New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has flagged a near two-decade delay in the procurement and induction of the indigenously built Dhanush artillery gun, holding that the lag left the Army making do with ageing, less capable equipment at a time when the...
The controversial painting in the background is now removed from Army chief's office (File photo)New Delhi: The wood-panelled lounge at South Block, where the Indian Army chief receives visiting dignitaries, has quietly acquired a new look. The p...
An Indian Army tank and a BMP during a drill in Jammu. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army is set to bring its Mechanized Infantry Regiment and Armoured Corps under a single directorate from June 1, reversing a separation that had kept the two com...
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...
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani meets soldiers (File photo)New Delhi: The government has appointed Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani as the next chief of defence staff (CDS), filling the country’s most senior military post as the incumbent, Ge...
Testing of a ramjet-assisted artillery shell (Photo: IIT-Madras)New Delhi: In a major leap in artillery design and breakthrough in defence technology, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has developed a ramjet-assisted artillery shells that dr...
The site of the car-bomb blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.On the evening of November 10, the national capital was rocked by a powerful explosion that tore through a slow-moving Hyundai i20 at a traffic signal outside Red Fort Metro station. The blas...
INSV Kaundinya with the Gandabherunda insignia on its sail. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy ceremonially inducted INSV Kaundinya, a full-scale stitched sail ship inspired by the seafaring ingenuity of 5th-century India, into its sailin...
The ship while it was being built. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: On the shores of Karwar, where the rhythm of the sea speaks of epochs gone by, the Indian Navy is poised to welcome a vessel unlike any other in its modern arsenal – a ship stitc...
Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, DGMO, Indian Army.In the darkest hours before dawn on May 7, 2025, as the world slept, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai stood in the Indian military’s high-security command centre in New Delhi, his eyes fixed on tact...