India as a Global Growth Engine is rewriting the script of the world economy in 2026, while many advanced nations struggle with sluggish growth.

French beauty behemoth L’Oréal has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Innovist, the Gurugram-based D2C startup behind Bare Anatomy and Chemist at Play, in what could be the biggest deal in India’s digital-first beauty landscape.

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI, leaving Google just 18 months after a $2.7 billion deal brought him back. The Gemini co-lead and transformer co-inventor’s move is the biggest AI talent heist of 2026.

SpaceX market value surpasses Amazon just four days after its historic $135-per-share IPO on Nasdaq, as shares soared over 55%, valuing Elon Musk’s rocket empire at nearly $2.8 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire.

WIPO ranks Jio Platforms in the global top 20 of PCT patent applicants for 2025, with a jaw-dropping 320-place jump. The Reliance-backed tech giant now stands alongside Huawei, Apple, and Google, and yes, it’s the only Indian name on that list.

Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on Nasdaq at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation, a number so absurd it almost sounds like a typo.

The Pentagon has officially redesignated Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, and over a dozen other major Chinese firms as “Chinese military companies”, a blacklist that keeps growing even as Washington and Beijing sip tea together.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent an open letter to Vladimir Putin on June 4, proposing a face-to-face meeting in a neutral country and a full ceasefire during negotiations, after over four years of war and more than 1.37 million Russian casualties.

The Del Vecchio inheritance dispute, a four-year soap opera played out in courtrooms from Milan to Luxembourg over the fortune behind EssilorLuxottica, has taken a significant turn, with two of the billionaire heirs reaching a provisional agreement to stand down from legal warfare.

The USTR has proposed 12.5% additional duties on India and 53 other countries for allegedly failing to ban goods made with forced labour and the timing couldn’t be more awkward, with US trade delegates literally in New Delhi as the report dropped.

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable listed company after an AI-driven 14% single-day surge pushed its market cap above ¥48 trillion, ending Toyota’s 22-year reign at the top of Japan’s corporate pile.

Wockhardt’s Zaynich FDA approval has made history as the first New Chemical Entity fully developed by an Indian pharma company to receive a US FDA nod. With an 89% efficacy rate against drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and eyes on a $9 billion antibiotics market, India’s pharma ambitions just got a whole lot louder.

India has officially confirmed a BrahMos missile deal with Vietnam, while the BrahMos missile Indonesia deal is reportedly in its final stages, making Southeast Asia the newest fan club of the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile. Here’s why everyone wants a piece of it.

For nearly a decade, Narendra Modi built his foreign policy around a single goal: making Pakistan a pariah. Today, the plan has gone spectacularly wrong.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI after closing a landmark $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation — nearly tripling its worth from just three months ago and reshaping the global AI investment landscape ahead of a widely anticipated IPO.

A rare albino buffalo weighing nearly 700 kilograms, hilariously nicknamed “Donald Trump buffalo Bangladesh” for its striking blond hair, has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice following last-minute government intervention. The story of how an animal with such an absurd name ended up at the national zoo is everything you didn’t know you needed this May.

Taiwan stock market overtakes India with $4.95 trillion market cap, becoming the world’s fifth-largest equity market. TSMC’s AI boom drives the surge past India’s $4.92 trillion.

What began as an audacious White House ceremony in September 2020 has evolved into one of the most contentious diplomatic initiatives reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics. The Abraham Accords brought four Arab nations into formal recognition with Israel, a breakthrough many hailed as historic, while critics argue it abandoned Palestinian aspirations.

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as the father of Japan’s convenience store industry, died of heart failure on May 18. He was 93.

Kevin Warsh has officially taken the helm as the 11th chair of the Federal Reserve, stepping into one of the world’s most influential economic positions. His swearing-in ceremony at the White House marks a significant transition for the central bank, which now faces mounting inflation and intense political scrutiny.