Beijing’s official language on CPEC is one of permanence – “all-weather,” “iron-clad,” unshakeable by attack. That’s messaging for a domestic and diplomatic audience; it isn’t what moves capital. Read More

For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu's strategic choices are, in effect, New Delhi's strategic exposure. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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