Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s remarks in Parliament acknowledging instances of cross-border cultivation into Indian territory have drawn attention in New Delhi, with the development being viewed as a potentially significant moment in ongoing India-Nepal border discussions. Speaking before Nepal’s Parliament on Sunday, Shah stated that technical assessments had identified cases where local residents were cultivating or using land that legally falls on the Indian side of the border. The comments marked an unusual public acknowledgment by a Nepali prime minister regarding border management complexities involving India. The statement comes against the backdrop of longstanding boundary administration challenges along…

Looks like Indian football fans are finally getting some good news — Zee Entertainment’s close to locking in a deal to broadcast the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with reports pegging the deal somewhere between $30 million and $35 million. For months, people wondered if anyone would actually step up to show the world’s biggest football tournament in a country where the sport’s growing fast. Once the agreement is done, Zee plans to air the games on its new Unite8 Sports network and stream them on Zee5. That ends the uncertainty about who’ll bring the tournament to screens in India. The…

For years, the easy answer to automation anxiety was: let robots do the work, and the state will hand out cash to keep us afloat. Universal Basic Income sounded like the best fix for a world where human labor couldn’t compete. But now, as AI stretches deeper into everything we do, that old promise is starting to seem naive. The real issue isn’t just losing jobs; it’s losing the value we actually create to tech systems we don’t control, don’t own, and don’t profit from. That’s why Universal Data Wages is getting attention. It flips the script: instead of treating…

New Delhi: This year’s UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Exam, held on May 24, has really stirred things up among students, teachers, and coaching centers. People are saying it wasn’t just hard, it was a marathon. Most who took the test are calling it the toughest in years, with a heavy focus on analysis instead of rote learning. Not surprisingly, early predictions suggest the General Category cut-off will sink to somewhere between 75 and 79 marks, and honestly, it might dip even lower once all the results are in. These numbers aren’t just random. If you look at the cut-off scores…

The war in Ukraine got to a pretty dangerous level on May 29, 2026, when a Russian drone, as reports, went off its path and ended up crashing into a residential apartment building in Galai, Romania, injuring some civilians and setting a fire. Authorities are still investigating the facts of the episode, but it is already clear that it puts NATO and European policymakers in a very difficult position. Romania is a NATO member, and a military object coming into its territory from an active conflict zone has a lot of implications that go far beyond the local damage. For…

Late May 2026 hit Great Britain with heat nobody expected, especially in a country where people mostly worry about staying warm, not cool. On May 26 and 27, London saw spring temperatures soar to an eye-popping 35.1°C. Nighttime heat records tumbled for three days straight. Suddenly, climate talk isn’t some background noise, it’s all anyone’s talking about, making headlines across the country. Then, right as people reached for fans and frozen peas, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) dropped a report that spelled it out: Britain’s homes were made for a climate that just doesn’t exist anymore. The CCC didn’t pull…

India’s digital scene is teetering on the edge of something pretty big, and honestly, pretty alarming. With the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology getting ready to roll out the Draft IT Second Amendment Rules, 2026, the free, messy, and democratic world of online expression is about to get reined in, hard. The rules, revealed at the end of March, threaten to shut down the “influencer grey zone” for good by roping regular folks into regulations meant for professional news outlets. If these changes go through, Rules 14-16 will blur the line between what citizens say online and what journalists…

A shepherd recruitment campaign in northern China has become a viral sensation, drawing over 700 candidates and billions of views on the North China grasslands near the Gobi Desert, and has sparked a national conversation about growing economic anxiety and, possibly, white-collar exhaustion. Originally posted as a simple recruitment notice for two sheep-herding positions, an invitation to work in “the isolation and extreme cold” of the Far North in Inner Mongolia attracted a thousand candidates in less than a month, more than you could imagine. The positions were to manage thousands of sheep on a farm spanning more than 2,000…

World markets rallied on speculation that the United States and Iran are on the verge of signing a short 14-point memorandum of understanding to extend the current ceasefire and re-open the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital energy shipping lanes. The new framework, reportedly brokered through intermediaries in Doha, triggered a move on commodities and equities. Brent crude prices fell by almost 7%, while the sensex and nifty, Indian benchmark indices, fell sharply late in the session as investors anticipated a rollback of geopolitical tensions in the Gulf. Sources say the one-page draft, which the two countries…

New Delhi: Education is never static. It is a concept that changes with society, culture and politics and the emotional maturity of every new generation who will be the adopters of knowledge. Looking at the above, the Supreme Court’s decision to constitute a high-level committee to examine the use of cartoons and satirical illustrations in NCERT textbooks, shouldn’t be understood as a move to censor; rather it should be considered as a responsible exercise. This decision was taken after the apprehensions, on the part of the Solicitor General, that political and institutional satire in school textbooks may have an unintended…