#FPOpinion: Why Balochistan can’t go the Bangladesh way, writes @nikhapte firstpost.com/opinion/why-ba…

General Sham Singh Attariwala’s historic Khanda, presented by his 7th-generation direct descendant, Sardar Anant Bir Singh Attari. A proud warrior of the Sidhu Jatt lineage, the General served as a senior Jathedar of the Khalsa Army and a royal advisor to the Lahore Darbar.

1. Iran has claimed it captured intact a super-secret, highly powerful US ‘submarine drone’ near the Strait of Hormuz, manufactured by Anduril. #CutTheClutter explains the journey of AI weapons-maker Anduril, its founder Palmer Luckey & how the company is revolutionising US defence. The episode also explains what the use & “capture” of the US submarine drone tells us about modern warfare.   2. The drone in question is Dive-LD. Media has called it an unmanned submarine, but the Dive-LD is really an autonomous underwater vehicle. It’s about 19ft long & 4ft in diameter, & can operate thousands of metres below the sea surface for days without human intervention. Luckey describes the Dive-LD as a mass-produced attritable submarine.   3. Now, a modern autonomous submarine falling into Iranian hands is quite a significant event. And, of course, both sides have conflicting claims. Iran says it has a lot of tech & software, while the US says, no, it’s a very old version that had already stopped functioning.   4. Earlier RMA or revolution in military affairs would happen once in 10-15 years. Now, it comes almost every 6 months, & that’s because Silicon Valley has got into defence. Prime example is the trinity: Elon Musk, Alex Karp & Palmer Luckey. With Anduril, Luckey is reducing the element of human risk in warfare, &, in contrast, also lowering the threshold for when countries go to war.   5. Future warfare will involve such machines that are cheap, autonomous, highly capable & can go anywhere. This drone can go 6,000m or nearly 20,000ft deep, no one needs to be fed, it doesn’t have to snorkel to take in oxygen, it doesn’t need a periscope. Also, this has a modular inside. So, you can fix things to it. It can map the seabed or examine underwater cables or it can be used for ISR (intelligence surveillance reconnaissance) or to fire weapons.   6. The real jewel in Anduril’s crown is a software platform called Lattice. Thousands of sensors, drones, submarines, aircraft and human operators feed information into Lattice. AI analyses the data, identifies threats, distinguishes friend from foe, recommends responses & presents options to a human decision-maker.   7. #CutTheClutter with me. Episode 1898: What Iran's capture of submarine drone tells us about modern warfare & US AI weapons company Anduril      youtube.com/watch?v=_HQJskxp…

#WATCH | Delhi: On former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg's statement alleging GDP data revision from Rs 86 lakh crore to Rs 80 lakh crore to inflate the latest Q1 2026-2027 figures, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) Secretary Saurabh Garg says, "...Whenever we compare year-to-year, we always compare on constant prices because current prices include price inflation, and therefore current price is not the correct method to compare year-to-year. Whenever we do a comparison, we need to compare like to like; we can't compare apples to oranges. So what has been done is that the current GDP of the old series, which has already become obsolete, and the data we had released last year, has been compared with the current GDP of this quarter of the new series... If you look at the volume output, for example, the number of automobiles produced, the amount of cement produced, the amount of steel produced, and you compare this from quarter one of last year and quarter one of this year, this shows extremely high growth rates of 12 per cent, 14 per cent, 16 per cent when we look at volume growth. Making this statement that there has been some data fudging done is extremely unfortunate..."