Conflict

It’s officially the end of Binny Bansal’s association with Flipkart. The entrepreneur has resigned from the board of the ecommerce company he co founded in 2007 with Sachin Bansal, sources said. Binny Bansal, who is now based in Singapore, wrote to the board about his resignation earlier this week after he set up a new venture in the ecommerce sector.Named OppDoor, Binny Bansal’s new venture targeted at businesses with a software services platform will help emerging ecommerce brands expand globally. The IIT- Delhi alumnus…

Image: Killian Plunkett/Dark HorseDecades even before the Republic was made aware of the existence of the Kaminoan clone army, the Senate backed multiple elaborate projects to support and enhance the effectiveness of the various, smaller defense forces aligned with the Republic and its member worlds. One such project, completed in 46BBY—14 years before the events of The Phantom Menace—was the Katana Fleet.A 200-ship strong fleet made entirely of Rendili StarDrive dreadnaught heavy cruisers, the Katana Fleet was valuable…

Gabriela Cowperthwaite is the first to admit her new film, I.S.S., is out of step with her career to date.The director of Blackfish (a documentary about the cruel treatment of orcas in captivity, Children of the Underground (about a covert network built to smuggle families away from abusive partners) and Our Friend (a true story of friendship in the face of terminal cancer), Cowperthwaite might be expected to focus on tales inspired by real events. Instead, an unrealized love for thrillers, horror and blockbusters took…

"I don't know how good I would have been," the actress admitted in an interview on The Tonight Show It’s no secret that Jodie Foster was once up for the part of Princess Leia in Star Wars — a role that became iconic for Carrie Fisher. But in a new interview on The Tonight Show Foster explained that the only reason she passed was because of a scheduling issue. “I had a conflict,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “I was doing a Disney movie and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie…

 The Earth is heating up, as is conflict in the Middle East. The world economy and Ukraine's defense against Russia are sputtering along. Artificial intelligence (AI) could upend all our lives. The to-do list of global priorities has grown for this year's edition of the World Economic Forum gabfest of business, political and other elites in the Alpine snows of Davos, Switzerland. It gets going in earnest Tuesday and runs through Friday.Over 60 heads of state and government, including Israeli President Isaac Herzog and…

Screenshot: ParamountAnother rare entry on this list that is not from either the Dominion or Klingon Wars is still perhaps the most famous battle in Star Trek history: Starfleet’s engagement with Borg forces in the Wolf system, just eight light years from Earth. Compared to other conflicts mentioned here the numbers involved are much smaller in scope, 40 Starfleet vessels and a single Borg Cube. But Wolf 359 is devastating for the trauma it impacts on much of Star Trek itself in the years since its aftermath was first…

Couples with differing political views and identities face unique challenges in their consumption of news, which can create significant stress on their relationship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign communication professor Emily Van Duyn found in a recent study. Credit: L. Brian Stauffer By one estimate, as many as 30% of people in the U.S. are in romantic relationships with partners who do not share their political…

Updated Jan. 12, 2024 7:11 am ETBERLIN—Tesla plans to halt production at its biggest factory in Europe for two weeks as the conflict in the Red Sea continues to disrupt transport ships, raising the specter of a new supply-chain crisis for European manufacturers dependent on parts from China and other Asian countries.Tesla said in a statement Friday that it would stop nearly all production at its factory near Berlin from Jan. 29 to Feb. 12 because of a lack of components.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All…

Jonathan Glover’s new book, on the seemingly intractable nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict, quotes George Orwell on the Spanish civil war: “Everybody believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side without ever examining the evidence.”This could have been written today, amid bipolar thinking and pressure to take sides, where people’s identification with the facts can reflect their political predilections. Glover wrote the bulk of his study before the recent horrors, though it is…

Conflict between generations is nothing new. Old people can’t tell a scam email from a real email and are constantly complaining. Young people are too sucked into technology to pay attention to the real world. Those in between struggle with the existential cloud of cultural irrelevance. What could possibly help bridge these seemingly insurmountable differences? According to Meat & Livestock Australia, the answer might just be some BBQ lamb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e0apyGAScIn what’s become an annual…