New Delhi: The 32nd meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on India-China Border Affairs concluded in the Indian capital, yielding significant progress in efforts to ease tensions along the line of actual control (L...
Among other things, IAF’s Sukhoi-30MKIs will get an advanced electronic warfare suite. (File photo)New Delhi: To bolster India’s maritime and aerial defence, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by the defence minister, Rajnath ...
BrahMos Aerospace CEO Jaiteerth R Joshi.Hyderabad/New Delhi: A major leadership controversy has erupted at BrahMos Aerospace following the appointment of Dr Jaiteerth R Joshi as chief executive officer. Dr Sivasubramanyam Nambi Naidu, a distinguished...
A French navy Rafale (M). (Photo: French navy)New Delhi: India is set to sign a landmark defence agreement with France for acquiring 26 Rafale (Marine) fighter jets and three Scorpene-class submarines for the Indian Navy, the service chief revealed o...
[This is an excerpt from Iqbal Chand Malhotra’s book “The Nukes, The Jihad, The Hawala, and Crystal Meth: A Tale of Treachery, published by Ink.]As Trump’s presidency wound down, numerous reports emerged from the Pentagon, the Afgha...
Army personnel stand guard near razor-wire barricades outside Manipur’s Leimakhong Army Camp of the 57th Mountain Division. (Photo via FB)In the lush hills and valleys of Manipur, the humanitarian tragedy of unprecedented magnitude continues to...
(File photo of Maoists for representation.) Raipur: In a significant counterinsurgency operation, security forces killed 10 Maoists during a major encounter in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh early Friday morning. The encounter occurred durin...
(File photo for representation.)Mumbai: An Indian Navy submarine collided with a fishing vessel named Marthoma in the Arabian Sea on Thursday night, approximately 70 nautical miles (around 130 kilometres) northwest of Goa. The incident occurred aroun...
Rajnath Singh (L) and Pat Conroy. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh)New Delhi: India and Australia have taken a major step in strengthening their defence ties by signing an agreement allowing mutual midair refuelling of military aircraft. This agreement, annou...
Rajnath Singh (L) wih Admiral Dong Jun in Vientiane, Laos. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, engaged with his Chinese counterpart, Admiral Dong Jun, during the 11th Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (AD...