The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
Lt Gen Rahul R Singh.New Delhi: India’s four-day military operation in May revealed the emergence of a complex adversarial alliance, with China providing real-time intelligence support to Pakistan while Turkey supplied advanced drone technology...
Ali Khamenei (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu.The dust has barely settled on the Middle East’s latest conflagration, yet the contours of a strategic paradox are already emerging. Israel’s audacious Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 20...
Indian Navy and Russian Federation Navy officials on INS Tamal during its commissioning in Russia’s Kalingrad. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The Indian Navy commissioned INS Tamal (F 71) on Tuesday at Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russ...
Abdul Rehman gazed at his sole remaining goat, whose ribs protruded beneath matted fur. For months, the 52-year-old farmer from Kargil had seen his 50-strong herd of goats whittle down to a mere 20. "I didn't know what to do," he s...
Asim Munir’s official portrait when he became the Pakistani army chief in 2022. (Photo: ISPR/Handout)The elevation of Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal by the Shehbaz Sharif government was ne...
Agniveers Passing Out Parade at Assam Regimental Centre in Shillong (Photo: Spear Corps)New Delhi: The Indian Army has commenced the third assessment phase for the inaugural batch of Agniveers, who were inducted in January 2023, as part of a comprehe...
Rajnath Singh with his Chinese counterpart (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Rajnath Singh, on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisations (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting, h...
The crest of Tamal.New Delhi: The Indian Navy will commission its latest stealth multi-role frigate on July 1 at Kaliningrad in Russia, christened as “Tamal”, which is the eighth ship in the series of Krivak-class frigates inducted from R...
Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...