In his Mann Ki Baat address on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to citizens to join hands to free India from the menace of drug abuse, framing it as essential to building a stronger future for the country’s youth. It’s a message that plays well nationally and carries obvious sincerity. But in a border
India marked National Small Industry Day on Saturday, the annual observance that traces back to a 2000 policy package meant to widen credit access, technology upgrades, and infrastructure support for the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprises. The numbers behind the day are genuinely striking: MSMEs contribute nearly 30 percent of India’s GDP, account for
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Uzbekistan this week on a two-day state visit, with New Delhi setting a target of pushing bilateral trade to $5 billion by 2030. The Adani Group has expressed interest in investing in new hydropower and pumped-storage hydropower projects in the Central Asian republic, building on talks that began in
Tripura’s 2026-27 budget quietly signals an ambition bigger than roads and rural markets: a state trying to diversify an economy still 30-35 percent dependent on agriculture into textiles, handicrafts, and technology. The numbers are notable. Tribal Welfare Minister Bikash Debbarma has pitched Delhi on an Integrated Textile Park, a Silk Park, a National Institute of
Tripura’s government has spent the past several weeks inaugurating rural markets and agricultural facilities at a steady clip — a seed processing centre in Jagannathpur, a modern market in Palatana, another in Kumarghat’s Betcherra, each accompanied by familiar numbers: 554 agricultural markets statewide, ₹461.83 crore committed to 204 market projects since 2018-19, national highway length
Sustained gunfire tore through Niger’s capital overnight into Saturday, concentrated around the presidential palace and the Diori Hamani International Airport, home to a major military base. State television went dark for over an hour. By morning, a security source told AFP that the presidential guard had repelled an attempt by “insurgents from within the armed
A publisher, editor and reporter at Stars and Stripes, the federally funded outlet that has covered American servicemembers since World War II, are now suing the Pentagon, alleging they were pushed out for reporting that embarrassed the chain of command. The stories in question detailed poor conditions, low morale and mental health strain aboard the
Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Sweden have drawn a line under the European Union’s proposed €2 trillion budget for 2028-2034, demanding cuts of several hundred billion euros before they’ll sign off. It is, on its face, a fight about arithmetic: six net contributors who pay more into Brussels than they get back want
More than 500 people are now confirmed dead across Nepal and Tibet, with hundreds more missing, after a wall of water, mud and debris tore down the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli-Narayani river system earlier this week. As rescue crews still dig through the wreckage of that first disaster, China’s water ministry has warned of a second one:
Washington and Tehran are once again circling the same bargain: America lifts its naval blockade and eases sanctions, Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz and reins in its regional proxies. Reports this week suggest a text is close, delivered through Pakistani mediation. It would be reassuring to call this the breakthrough. History from just the
