INS Vikrant (File photo)South of the Nicobar Islands, a Chinese survey ship spends weeks mapping the seabed. Officially, it studies marine geology. In practice, it collects bathymetry, salinity layers and acoustic profiles, the exact data a submarine...
Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Super Hercules. (File photo)— By HumaNew Delhi: On the eve of India’s 80th Independence Day, the Ministry of Defence has launched one of the Indian Air Force’s most important transport-aircraft procure...
ITBP prepares to bring its fallen climber home. (Photo: X)New Delhi: For nearly three decades, a body wrapped in weathered green mountaineering boots has served as a macabre waypoint for climbers pushing towards the summit of Mount Everest from its n...
Nirmal Sherpa with SBS flag after conquering a summit.New Delhi: The body of Nirmal Purja, the Nepali mountaineer known globally as “Nimsdai”, was recovered on Broad Peak on Sunday, days after an avalanche tore through his 10-member exped...
General Vishwa Nath Sharma – June 4, 1930–July 31, 2026 (India Sentinels rendition of an old official photo.)New Delhi: General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the first president’s commissioned officer to rise to command of the Indian Army, ha...
A UAE-flagged ship after being hit with a missile during the current US-Iran war. (Photo: X)New Delhi: The deaths of four Indian seafarers in Russia’s missile strike on the merchant vessel MV Golden Leo have intensified concerns among India&rsq...
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker.On a December morning in 1971, four Hawker Hunters of the Indian Air Force’s 20 Squadron thundered 120 kilometres into Pakistani territory to strike an airbase most commanders would have judged beyond safe r...