Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian Navy Chief Admiral K Swaminathan (L) during commissioning of three vessels (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi/Kolkata: In only the second such ceremony in recent years, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Sunday c...
Vaishali district magistrate Varsha Singh (Photo: special arrangement)Vaishali district magistrate Varsha Singh has launched an initiative that brings career counseling and mentorship directly to students in rural Bihar, many of whom have big aspirat...
PNS Hangor makes port call in Malaysia (Photo: Malaysian Navy)In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank estimated that Pakistan’s poverty rate had reached 40.5 per cent, measured at $3.65 per person per day in 2017 purchasing power parity terms, with...
LRLACM during its test-flight from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha’s coast. (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: India on Monday moved a step closer to fielding a homegrown long-range cruise missile after the Defence Research and Development Organisati...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...
President Droupadi Murmu with first batch of women officers trained at NDA (Photo: MoD)Dehradun/Dundigal/New Delhi: India commissioned its first batch of women officers trained at the National Defence Academy into the Indian Army and the Indian Air F...
MT Liaki Freedom. (Yvon Perchoc photo via Shipspotting.com)New Delhi: A suspected US missile strike on the Marshall Islands-flagged oil and chemical tanker MT Liaki Freedom late on Friday night killed four Indian crew members, according to a person w...
The Strait of Hormuz chokepoint.New Delhi has renewed its demand for safe and unimpeded merchant shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, after a third vessel carrying Indian crew came under attack within a week, taking the toll of Indian seafarer deat...
This AI-enhanced screengrab of a viral amateur video shows smoke coming out of MT Jalveer after being hit by a US missle.New Delhi: Less than 24 hours after three Indian sailors lost their lives in a US Navy strike on the oil tanker Settebello, anoth...
Indian Navy's EOD team neutralizes live missile. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: In a high-stakes maritime operation, the Indian Navy successfully neutralized a live missile warhead embedded inside the crude oil tanker MT Olympic Life, preventing ...