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 …
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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 …
Ministry of Defence appoints IRS officer Meetu Agarwal as director
New Delhi: 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 …
How regional militant influence finds entry inside south asia’s military institutions
New Delhi: Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, ra…
The hidden costs of Pakistan’s Hangor-class submarine deal
Pakistan’s first Hangor-class submarine approaching a naval pier at Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia (Photo: Royal Malaysian Navy)Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sany…
India strengthens disaster preparedness with multilingual mobile alert platform
New Delhi: The government has officially deployed a nationwide mobile-based disaster communication system, led jointly by the Department of Communications and the National Disaster Mana…