Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh at CII Annual Business Summit 2026 in Delhi (Photo: CII)New Delhi: India is moving to allow private companies to manufacture ballistic missiles, a domain long reserved for state-owned defence public sector underta...
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will assume the post of India’s 3rd CDS on May 31, 2026. (File photo) New Delhi: When the post of chief of defence staff was created in late 2019, it was welcomed with fanfare and, almost immediately, misread. That...
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...
VAdm Swaminathan currently serves as FOC-in-C of the Western Naval Command (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan as the next chief of naval staff, setting in motion a leadership transition at the top of ...
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari (8L), and the country’s navy chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf (10R), during the commissioning ceremony of PNS/M Hangor in China’s Sanya, on April 30, 2026. (Photo: Pakistan Navy/Handout)New Delhi: ...
BRICS diplomats at the BRICS MENA meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: A meeting that was meant to project the strength and solidarity of the world’s most consequential emerging-economy bloc ended on Friday, in New Delhi without the one...
Israeli troops at a destroyed south Lebanon village during the current IDF-Hezbollah fighting. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi: The United States president, Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire b...
Thousands of Iranians came out on the streets of various cities in the country to celebrate Tehran’s “victory” in the war. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran came into effect late on Tues...