Suchitra Karthikeyan

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Suchitra Karthikeyan

Story so far: Mauritius won a strategic victory on May 22, 2025, when the United Kingdom (U.K.) officially handed over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands after finalising the political treaty agreed to in October last year. Under the deal, the important naval and bomber base on Diego Garcia — one of the archipelago’s largest island, operated by U.S. forces, will be leased by the U.K. from Mauritius which will maintain sovereignty over the region.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Suchitra Karthikeyan

Story so far: Civic bodies across Maharashtra are finally slated to get elected corporators as the Maharashtra State Election (SEC) has written to the government to begin delimitation of the wards. Post-delimitation, the reservation of seats, voter roll updation will occur, said the SEC to The Hindu on Friday (March 23, 2025). Twenty-nine municipal corporations across the state have been run by administrators as their terms expired in the past three years.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Suchitra Karthikeyan

The story so far: “India has been transformed from a power deficit to a power sufficient nation in past ten years,” announced Union Minister of Power Shripad Naik in a written query in April 3, 2025. An addition of 238 GW in generation capacity since April 2014 spanning 2,01,088 circuit kilometers (ckm) of transmission lines has helped to boost inter-regional transferring capacity to 1,18,740 MW, he noted.

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Suchitra Karthikeyan

Flanked by top Pakistani military officials, Abdur Rauf, a local cleric and a U.S.-designated terrorist, led prayers for those killed on May 7 by Indian attacks, inside Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) headquarters in Muridke, Punjab. Wrapped in Pakistan’s ‘Star and Cresent’ flag, the slain were awarded ‘state honours’, and wreaths were reportedly laid by Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on their remains.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Suchitra Karthikeyan

Story so far: The Indian Armed forces conducted missile strikes on nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Wednesday (May 7, 2025), in retaliation to the terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22, in which 25 Indians and a Nepali citizen were killed. The targeted terror sites include Bahawalpur (Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) stronghold) and Muridke (Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) base).