ON MAY 1, 2026, the United States Department of Defence finalised classified artificial intelligence contracts with eight corporations: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, SpaceX, and the startup Reflection AI. These agreements will deploy large language models on classified military networks. The one major AI laboratory that was excluded, Anthropic, was dropped because the Trump administration blacklisted it for insisting on safety guardrails.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is meeting from 22-24 May in HKS Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi, has unanimously adopted the following resolution against US threats to Cuba:
THE West Asian war has pushed world oil prices well beyond $100 per barrel. The Indian government, which had kept domestic prices of oil products unchanged until the elections to several state legislatures had been completed, has now started raising their prices; it has already raised prices in three rounds and is no doubt going to raise them further. And a large number of economists, not all belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party stable, have seen such “passing on” of higher world oil prices to domestic consumers as the obvious and natural thing to do.
Himachal Pradesh is witnessing a rise in workers’, peasants’, women’s, and people’s struggles across sectors and regions. From hydro project-affected farmers in Luhri and dairy producers in Datnagar to NHPC workers, sanitation workers, ambulance employees, Anganwadi and Mid-Day Meal workers, and women-led healthcare protests in Shimla, social unrest is spreading across the state.
The paper leaks in the NEET UG Examination (medical undergraduate admissions) have pushed the future of nearly 22.79 lakh students into deep uncertainty, anxiety, and distress. Ongoing CBI investigations have exposed a disturbing network of organised malpractice operating across Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Kashmir. Under the guise of coaching institutes, “guess papers,” and “mock tests,” question papers were allegedly sold through a well-coordinated multi-state racket.
ON the heels of the results of five assembly elections, Narendra Modi was overjoyed in celebration. He aggressively asserted that “this is not just an electoral shift, but a change in the people’s mindset”. Since the LDF had lost Kerala and BJP climbed to office in West Bengal, this was the moment for ideological consolidation of this electoral ascendency.
THE rapid, viral rise of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) across India’s digital landscape warrants a closer look. The movement exploded as a fierce, satirical counter-mobilisation to oral observations made by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant during a Supreme Court hearing.