On March 11, 2026, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi addressed officers at the College of Defence Management (CDM) in Secunderabad and articulated what may prove to be a watershed statement in Indian military doctrine. Drawing explicitly from the lessons of Operation Sindoor, General Dwivedi declared that the Indian Army must shift from a…
The ongoing military conflict between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, which began on February 28, 2026, has triggered a cascading energy crisis in India with remarkable speed. Iran’s military closure of the Strait of Hormuz — through which approximately 85 percent of India’s LPG imports are routed…
NASA’s Inspector General released a report on March 11, 2026, warning that SpaceX’s Starship rocket has accumulated at least two years of development delays since NASA selected it as the primary astronaut lander for the Artemis programme in 2021. The Inspector General’s findings are significant because they directly threaten NASA’s target of landing astronauts on…
Nepal held its general elections on March 5, 2026, producing a result that has astonished observers across South Asia. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), a relatively young political formation, swept the elections with a historic mandate, winning 125 of 165 seats under the first past the post system. Traditional parties including the Nepali Congress, the…
The National Statistical Office (NSO) of India released a revised National Accounts Statistics (NAS) series with 2022–23 as the new base year, replacing the previous 2011–12 base year series. This revision comes after an unusually long gap of eleven years and has been eagerly anticipated given the intense controversy that surrounded the previous base year…
On March 12, 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark ruling in the case of Harish Rana, a 32-year-old man who had been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for nearly thirteen years following a fall from the fourth floor of his accommodation as a Panjab University student in 2013. A Bench of…