In this article, Dr Anupama Sikarwar writes that a woman climbing a mountain in the 20th century was confronting far more than ice, exhaustion or thin air – she was also confronting generations of social conditioning that confined women within narrowly defined expectations. Read More

The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineering achievement but a quiet but profound social statement, Dr Anupama Sikarwar writes. Read More

There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the reserves collapse, the fuel ships stop arriving, the grid starts to strain – and suddenly the value of what was built, years earlier, in calmer times, becomes impossible to ignore. Read More

The Indian conglomerate has signed a memorandum of understanding at a high-level business forum in Addis Ababa and applied for gold mining licences in Gambela and Benishangul-Gumuz, two western Ethiopian regions that sit atop the mineral-rich Arabian-Nubian Shield. Read More

False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's minorities. Read More

The Ministry of Law and Justice has appointed Advocate Shantanu Jugtawat as Central Government Counsel for conducting litigation on behalf of the Union Government. Read More

The government has appointed Meetu Agarwal, a 2010-batch Indian Revenue Service (IT cadre) officer, as Director in the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence, headquartered in New Delhi. Read More

Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to insulate personnel from external ideological influence. Read More

Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf. It was presented, as every milestone in this programme has been presented, as a moment of national achievement. Read More

The government has officially deployed a nationwide mobile-based disaster communication system, led jointly by the Department of Communications and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Read More