and a New Generation Ready to Take the Fight to Asia India’s preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 have entered an unusual final stretch. There are elite athletes, world champions, Olympic medallists and defending champions. There are also — rather surprisingly — shipping containers. Yes, containers.

India at Asian Games 2026: 503 Athletes Carry a Bigger Sporting Ambition to Japan From established champions to more than 300 Asian Games debutants. A new generation of Indian sport is heading to Aichi-Nagoya with experience to gain, expectations to manage and a rather large scoreboard waiting in Japan. When

Sethuraman Panchanathan Makes History With NAE’s Bueche Award A child standing in a queue outside the American Center in Chennai in 1969 could hardly have known that the small grey rocks behind a glass display would eventually influence the direction of his life. Those were pieces of the Moon brought

India’s Semiconductor Moment: From Chip Design Powerhouse to Global Manufacturing Hub For decades, India was exceptionally good at designing technology — but much of the physical hardware powering that technology was manufactured somewhere else. That equation is beginning to change. India’s semiconductor strategy is moving from design and engineering capability

Can a House Really Be Built in Three Days? Imagine replacing a construction site full of bricks, shuttering, scaffolding and dozens of workers with a giant robotic printer. Instead of ink, it extrudes specially formulated concrete. Instead of paper, it follows a digital CAD design. Layer by layer, a building

Bharat Innovates 2026: Can India Turn Deep Research Into Global Technology? The harder problem has often been what happens after the invention. Bharat Innovates 2026 is attempting to tackle precisely that gap—taking research-born technologies out of laboratories and connecting them with investors, industry and international markets. For decades, India’s technology

Working for a New York Boss From Pune: The Real Rules of India, US Remote Work At 8:30 in the morning, Manhattan is waking up. At the same moment, Pune is already well into its evening. For an Indian professional working remotely for a New York-based employer, the international border

When AI Gets a Wallet: Is India Ready to Let Agents Shop, Book and Pay? The next big step in artificial intelligence may not be another chatbot. It may be an AI that actually does things for you—including spending your money. Imagine telling an AI assistant: “Find me the cheapest

Indians in Australia 2026: A Growing Community Living Between Opportunity and Reality Good universities. A strong economy. Professional opportunities. A multicultural society. A large Indian community. And, for many migrants, the possibility of building a long-term life in a country very different from India. But the Australia of 2026 is

Indian Culture in America: How a Community Is Preserving Its Roots While Shaping American Life Walk through parts of New Jersey, Texas, California, Illinois or New York and it is possible to encounter an India that exists thousands of kilometres from the subcontinent. There may be an Indian grocery store,

How Indian-Origin Leaders Reached the Top of Global Business A boy growing up in Chennai becomes the head of one of the world’s most influential technology companies. An engineer from Hyderabad rises to lead Microsoft. A woman from Kolhapur reaches the top of Chanel. A Kanpur-born engineer helps shape the

Depiction of Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin A map normally sits quietly on a wall, in a textbook or inside a geography application. But sometimes a map becomes foreign policy. That is exactly what has happened after India raised concerns over the way Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin appear on