Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the Champion of Norway Chess 2026! With an incredible win on demand against Vincent Keymer in the final round, Praggnanandhaa wins one of the strongest tournaments of the year scoring 18/30 points, 2 classical wins against World no.1 Magnus Carlsen, and an incredible 4-game Winstreak to finish the event!
A huge congratulations to Praggnanandhaa, his team and his family- this is undoubtedly the biggest achievement of his career so far, and what a way to get there!
Graphic: Anmol Bhargav
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I visited the southernmost tip of India.
I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.
And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.
The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.
Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.
They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.
What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.
Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.
I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.
#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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Me: Can I call you a nerd?
@sidhant_sarthak: I would call myself a dork, a less knowledgeable nerd
The best of us don’t have this level of self-awareness. Fav chat this year cos we all need reminders that we don’t know everything & we need to stay curious
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@Akshat_World Unrelated Q: With upcoming IPOs in the US, do you expect other good stocks to be available at a discount after everyone draws down to buy IPOs?
Guess who we had in the @newslaundry studio today. I had the most fabulous time chatting with @sidhant_sarthak. Sharp, balanced and such a public-spirited individual.
The story of how he got interested in public procurement is worth knowing. Out soon. Stay tuned!
Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.
Modiji spent the last 12 years on tax payer money forcefully projecting himself as someone who loves children, schooling, education. But when children and the education sector needed him the most, there's deafening silence. Always absent in crisis, present in taking credit.