Anas Jamal Mahmoud al-Sharif (December 3, 1996 – August 11, 2025).New Delhi: An Israeli airstrike just before midnight on Sunday destroyed a clearly marked press tent near al-Shifa Hospital’s main entrance in Gaza City, killing six journa...
Fresh BSF officers at their passing-out parade at the BSF Academy, Tekanpur (Gwalior), in December 2024. (Photo: BSF)In my previous analysis of India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs), particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), B...
Map showing India’s east and northeast with neighbouring countries’ locations for perspective. (Map not to scale)In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like ti...
Donald Trump (L) and Narendra Modi.New Delhi: The United States president, Donald Trump, has imposed sweeping 50% tariffs on India. This marks the most severe deterioration in bilateral relations since the countries began their strategic partnership ...
This is an excerpt from P Sesh Kumar’s book “Perils of Administrative Spectrum Allocation to Starlink.”Technological Distinctions Between Starlink and 5G Star link and 5G represent two different paradigms of internet connectivi...
Map showing Damak, Nepal; Siliguri Corridor (marked by two thin red lines); Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh; and Gelephu, Bhutan. Also shown is the 2017 India-China standoff site at Doklam. (Google Maps)Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General...
A comprehensive annual maintenance contract for the S-400 long-range air-defence missile system also received approval.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence’s Defence Acquisition Council has approved a comprehensive military modernization package ...
An artist’s impression of the Nisar satellite orbiting Earth. (Image: Nasa) New Delhi: The groundbreaking Nisar (Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Srihar...
Lt Gen R Srinivasan (R) shakes hand with Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in Thimpu, on July 30, 2025. (Photo: BRO) New Delhi: The director general of Border Roads Organization, Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan, is currently...
The Supreme Court of India. (File photo)With over a million personnel in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),...