India is not the next superpower.
It is what power looks like when the superpower model stops being enough.
๐ Strategic Brief | @THEEURASIATIMES
The Iran war exposed more than the fragility of West Asia. It exposed the bankruptcy of an old assumption: that influence belongs only to states that choose one camp, lock themselves inside it, and call that strength.
India does not operate that way. It works with the United States and Russia, Israel and Iran, the Gulf and the wider Asian space, not because it is evasive, but because strategic autonomy is not hesitation. It is leverage.
That is why Chabahar matters.
Not as a port, but as access.
That is why Gulf ties matter.
Not as optics, but as depth.
That is why defence production matters.
Not as prestige, but as insulation.
Too many still ask whether India will โchoose a sideโ. That question already belongs to a fading order.
The states that still matter are no longer just the ones that can impose.
They are the ones no serious outcome can be assembled without.
India is not neutral.
It is not aligned in the old sense.
It is building a position that runs through the fault lines rather than collapsing into one of them.
Not balance.
Architecture.
Not a superpower.
A connector power.
Not a state that dictates order.
A state no order can be built without.
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We've been quietly building something over the past year - applying our full-stack AI to problems of national consequence and complex enterprises. Now we're scaling the vertical behind it - Chanakya.
Listen at Scale is a joint initiative by Sarvam, @EkStep_Org, and @ai4bharat to deploy our multilingual Voice AI agents at population scale across India.
Hundreds of millions of people cannot navigate apps or text-based systems, and traditional outreach only ever broadcast at them without listening back. This initiative was built to change that.
In just 31 days, working with 20 partner organisations in healthcare, agriculture, governance, and skilling, our multilingual Voice AI agents reached 50 lakh Indians and logged 74 lakh minutes of real two-way conversation.
Read the full report: https://t.co/ut3n6xSkz3
Indiaโs AI Impact Summit Just Became the Worldโs AI Power Table ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฅ
India to host the biggest names shaping global AI policy and infrastructure. This isnโt symbolic... itโs strategic.
> Sundar Pichai โ CEO, Google
> Sam Altman โ CEO, OpenAI
> Jensen Huang โ Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
> Demis Hassabis โ CEO, Google DeepMind
> Dario Amodei โ CEO, Anthropic
> Arthur Mensch โ CEO, Mistral AI
> Bill Gates โ Co-founder, Microsoft
> Brad Smith โ President, Microsoft
> Shantanu Narayen โ CEO, Adobe
> Julie Sweet โ CEO, Accenture
> Cristiano Amon โ CEO, Qualcomm
> Matthew Prince โ CEO, Cloudflare
When the architects of compute, models, chips, and cloud all show up in one place... that place becomes the center of gravity.
๐ India isnโt just participating in the AI race anymore... Itโs positioning itself to shape the rules.
๐จ BIG WIN FOR SOVEREIGN AI ๐ฎ๐ณโก
Indiaโs Sarvam AI sets a new benchmark under the IndiaAI Mission
Made in India Sarvam AI has outperformed Gemini and ChatGPT in OCR, Indian language document reading, text to speech, and AI voice generation
๐น Built and trained entirely in India
๐น Govt backed access to 4,000 GPUs for 6 months
๐น 70B parameter foundational model trained from scratch
๐น Data, compute, tuning and deployment all domestic
Focus areas:
๐น OCR, speech and multilingual reasoning
๐น Enterprise and population scale workflows
๐น Three specialised model variants in development
Government grade deployment:
๐น Voice based AI for Aadhaar services with UIDAI
๐น Designed for rural and low literacy users
Strategic impact:
๐น Reduces reliance on foreign AI models
๐น AI built for Indian scale and realities
๐น Foundation for national governance and public services
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๐จ Indiaโs 5th generation fighter jet programme moves ahead as Tata, L&T and Bharat Forge are shortlisted for the AMCA project.
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Piyush Goyal Clears the Air on the IndiaโUS Trade Deal... โก
> No agreement has been signed.
> No joint statement has been issued.
> No framework text is on record.
> Indiaโs red lines remain intact... farmers, MSMEs, dairy, agriculture.
๐ What this actually signals
> Despite claims and hints coming from Washington, India has deliberately avoided using words like โsigned,โ โfinalised,โ or โinked.โ
> There is no confirmation on sensitive issues such as energy commitments or restrictions on Russian oil purchases.
๐ Until signatures appear on paper... there is no IndiaโUS trade deal.
๐ Follow @_TheTathya for more updates.
All of the worldโs billionaires โ by country (2025) ๐๐ฐ
๐บ๐ธ United States โ 924โจ๐จ๐ณ China โ 470โจ๐ฎ๐ณ India โ 188โจ๐ฉ๐ช Germany โ 156โจ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom โ 91โจ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland โ 84โจ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong โ 76โจ๐ฎ๐น Italy โ 61โจ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore โ 55โจ๐น๐ผ Taiwan โ 51โจ๐ง๐ท Brazil โ 47โจ๐จ๐ฆ Canada โ 47โจ๐ซ๐ท France โ 46โจ๐ฆ๐บ Australia โ 43โจ๐ฏ๐ต Japan โ 41โจ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel โ 36โจ๐ช๐ธ Spain โ 32โจ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea โ 31โจ๐ธ๐ช Sweden โ 31โจ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia โ 27โจ๐น๐ญ Thailand โ 25โจ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico โ 22โจ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia โ 19โจ๐ต๐ญ Philippines โ 15โจ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia โ 14โจ๐ฆ๐ช UAE โ 14โจ๐ณ๐ด Norway โ 11โจ๐จ๐ฑ Chile โ 8โจ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand โ 8โจ๐ฆ๐น Austria โ 8โจ๐ง๐ช Belgium โ 8โจ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark โ 8โจ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland โ 7โจ๐จ๐ด Colombia โ 7โจ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland โ 7โจ๐ต๐ฑ Poland โ 7โจ๐ Other countries โ 193
Source: UBS / PwC Billionaires Databaseโจ@stats_feed
US Tariff Rates on Various Nations :
India : 18%
Vietnam : 20%
Taiwan : 20%
South Africa : 20%
Philippines : 19%
Indonesia : 19%
European Union : 15%
Canada : 35%
Bangladesh : 20%
Pakistan : 19%
Sri Lanka : 20%
Switzerland : 39%
Thailand : 19%
South Korea : 15%
China: 40%
US Tariff Rates on Various Nations :
India : 18%
Vietnam : 20%
Taiwan : 20%
South Africa : 20%
Philippines : 19%
Indonesia : 19%
European Union : 15%
Canada : 35%
Bangladesh : 20%
Pakistan : 19%
Sri Lanka : 20%
Switzerland : 39%
Thailand : 19%
South Korea : 15%
China: 40%
Wonderful to speak with my dear friend President Trump today. Delighted that Made in India products will now have a reduced tariff of 18%. Big thanks to President Trump on behalf of the 1.4 billion people of India for this wonderful announcement.
When two large economies and the worldโs largest democracies work together, it benefits our people and unlocks immense opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation.
President Trumpโs leadership is vital for global peace, stability, and prosperity. India fully supports his efforts for peace.
I look forward to working closely with him to take our partnership to unprecedented heights.
@POTUS@realDonaldTrump
๐ฐ G7 vs BRICS โ GDP projections for 2026
G7 TOTAL: $54.5T
โจ1๏ผ๐บ๐ธ United States โ $31.8Tโจ2๏ผ๐ฉ๐ช Germany โ $5.3Tโจ3๏ผ๐ฏ๐ต Japan โ $4.5Tโจ4๏ผ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom โ $4.2Tโจ5๏ผ๐ซ๐ท France โ $3.6Tโจ6๏ผ๐ฎ๐น Italy โ $2.7Tโจ7๏ผ๐จ๐ฆ Canada โ $2.4T
BRICS TOTAL: $34.8T
โจ1๏ผ๐จ๐ณ China โ $20.7Tโจ2๏ผ๐ฎ๐ณ India โ $4.5Tโจ3๏ผ๐ท๐บ Russia โ $2.5Tโจ4๏ผ๐ง๐ท Brazil โ $2.3Tโจ5๏ผ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia โ $1.6Tโจ6๏ผ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia โ $1.3Tโจ7๏ผ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates โ $0.6Tโจ8๏ผ๐ฎ๐ท Iran โ $0.4Tโจ9๏ผ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa โ $0.4Tโจ10๏ผ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt โ $0.4T
11. ๐ช๐น Ethiopia โ $0.1T
G7 = incumbents
BRICS = growth engine
Which bloc dominates the 2030s?