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. Read More

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.” Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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