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Time of India
18 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Morning Brief Podcast: Big Money's Mood Swings: Explaining the FII Flight
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online) Big Money's Mood Swings: Explaining the FII Flight Anirban Chowdhury | 12:49 Min | August 12, 2025, 6:34 AM IST LISTEN 12:49 LISTENING... In this episode, we dive into why foreign investors have been quietly pulling billions out of India's stock markets even as they talk up the country's growth potential. We break down the main drivers: stock prices are high compared to history and other Asian markets, corporate earnings growth has slowed, the rupee has weakened, and economic activity has lost some steam. And then came the curveball hefty U.S. tariffs on Indian exports. This unexpected move has rattled investors already on the edge. While strong domestic inflows from Indian investors have helped steady the market, foreign money still matters, because it's often seen as a measure of global confidence in the economy. Host Anirban Chowdhury with ETs markets editor Nishanth Vasudevan explore the different kinds of foreign investors from 'hot money' chasing short-term opportunities to patient, value-focused funds waiting for the right moment. The question now is: will they return if the market takes a dip, earnings bounce back, or growth accelerates again?
Economic Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Morning Brief Podcast: Ram Madhvani on Blending VR, AI and Bharat
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online) Ram Madhvani on Blending VR, AI and Bharat Anirban Chowdhury and Rajesh Naidu | 24:32 Min | August 07, 2025, 7:32 AM IST LISTEN 24:32 LISTENING... Virtual Reality in India has long been seen as a futuristic gaming gimmick flashy, expensive, and niche. But that's changing. Host Anirban Chowdhury and ETs Rajesh Naidu talk to national award winning film maker Ram Madhvani (Neerja, Aarya) who is reimagining VR as a cultural and spiritual experience. His latest project? A five-minute immersive film on the Bhagavad Gita not for streaming, but to be experienced through VR headsets in temples, forts, and museums across India. With plans to roll out 100 such films by 2028 and place headsets in cultural hubs, Madhvani wants to democratize VR not through Silicon Valley, but through Bharat. Priced at just ₹100, these bite-sized experiences could bring in pilgrims, students, and families, not just gamers and techies. As India's spiritual tourism surges and the government pushes cultural pride, could this be the unlikely tipping point for VR adoption in the country? We dive into the vision, the tech, the economics and the big bet on storytelling as India's gateway to the metaverse.
New York Post
24-07-2025
- Science
- New York Post
Rare interstellar object the size of Manhattan could be an alien probe: Harvard scientists
It's probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to believe it's really an alien probe. NASA discovered 31/ATLAS on July 1, speeding through the inner solar system at 140,000 miles per hour according to observations from the ATLAS telescope in Chile — with experts clueless as to where it originated. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggested in a new paper that the object — only the third interstellar object ever detected — could be an intelligently directed alien craft observing Earth with possibly hostile intentions. 3 The trajectory of 31/ATLAS, which passes right through the interior Solar System and will end up passing Jupiter, NSF NOIRLab 'The hypothesis in question is that [31/ATLAS] is a technological artifact, and furthermore has active intelligence. If this is the case, then two possibilities follow,' Dr. Loeb, Adam Drowl, and Adam Hibberd, wrote in a paper published on July 17. 'First, that its intentions are entirely benign and second, they are malign,' the experts opined, suggesting ETs. The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but instead a directed craft. One of the 'most puzzling' observations is that the object has 'significant 'non-gravitational' acceleration whilst having now 'cometary outgassing.' Loeb writes that 31/ATLAS 'approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter with a probability of <0.005%,' the paper claimed. 31/ATLAS's 'low retrograde tilt' would seemingly allow it to 'access our planet with relative impunity.' 3 31/ATLAS pictured by Gemini North. NSF NOIRLab The retrograde tilt 'means attempts by humanity to intercept it, or even more difficult, rendezvous with it, are extremely challenging,' while the route simultaneously gives 31/ATLAS easy access to 'certain key target planets,' the paper hypothesized. Loeb further suggests that the tilt and pathway would allow the intelligent life on the object to gather 'astrometric measurements, to determine the orbits and masses of the Solar System planets, allowing it to prepare an optimal approach strategy to the Solar System.' Another possible smoking gun is that 31/ATLAS will come closest to the Sun on October 29 — on which day the object will be completely blocked from Earth's view by the fiery ball. 3 31/ATLAS pictured by Gemini North. NSF NOIRLab The paper, presented in part as a 'pedagogical experiment,' embraces the 'Dark Forest' hypothesis regarding alien life — which assumes that other intelligent life would likely view Earthlings as a threat to be snuffed out. The Dark Forest hypothesis, coined in the 2008 novel 'The Dark Forest' by Cixin Liu, is a direct rebuttal to the Fermi Paradox, which suggests that contact with extraterrestrial intelligences is impossible.
