CHIEF of Air Staff (CoAS) Air Chief Marshall A P Singh, just last week, repeated his concerns about lack of timely deliveries of military equipment, and what he termed the “futility” of contracts without on-time delivery adversely affecting defence preparedness. CoAS was reiterating a favourite refrain over the past year, mostly targeting Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the prime manufacturer and supplier of military aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

LOW oxygen levels (Hypoxia) can be a problem but surprisingly also beneficial at times. New medical research has revealed that antibiotics, essential to combat bacterial infections, can inadvertently promote potentially lethal fungal overgrowth in the gut due to low oxygen levels. This also highlights the influence of the molecular environment on drug action. Antibiotics disrupt the gut's delicate microbial balance, leading to low oxygen levels and promoting the expansion of disease-causing fungi like Candida albicans.

THE Trump administration has launched an all-out trade war to isolate China and bring manufacturing, hollowed out through decades of outsourcing, and its associated jobs back to the US. While the Trump Tariffs and tantrums hog the headlines, China has quietly gone about implementing its long-term vision to transform its manufacturing sector and economy. Few narratives encapsulate global economic shifts like the story of China’s rapid automation revolution.

TWO sectors, namely international aviation and international shipping, each representing around 3 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have remained outside the purview of international negotiations and treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC, as well as negotiations and emissions control regimes under it, regulate actions by government parties as the only entities that can be held accountable under international treaties.

WE are not talking here about Nikolai Tesla, the genius who invented the AC motor and whose design is the basis for almost all electric motors today, including electric vehicles (EVs). This article is about Tesla, the car company that has become synonymous with Elon Musk. Tesla's share price, which defied the laws of gravity for years, is now on a steep downward trajectory in the last three months, losing about half its market value over the last three months. Statista notes that it has lost the title of being the world's leader in producing EVs to BYD, the Chinese EV maker.