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India’s oil imports and other issues will be on the agenda for Putin meeting with Modi

NEW DELHI, December 3, 2025 (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will be in India this week for a summit aimed at deepening economic, defense and energy ties, a visit that will also test New Delhi’s efforts to balance relations with Moscow and Washington as the war in Ukraine grinds on. Putin is scheduled to arrive on the state visit Thursday and hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. They are expected to review progress on bilateral ties, discuss issues of mutual interest and sign interdepartmental and business agreements, both governments said. India has continued to buy

Internet of beings: the dream of digitising human bodies for healthcare and the nightmare

Milan, Dec 3 (The Conversation) In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning movie – later developed into a novel by Isaac Asimov – seemed like pure fantasy at the time. However, it anticipated what could be the next revolution in medicine: the idea that ever-smaller and more sophisticated sensors are about to enter our bodies, connecting human beings to the internet. This “internet of beings” could be the third and

Rupee breaches 90 to a dollar, falls 6 paise in early trade

Mumbai, Dec 3 (PTI) The rupee breached 90-levels against the greenback for the first time on Wednesday, falling 6 paise to 90.02 in early trade, as banks kept buying US dollars at higher levels and FII outflows continued. However, a weaker dollar index and a fall in global crude oil prices cushioned against a steeper decline, according to forex traders. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 89.96 against the greenback and slipped to a record intra-day low of 90.15 before recovering some ground to trade at 90.02, down 6 paise from its previous close. On Tuesday, the

Stock markets trade lower in early deals amid relentless foreign fund outflows

Mumbai, Dec 3 (PTI) Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined in early trade on Wednesday amid persistent foreign fund outflows and profit-taking by investors. Falling for the fourth day in a row, the 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 165.35 points to 84,972.92 in early trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty declined 77.85 points to 25,954.35. From the Sensex firms, Hindustan Unilever, Bharat Electronics, Titan, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, NTPC, and State Bank of India were among the major laggards. However, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and ICICI Bank were gainers. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) offloaded equities worth Rs 3,642.30 crore

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