Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit. (Photo: IDS)New Delhi: The government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit the next vice-chief of the air staff (VCAS) of the Indian Air Force, placing one of the service’s most experienced fighter pilots and sen...
File photo of Indian troops under Unifil mission in south Lebanon near Israel border.New Delhi: The number of troops and other personnel deployed on international peacekeeping missions has fallen to its lowest level in at least a quarter century, wit...
There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the re...
False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's mi...
New Delhi: 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 ...
The Agni missile with MIRV that was tested, on May 8, 2026. (Photo: MoD) New Delhi: Shortly after sunset on Friday, residents across coastal Odisha and as far as Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh looked up to see a luminous, comet-like trail strea...
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)On December 1, 2025, the Border Security Force marked its Diamond Jubilee – 60 years...
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo for representation via X/@BSF_Rajasthan)When the-then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, wrote to KF Rustamji, the director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), ...