The UAE Space Agency has shown off the spacecraft for an eight-year journey past seven asteroids, the latest marker of a space programme that has gone from a standing start to a serious regional power in under two decades.
India's airlines say the squeeze from Pakistan's airspace ban and a global jet-fuel shock could sink them. Routes are being cut, but no major carrier has actually gone under.
Twenty-nine Air India routes cut in three months, a Vienna-Delhi link gone by Halloween, a lonely Chennai-Réunion service flying its last leg in October. The cuts are small on their own. Together they are a pattern.
India's airlines say jet fuel now eats up 55-60% of operating costs, nearly double its usual share, as the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz closure send ATF prices soaring.
A rolling monthly NOTAM has kept Pakistani skies shut to Indian carriers since April 2025, piling up close to $2 billion in losses with no renewal deadline ever truly final.
Dove Airlines folded into liquidation in January 2026 and got swept into roundups of airline trouble. It had not flown a single route since 2022, years before the pressures it is now blamed for even began.
Since July, a protest movement has tested how free India's institutions really are. The record the state has filed under oath keeps colliding with the one its own evidence shows.
Rahul Gandhi and nine other opposition leaders have taken India's Election Commission to the Supreme Court over more than 130 million vanished voters.
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN have converged on the same verdict about India's mass detentions, a record that 'mother of democracy' rhetoric does not easily survive.
Grandparents and students waved the same flag over the same grievance in central Delhi, a sign the Cockroach protests have outgrown their organisers.
