An Indian Air Force Rafale fighter carrying two Hammer precision weapons. (Photo via X)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, will co-chair the sixth India-France annual defence dialogue with France’s minister of the armed forces and v...
Narendra Modi hugging Vladimir Putin after the latter landed in New Delhi, on December 4, 2025. (Photo: PMO) New Delhi: The Russian president Vladimir Putin, has landed in New Delhi on Thursday night for his 2-day state visit to India. He was re...
The site of the car-bomb blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.On the evening of November 10, the national capital was rocked by a powerful explosion that tore through a slow-moving Hyundai i20 at a traffic signal outside Red Fort Metro station. The blas...
Narendra Modi (L) and Donald Trump. (File photo for representation.)Thank you, Donald Trump. No, really. I mean it. As someone who spent three decades in olive green defending India’s borders and another decade analysing geopolitics, I never th...
S Jaishankar with Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi (L). (Photo: X/@DrSJaishankar) New Delhi: India has outlined an ambitious programme of development assistance to Afghanistan, including the construction of hospitals, trauma centres and maternity clini...
Foreign Ministers of India and Afghanistan hold bilateral meeting in Delhi New Delhi: Upgrading its ties with Afghanistan, India announced on Friday to reopen its embassy in Kabul after the foreign ministers of two countries held bilateral meeti...
Chabahar port.New Delhi: The United States has delivered a major blow to India’s strategic interests by revoking the sanctions waiver for Iran’s Chabahar port, effective September 29, 2025. The renewed “maximum pressure” campa...
Vladimir Putin (L), Narendra Modi (C), and Xi Jinping at the SCO Summit in Tianjin, on September 1, 2025.The evolving strategic scenario in Asia, marked by China’s military ascendancy and America’s recalibrated foreign-policy approach, de...