Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to insulate personnel from external ideological influence. Read More

Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf. It was presented, as every milestone in this programme has been presented, as a moment of national achievement. Read More

The government has officially deployed a nationwide mobile-based disaster communication system, led jointly by the Department of Communications and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Read More

Pakistan’s activation of an overland trade route to Iran -- forced by the US-Israel strikes and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz -- has placed Islamabad in an uncomfortable but strategically significant position: simultaneously a sanctions-circumvention conduit in Washington’s eyes and America’s most indispensable mediator in the very conflict driving the crisis. Read More

SUPARCO launched its EO-3 satellite – the third and final unit in its PRSC-EO Earth observation constellation – aboard a Long March 6 rocket on April 25, completing a three-satellite indigenous imaging architecture that has been under construction since early 2025. Read More

Every year, on the full moon of Vaishakha, Buddhists across the world stop. Lamps are lit. Monasteries fill with chanting. This year the day carries something extra - the exposition of Holy Relics in Ladakh, timed to the 2569th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha. Read More

China's infrastructure investment in Nepal runs deeper than roads and dams. From surveillance systems to security cooperation, a structural analysis of what Beijing is really building. Read More

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) marked its 77th Foundation Day on Wednesday, with Director General K. Nandini Singla stating that Indian civilisational values are gaining renewed relevance at a time when the world is witnessing conflicts, wars and growing anxiety. Read More

The Indian Army is set to host the second edition of the ‘Surya Devbhoomi Challenge’, a high-altitude endurance event, from April 16 to 20 across the Char Dham Himalayan corridor of Uttarakhand. Read More

Indian Army inaugurates Phase III of 155 Base Hospital at Tezpur, boosting military healthcare infrastructure in the Eastern Theatre with a ₹112.82 crore project. Read More