BSF women mountaineers complete historic Everest bid (Photo: BSF)The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineering achievement. It is, in many ways, a quiet but profound social...
New Delhi: The chief of the air staff, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, is expected to fly with the Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) on Tuesday, a symbolic gesture marking three decades since the Indian Air Force’s premier display squadron ...
There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the re...
Marco Rubio (L) with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, on May 23, 2026. (Photo: X/@SecRubio)New Delhi: The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arrived in India on Saturday on a high-stakes visit intended to reinforce a strategic partnership that has been u...
The selfie taken by Maj Gen Sachin Mehta (L) soon after the chopper crash. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A single-engine Cheetah helicopter carrying three Indian Army officers crashed, on Wednesday, in the high-altitude terrain of Tangtse, in eastern Ladak...
The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
New Delhi: India sent its most senior special forces officer to the United States this week for the first time as a participant, not just an observer, at the world’s largest special operations gathering, signalling a quiet but meaningful step i...
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...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...