Issue 2026-03-19
Stories
- Israel’s 18 Mar 2026 Tehran Strike Eliminates Iranian Intelligence Chief Esmail Khatib
- Israeli Strike on Iran’s South Pars Sparks Iranian Hit on Qatar LNG; Trump Issues Ultimatum
- Israeli Airstrike Decapitates Iran’s Wartime Command, Killing Ali Larijani
- UniCredit Triggers Takeover Threshold with €30.8-per-share Bid for Commerzbank
- HDFC Bank Chair Quits on Ethics, Wiping ₹1 trn in Value Before RBI Calm
- Meta Scraps VR Horizon Worlds, Shifts Flagship Metaverse Project to Mobile Only
- Hayabusa2 Ryugu Samples Yield Full DNA/RNA Nucleobase Set
- ACM Names Bennett & Brassard 2025 Turing Award Laureates for Inventing Quantum Cryptography
- OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.4 Mini & Nano, Extending Near-Flagship AI to Free and Low-Cost Tiers
At a Glance
- Around midnight 17–18 March 2026, an Israeli precision airstrike in Tehran killed Iran’s intelligence minister Esmail...
- On 18–19 Mar 2026 Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field, Iran retaliated by firing five missiles at Qatar’s Ras L...
- In the pre-dawn hours of 18 March 2026, Iran admitted that a joint U.S.–Israeli missile strike on a residence in Pard...
- On 16 March 2026 UniCredit launched an unsolicited share-swap valuing Commerzbank at roughly €34.7 bn, lifting its st...
- On 18–19 Mar 2026, part-time chairman Atanu Chakraborty abruptly resigned mid-term citing misaligned “values and ethi...
- On 18–19 Mar 2026 Meta said it will delist Horizon Worlds from the Quest store on 31 Mar 2026 and shut the VR service...