Editorial

The Indian Army’s move to acquire US-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles is being framed, reasonably enough, as a modernization step — a portable, fire-and-forget system that fills a genuine capability gap in India’s anti-armour arsenal. Defence procurement of this kind draws attention and headlines precisely because it’s visible, negotiated at the highest diplomatic levels, […]

India and China concluded the 25th round of Special Representatives’ talks on the boundary question this week, emerging with an eight-point consensus. As with most rounds before it, the specifics remain deliberately vague in public messaging — broad language about maintaining peace, continuing dialogue, and building on existing confidence-building measures, without a disclosed roadmap for

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India is moving toward mandatory front-of-pack warning labels, flagging packaged foods high in sugar, salt, and fat with clear visual markers rather than the dense, easily ignored nutrition tables currently tucked onto the back of every packet. It is a genuinely overdue reform. India’s packaged food and snack

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