Gen Dhiraj Seth. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: General Dhiraj Seth took over as the 31st chief of the Army staff on June 30, inheriting an institution in the middle of its most sweeping reorganization in decades. His in-tray blends structural upheav...
Relatives and helpers carrying bodies of children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (Photo via Yaqeen Institute)This author has stood over the bodies of children before – dead children, mutilated children, dead children with mutilated bodi...
India-Nepal border. (File photo)For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu...
Netra AEW&C. (Screenshot from IAF video.)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India’s indigenous airborne early warning programme reached a definitive milestone on Wednesday when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formally handed...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...
Sub Lieutenant Astha Tyagi (L) and Sub Lieutenant Akanksha Tyagi (3R) with their parents. (Photo: Facebook/Doon Defence Academy)New Delhi: When Sub Lieutenant Akanksha Tyagi passed out of the Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, last week, ...
U Min Aung Hlaing (L) with Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, on June 1, 2026. (Photo: MEA) New Delhi: Myanmar’s president, U Min Aung Hlaing, assured the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Monday that Naypyidaw would not permit I...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...