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October 26, 2025 10:45 AM

South Korea unveils its Monster Missile in response to North Korea’s hypersonic test

The Korean Peninsula is on edge again. North Korea has flexed its muscles with a bold, new missile test -- firing what it called a "cutting-edge" hypersonic weapon. This wasn't just-another launch. It was a high-stakes message, timed perfectly to ra...

October 25, 2025 12:49 PM

Celebrating the man who made India fall in love with Bharat

Everyone has a Piyush Pandey story. And almost always, it is about his warmth, kindness, intelligence and insights. He was Tom Hanks, if Tom were more creative and had a laughter that could light up ideas and boardrooms. But this is not my story; it...

October 19, 2025 9:04 AM

Trump claims he has stopped eight wars. So why is he starting a new one with Venezuela?

Why is Trump, who has said a zillion times that the war between Ukraine and Russia would never have started if he were the President, training his guns on Maduro? That's the question that is agitating many a mind around the world, including Venezuela...

October 11, 2025 2:41 PM

India-EFTA Trade Pact: A landmark deal to spur $100 billion investment, 1 million jobs

In a historic step for India’s trade policy, the India–European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA), signed on March 10, 2024, came into effect on October 1. This marks India’s first free trade agreemen...

October 10, 2025 11:06 AM

How Ukraine’s European allies fuel Russia’s war economy

European nations, including France, are among the staunchest supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Several have also stepped up their imports of Russian energy which pump billions of euros into Moscow's wartime economy. Well into the fo...

October 8, 2025 11:54 AM

What the EU’s new biometric border checks mean for non-EU citizens

How all non-European Union citizens, including British visitors, travel to and from the bloc will start to change from Sunday when its long-delayed new biometric entry-check system starts operations. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will require all non-...

October 6, 2025 4:10 PM

PM Modi’s UDAN Takes Purnea Sky-High, Redrawing Bihar’s Economic Map From Polls to Planes

Jitna—a poor peasant who struggles for survival in noted writer Phanishwar Nath Renu's “Maila Anchal”—could not believe his eyes to see Purnea, a district once marked with dusty paths where bullock carts creaked, painting a picture of despair...

September 26, 2025 2:58 PM

Swachhata Hi Seva 2025: From toilets to landfill-free cities, mission expands scope

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described Swachh Bharat as “the world’s largest and most successful people-led, people-driven public movement of this century,” as the Swachhata Hi Seva 2025 campaign got underway with a renewed focus on waste m...

September 25, 2025 3:00 PM

PMAY-G: Over 2.82 crore rural homes built; target extended to 4.95 crore by 2029

The government’s flagship rural housing scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G), has so far enabled the completion of more than 2.82 crore houses across the country, with the overall target now extended to 4.95 crore homes by 2029, of...

September 22, 2025 3:46 PM

GST Bachat Utsav: A tax reform for the people, by the people

India stands at a moment of deep economic transition, where the aspirations of a billion citizens meet the structural reforms of a government intent on reshaping the trajectory of growth. The launch of GST 2.0 marks not just a revision of taxation bu...

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