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Oman has invited Indian businesses to invest in Sohar Port, which lies on its Gulf of Oman coast away from the Strait of Hormuz and offers access to Gulf energy resources. The port is close to major energy pipelines of t...
India has retained the 131st position in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index 2026, which covered 145 economies. Iceland topped the list, followed by Finland and Norway. India's overall gender parity...
India has entered the Guinness World Records for building the world's longest steel slag road. The 1.85-km road is located at Raigarh in Chhattisgarh and uses steel slag, a by-product of steelmaking, as road material.
In Geneva, 128 countries agreed by consensus on a text defining Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). LAWS can detect, select and engage targets using pre...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Russian translation of the Thirukkural during their bilateral meeting in New Delhi. The meeting took place ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit, wh...
UNESCO conferred its International Literacy Prizes 2026 on six literacy initiatives from six countries. The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize went to initiatives from Colombia, the Netherlands and Nigeria for multilingua...
India collected 15 medals - four gold, three silver and eight bronze - at the World Archery Para Series Stage III held in Ahmedabad. Sheetal Devi won the women's compound gold, while Toman Kumar and Shyam Sunder Swami to...
The United Nations has designated November 27 as the International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage. The date matters for India because the 'Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat' campaign was launched on Nove...
India hosted a three-day BRICS Chief Justices' Forum in New Delhi ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit. It was inaugurated by Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant. Discussions covered modern jurisprudence, the use of Arti...
India rejected the May 2026 award of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on the maximum pondage allowed at Indian hydro projects under the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960. The dispute involves the Kishenganga (330 MW) and...
Lahore in Pakistan was declared the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism and Cultural Capital for 2026-27 at the 26th SCO Council of Heads of State meeting in Bishkek. The annually rotating title, introduced i...
The International Day against Nuclear Tests is observed on August 29 to highlight the harmful effects of nuclear testing and push for an end to it. The UN General Assembly designated the day in 2009 and it was first mark...
