Admiral Krishna Swaminathan. New Delhi: Admiral Krishna Swaminathan took command on Sunday as the 27th chief of the naval staff. He now steps into the role at a time when the service is pushing hard on modernization and facing intensifying strat...
A BrahMos missile. (Photo: IMDS/Public Domain) New Delhi: The defence secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, confirmed on Saturday that a deal to supply BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Vietnam has already been signed, while negotiations with Indon...
An S-400 battery.New Delhi: India and Russia are in active negotiations for the purchase of an additional batch of S-400 “Triumf” (rechristened “Sudarshan Chakra” in India) long-range air-defence systems, Moscow confirmed on T...
The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
New Delhi: Leading private sector firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has entered a strategic collaboration with France-based Exail to deliver an advanced unmanned mine counter-measure (MCM) suite for the Indian Navy’s mine countermeasure vessel...
The Agni missile with MIRV that was tested, on May 8, 2026. (Photo: MoD) New Delhi: Shortly after sunset on Friday, residents across coastal Odisha and as far as Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh looked up to see a luminous, comet-like trail strea...
New Delhi: Marking a significant step in India's push for defence self-reliance in the defence sector, Europe's largest missile manufacturer MBDA on Wednesday inked an agreement with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to establish a domestic maintena...
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari (8L), and the country’s navy chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf (10R), during the commissioning ceremony of PNS/M Hangor in China’s Sanya, on April 30, 2026. (Photo: Pakistan Navy/Handout)New Delhi: ...
Israeli troops at a destroyed south Lebanon village during the current IDF-Hezbollah fighting. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi: The United States president, Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire b...