— By Prof Shantesh Kumar Singh & Dr Ravi Shankar RajIndia’s Union Budget 2025-26 comprises a strategic approach towards diplomacy that puts focus on promoting regional stability, strengthening bilateral relations with neighb...
The Phillora police station in Pakistan’s Sialkot sector after its capture by Indian forces during the 1965 India-Pakistan war. (Photo: Public Domain)“For the Fighting Fifth”In July 1964, after their challenging deployment in Ladakh...
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue at Pangong-tso. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Fire & Fury (XIV) Corps has constructed a 9-metre-tall statue of the Maratha warrior-king Shivaji Bhonsale I, popularly known as Chhatra...
Dr Manmohan Singh (September 26, 1932 – December 26, 2024)New Delhi: World leaders from various nations expressed profound sorrow and admiration following the passing of Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former prime minister, who died at the ag...
HTS fighters in Damascus. (Photo via X)New Delhi: The decadelong Syrian civil war reached a dramatic turning point as the government of President Bashar al-Assad was toppled, and Damascus fell into the hands of the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
[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...
New Delhi: India has announced a breakthrough in the ongoing military stand-off with China along the line of actual control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, with an agreement on new patrolling arrangements. This development, which could pave the way for a re...
India confronts Pakistan as a hostile adversary along its 3,323-kilometre western front. This frontier encompasses various states as security stakeholders, bearing the brunt of cross-border terrorism and drug-induced social upheaval. These states inc...
Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (October 29, 1962 – October 16, 2024)Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar, the charismatic yet controversial leader of Hamas, was killed while fighting Israeli forces in Gaza. His death in combat dropped the curtains on a tum...
Silhouette of a statue of a soldier at the Walong War Memorial in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district. (Photo: Wikipedia/Palash Datta)The Battle of Walong is one of the lesser-known yet significant episodes of the 1962 India-China. Fought betwee...