Frontier AI developers are companies that build large general-purpose AI models, such as Anthropic and OpenAI. In June 2026, Anthropic, a Public Benefit Corporation, confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the US SEC for a proposed IPO, after raising funds at a $965 billion valuation. The contents of the filing, the offering size, and the price are not public.

Al companies have increasingly partnered with military institutions across the world. These collaborations include projects on surveillance systems, autonomous platforms, logistics automation, and battlefield decision-support tools. 

Countries joining the EU must meet the “Copenhagen criteria”: stable institutions that guarantee democracy and the rule of law, a functioning market economy, and the ability to adopt the EU’s body of law. Ukraine applied for membership in 2022.

In the early 1980s, the Indian government provided covert military, financial, and logistical support to multiple Tamil militant groups, including the LTTE through the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). By the mid-1980s, the increasing violence in Sri Lanka prompted then PM Rajiv Gandhi to rein in the conflict diplomatically. This led to the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord, signed on July 29, 1987, which promised provincial autonomy for Tamils, disarmament of rebel groups, and deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). The LTTE was not a signatory and rejected the Accord.

Litigation financing is when an outside funder pays a party's legal costs or advances money against a claim, in exchange for a share of any winnings. It is typically non-recourse: if the case is lost, the funder gets nothing

<div>An ex-ante law sets rules in advance: it bans specific practices outright, without the regulator having to prove harm in each case. An ex-post law penalises conduct after it has taken place, and only if the regulator proves it harmed competition. India currently regulates competition through the Competition Act, 2002, an ex-post law enforced by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). In 2024, a government committee released a draft Digital Competition Bill, India's first ex-ante competition law, modelled on the EU's Digital Markets Act. It would apply only to the largest digital companies, banning practices such as favouring their own products, using sellers' data to compete against them, and bundling services.</div><div><br></div>

Countries joining the EU must meet the "Copenhagen criteria": stable institutions that guarantee democracy and the rule of law, a functioning market economy, and the ability to adopt the EU's body of law. Ukraine applied for membership in 2022.

In the early 1980s, the Indian government provided covert military, financial, and logistical support to multiple Tamil militant groups, including the LTTE through the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). By the mid-1980s, the increasing violence in Sri Lanka prompted then PM Rajiv Gandhi to rein in the conflict diplomatically. This led to the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord, signed on July 29, 1987, which promised provincial autonomy for Tamils, disarmament of rebel groups, and deployment of the India

In the United States, over 90% of intercity passenger rail (Amtrak) runs on tracks privately owned by freight rail companies. Freight trains are frequently prioritized on these shared tracks over passenger trains, despite a federal law requiring the opposite, causing significant and chronic passenger rail delays.

Interventionist God is a God who actively intervenes in human lives and worldly events, such as answering prayers or influencing outcomes.

Non-Interventionist God is a God who may have created the universe but does not interfere in human lives or worldly events.

Canonisation is the Catholic Church's formal declaration that a person who has died is a saint and may be publicly venerated. Candidates must be shown to have lived with "heroic virtue, "and miracles must be attributed to their intercession.

Veneration means a feeling or act of deep respect, awe, and honor inspired by a person's dignity, wisdom, talent, or sacred status Intercession is the practice of praying to God or invoking holy figures (such as saints) on behalf of someone else's health, protection, or spiritual needs.

PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) is DOL’s labor certification step required before most EB-2/EB-3 green cards (employment-based U.S. Green Card categories for skilled professionals and workers). On October 8, 2026, DOL suspended PERM applications for 8 major employers including Infosys, Tata, Wipro and HCL.

Union busting refers to any action, strategy, or campaign used by employers, management, or outside consultants to prevent, disrupt, or weaken workers from forming, joining, or maintaining a trade union. These may include but are not limited to hosting anti-union seminars, threatening workers with plant closures, surveillance of workers, etc.

You are the founder and CEO of a large family owned conglomerate with businesses across several sectors.  You are stepping down and must choose your successor. The first candidate is your child, a recent graduate of a top business school. The second is an external candidate, a seasoned executive with over 20 years of leadership experience

Existential medicalization refers to the process by which medicine increasingly addresses existential aspects of human life (such as aging, mortality, etc. as medical problems requiring clinical management or intervention.

In India, new medicines are normally required to undergo a local Phase 3 clinical trial before they can be sold, even if they have already been approved by regulators abroad. In August 2024, India's drug regulator allowed local trials to be waived for drugs already approved in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Canada or the European Union, in five categories: drugs for rare diseases, gene and cell therapies, drugs for pandemics, drugs for special defence purposes, and drugs that offer a significant advance over existing treatment.

Dr. Satra is a young surgeon at a city hospital, widely regarded as a prodigy. He is engaged to the daughter of the hospital director.

One day, a young boy arrives with a critical head wound, and Dr. Satra is called in to operate, as only he can. He is the only surgeon in the hospital equipped to perform this operation. As he prepares for the surgery, the corrupt mayor of the town arrives with a similar condition. The hospital director orders Satra to operate on the mayor instead.