Let's start with some art! A painting titled by Raja Ravi Varma sold at auction for INR 167.2 crores making it the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold at auction. Andhra Pradesh finally has a capital too. Parliament passed a bill designating as the state capital, and this one comes with a firm no-going-back clause, no tweaking its status, and definitely no revisiting that multi-capital experiment from a few years ago. On to some geopolitics. US intelligence assessments suggest Iran still has a significant chunk of its missile capability intact, along with roughly of its one-way attack drones, per CNN. The White House has pushed back, calling the claims misleading. The airlines pushed, and the government blinked. That directive requiring airlines to offer at least of seats on every flight free of charge has been put on hold after the airlines made their displeasure clear. And we end where everything began — literally. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have put forward something called Quadratic Gravity Theory, which might just explain some of the thorniest aspects of .