Hangor’s price: What Pakistan’s submarines cost in human terms
PNS Hangor makes port call in Malaysia (Photo: Malaysian Navy)In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank estimated that Pakistan’s poverty rate had reached 40.5 per cent, measured at $3.65 per…
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Hosting PLA (N) ships at Gwadar: Pakistan’s sovereignty bargain with Beijing
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official plann…
Peepal Baba’s memoir marks five decades of planting 25 million trees
New Delhi: On World Environment Day, Penguin Random House released a book that is part memoir, part conservation chronicle – ‘Ghosts on Peepal Trees’, written by the veteran environment…
Kathmandu Literary Festival: South Asia meets to talk literature and shared futures
New Delhi: 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 Literatur…
India-US agri partnership gets fresh push
USIBC hosts PHDCCI delegates in Washington (Photo: IFFCO)New Delhi: The US-India Business Council (USIBC), the Washington-based advocacy group, hosted a delegation from the PHD Chamber …
How India became Nepal’s economic lifeline through trade and transit
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)India has functioned as Nepal’s primary economic lifeline since the two countries signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship i…
Mount Everest: The pathway to inner summit
Edmund Hillary (L) and Tenzin Norgay.There is a reason Mount Everest is spoken about differently from other mountains, with a fascination that feels almost mythic. More than a peak, Eve…
When women scale Everest, societies rise with them
BSF women mountaineers complete historic Everest bid (Photo: BSF)The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineer…
How Rampal became Bangladesh’s crisis buffer
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…
Indian firm to invest $300 million in Ethiopia
New Delhi: Rashmi Group, the Kolkata-headquartered steel and mining conglomerate with annual revenues of roughly $575 million, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to invest a…
How social media campaigns are pre-programming minority killings in Dhaka
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 th…
Advocate Jugtawat appointed as central government counsel
New Delhi: The Ministry of Law and Justice has appointed Advocate Shantanu Jugtawat as Central Government Counsel for conducting litigation on behalf of the Union Government.As Central …