Month: September 2026

Russia has said there are no major obstacles remaining in processing payments for trade with India, potentially easing one of the biggest challenges affecting bilateral economic ties since Western sanctions disrupted traditional international payment channels. The development is significant because India and Russia have continued to expand trade, particularly in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute to legendary Bengali actor Uttam Kumar on his birth centenary, remembering the “Mahanayak” as a timeless icon whose performances continue to connect with audiences across generations. Born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay on September 3, 1926, Uttam Kumar became one of the most influential

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit has highlighted India’s difficult diplomatic balancing act. While New Delhi is seeking to strengthen trade and economic ties with Iran, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned countries against helping Tehran evade

Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman, the Indian Air Force officer who became widely known after the 2019 India-Pakistan aerial engagement, has retired from the IAF and begun a new chapter as a commercial pilot with Goa-based regional airline FLY91. According to reports, Varthaman took premature retirement from the Indian Air Force

Nepal’s devastating flash floods have triggered a massive rescue and relief operation, with authorities racing to locate survivors and thousands of people still reported missing after the Himalayan disaster. The floods struck on August 26 after a glacial collapse near the Nepal-China border sent huge volumes of water, ice, mud

Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma has created history by becoming the first woman officer from the non-medical stream in India’s Defence Forces to attain the rank of Air Vice Marshal, equivalent to a two-star rank. She assumed charge as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Education) at Air Headquarters on

Nepal’s catastrophic floods have raised a difficult question: could the disaster have been detected earlier? A rapid assessment by the HiRISK scientific consortium suggests that there were some “pre-event indications” of the glacier collapse days before the disaster, although experts caution that predicting the exact timing of such a sudden

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to adopt a united approach against terrorism and dismantle the entire ecosystem that supports it. Speaking at the 26th SCO Summit in Bishkek, Modi stressed that terrorism cannot be addressed through an isolated “action-reaction” approach and called for

A social media controversy erupted at the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office shared a cropped version of the official leaders’ group photograph. The edited image removed several leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while placing Sharif more prominently near the