Narendra Modi during his Independence Speech from the Red Fort, on August 15, 2025.New Delhi: India has announced Mission Sudarshan Chakra, a comprehensive indigenous missile defence system designed to protect the country’s strategic installati...
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...
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...
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),...
Yarlung Tsangpo river’s “Great Bend” in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, close to India’s Arunachal Pradesh, where the megadam will be built. (Photo courtesy: China News Service)China’s audacious decision to constr...
File photo of a Prithvi II missile during its test-firing.New Delhi: India conducted back-to-back tests of two nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said in a release. Although defence officials described...
A BSF soldier stands guard at a border pillar with Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch during patrolling on a specialized all-terrain vehicle. (File photo)India’s western frontier with Pakistan – stretching across Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, R...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo via X/@DalaiLama)New Delhi: China has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with India following the prime minister, Narendra Modi, conveying birthday greetings to the 14th Dalai Lama and the attendance of senior Indian minis...
Indian Navy and Russian Federation Navy officials on INS Tamal during its commissioning in Russia’s Kalingrad. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The Indian Navy commissioned INS Tamal (F 71) on Tuesday at Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russ...
Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...