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IMA alumni mark 25 years of commissioning with silver jubilee reunion
Seventy-five officers from the 91st Technical Entry Course and the 9th University Entry Scheme gathered at the Indian Military Academy on June 20, 2025, to mark 25 years since they were commissioned into the Indian Army.
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75 Indian students awarded Erasmus+ scholarships
40 Indian Student Ambassadors selected to drive EU-India academic and people-to-people exchange; deepening the people-centered dimension of the EU-India Strategic Partnership.
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‘Humari Collector Didi’: How Vaishali DM Varsha Singh is bringing career guidance to rural Bihar students
Vaishali district magistrate Varsha Singh’s “Humari Collector Didi” initiative is bridging the gap between rural students’ aspirations and the mentorship they need to achieve them.
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Hangor’s price: What Pakistan’s submarines cost in human terms
In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank estimated that Pakistan’s poverty rate had reached 40.5 per cent, measured at $3.65 per person per day in 2017 purchasing power parity terms, with an additional 2.6 million Pakistanis falling below the poverty line.
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Hosting PLA (N) ships at Gwadar: Pakistan’s sovereignty bargain with Beijing
Major military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospective user of a facility being built on Pakistani sovereign territory.
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Peepal Baba’s memoir marks five decades of planting 25 million trees
Penguin Random House has published ‘Ghosts on Peepal Trees’, a memoir by the environmental activist known as Peepal Baba, tracing a grassroots conservation campaign that has covered 270,000 hectares across 226 districts in 22 states.
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Kathmandu Literary Festival: South Asia meets to talk literature and shared futures
The fourth Kathmandu Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) opens on June 6 at Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu, running for two days under the theme “Beyond Borders: South Asian Literature in a Changing World.”
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India-US agri partnership gets fresh push
The US-India Business Council hosted a PHDCCI team led by Dileep Sanghani for discussions on agricultural productivity, technology adoption and food security and later publicized the meeting on its official channels.
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How India became Nepal’s economic lifeline through trade and transit
India’s ports, fuel supplies, railways and transit corridors remain the foundation of Nepal’s economy, connecting the landlocked nation to global trade and sustaining everyday commerce.
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Mount Everest: The pathway to inner summit
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.
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