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Thursday, January 29, 2026
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Topic: Sherpa

300 meetings & 200-plus hours of negotiations — Amitabh Kant hails ‘dynamic’ team for Delhi declaration

Consensus on Ukraine war toughest, he says. Kant’s team of civil servants & diplomats included Abhay Thakur, Nagaraj Naidu Kakanur, Ashish Kumar Sinha & Eenam Gambhir.

‘Hillary, Tenzing followed my footsteps’ — Sherpa who paved the way to Everest with 25kg load

In ‘Sherpa,’ Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari write how the Sherpa community exists at the edge of life and death in Nepal.

French NGO files corruption complaint against Rafale deal

Sherpa Association’s complaint alleges grant of ‘undue advantages, influence peddling’ etc against Dassault and French government.

On Camera

How Djokovic & his luck outplayed opponents in major tournaments—walkovers to retirements

By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.

India among top 5 for expanding research in critical technologies, despite low R&D investment

The Economic Survey 2025-26 shows India among the top five countries in 45 out of 64 critical technologies in the Critical Technology Tracker.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.