Author: Anusha Das
August 5 marks the sixth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, which led to Jammu and Kashmir losing its statehood and being divided into three Union Territories.
A significant organisational haul is set by the Indian Army where Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) and counter-UAV as weapon systems will be used at the battalion level across most of its arms.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee introduces people-centric initiative ‘Amader Para Amader Samadhan’ (APAS) recorded 1.6 lakh footfall across 632 camps on the day of its launch on Saturday.
On Wednesday, 127 years after they were removed during colonial rule, jewels that made up a portion of the Buddha’s revered Piprahwa relics—which had just been put up for auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong—were returned to India.
The “multifaceted personality”, Lord Meghnad Desai was an eminent economist, holder of India’s third-highest civilian honour and a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords has passed away on Tuesday (July 29th, 2025) at the age of 85.
A highly emotional mission to symbolically name a hitherto unnamed Himalayan peak in honour of the RG Kar doctor who was raped and killed in Kolkata last year is about to begin with a multidisciplinary team of mountaineers, scientists, and medical professionals travelling to the remote Tso-Moriri region in Ladakh’s Leh district.
Ahead of Durga Puja, West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee may increase the financial grant. This expectation is held by many puja committees in West Bengal. The crucial meeting with the Chief Minister and other festival organisers will be held on 31st July, at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium to finalise the plans.
Donald Trump, President of the US declared this Saturday that the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to negotiate a ceasefire. Three following days, the deadly border clashes continued, killing more than 30 people and over 130,000 people displaced.
Tourist visas have started to be issued by the Indian government after a gap of five years. This news was issued by the Indian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday. The Chinese Ministry of Affairs called this a “positive” decision, calling it marks another step in normalising India-China ties ruptured by the military standoff at the Line of Actual Control and Galwan clashes in 2020.