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.

Tamim Iqbal is the new BCB president, and no, that isn’t a headline from a satirical cricket fiction novel. It’s real, it happened, and honestly, given how Bangladesh cricket administration has carried on these past few months, it was probably the only appointment that didn’t require a probe committee to sort out.

SEBI’s 109-page interim order against Rajesh Exports alleges the Bengaluru gold giant inflated nearly its entire consolidated revenue, a staggering ₹15.15 lakh crore, between FY21 and FY25, with unverifiable overseas subsidiaries at the heart of the scandal.

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 RBI Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% on June 5, 2026, for the second consecutive time, as Governor Sanjay Malhotra cited rising crude oil prices, a record-low rupee, and geopolitical heat from West Asia as reasons to sit tight and watch the fire.

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.

Just two months after lifting the T20 World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav has been removed as India’s T20I captain and dropped from the squad altogether. BCCI, selectors, and Gautam Gambhir have decided it’s time to move on.

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.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s IPL 2026 awards haul is the stuff of legend, or at least the stuff of a 15-year-old who clearly didn’t get the memo that cricket is a game of patience.

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.