Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing in New Delhi on June 1, 2026, marking the Myanmar leader’s first official visit to India since assuming the presidency. The meeting focused on border security, regional stability, connectivity projects, trade, and cooperation against cybercrime and human trafficking.
India and Australia announced on Monday that they would begin developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with regard to the provision of defence articles and services as the next step in deepening defence industrial collaborations. This marks a major step toward co-production and co-development of military hardware.
In a statement that has stirred controversy in both Nepal and India, Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah said that territorial encroachment along the India-Nepal border is “not one-sided” and that both countries have occupied land claimed by the other.
India and the United States have taken a major step toward strengthening global critical minerals supply chains by signing a new cooperation framework aimed at securing resources essential for clean energy, advanced technology, and defence manufacturing.
Science and politics make strange bedfellows. And especially if it comes to creepy and crawly cockroaches, abbhored and swatted, one is unlikely to give it a second glance. But lo and behold, Zoological Survey of India(ZSI) scientists have created first DNA barcode library for Indian cockroaches.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked ministers and government officials to urgently explore alternative sources of energy amid the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran and the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has disrupted India’s fuel supplies from the Gulf. At the more than four-hour meeting of the Council of Ministers, he also pushed for a shift beyond conventional energy sources and suggested biogas as a substitute for LPG cooking gas
A satirical online movement called the “Cockroach Janta Party” (CJP) has rapidly become one of India’s biggest viral political trends, drawing millions of young followers across social media platforms. The movement began after controversial remarks allegedly comparing unemployed youth to “cockroaches” during a Supreme Court hearing triggered widespread outrage online.
