New Delhi: Taking bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries to a new height, India and the United States on Tuesday signed the crucial India-US Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) that pertains to geospatial intelligence, sh...
INS VikrantThe fascinating story of INS Vikrant’s role in bringing the 1971 war to a conclusion in India’s favour.Heating the iron1971 was an eventful year for the Indian subcontinent. In this year, Amitabh Bachchan got his first Filmfare...
ParliamentNew Delhi: In the backdrop of India-China border standoff in eastern Ladakh, Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday provide some details about the issue to Parliament.“I would like to take some time first to briefly provide some de...
Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakpal (retired), seated in wheelchair.New Delhi: Defying the given perception that Covid-19 is deadly for elderly people, an 98-year-old war veteran from Mumbai has completely recovered from novel coronavirus.Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakp...
A June satellite image showing Chinese military build-up in the Galwan valley. (Photograph: 2020 Planet Labs via Twitter)Since the 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a bloody clash with China’s People’s Liberation Arm...
Commandos from Indian Parachute Regiment during a Republic Day parade. Not so long ago, we, as Indians, were sure about our military dominance in South Asia. We were proud – and also cocky to an extent – about our status as the &ldqu...
July 26 is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery. Were the intelligence agencies not able to convert the information avai...
The weapons-carrying Pakistani drone that the BSF shot down in Kathua, Jammu, on June 20, 2020.The preoccupation of the nation with the happenings in eastern Ladakh has caused the strategic community to lose sight of one significant incident developm...
New Delhi: India on Tuesday condemned the missile and UAV attacks, targeting civilian areas in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia last week.In response to a question on the missile and unmanned aerial vehicle attacks in Saudi Arabia, Ministry of External A...
The current geo-politics and geo-strategy of India-China relations runs counter to the rich, ancient cultural linkages between the countries.Of the four ancient civilised nations namely Egypt, Babylonia, India and China, only the latter two have surv...