Indian and Singaporean warships. (File photo)— By Huma Siddique New Delhi: The second Asean-India Maritime Exercise is set to put an increasingly important question at the center of the Indo-Pacific: how can countries that depend on the se...
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...
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye ink Mecca pact. (Photo: X)New Delhi: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye have signed a trilateral mutual defence agreement in the holy city of Mecca, binding each of the three states to treat an armed ...
— By Aayushi Pandey and Dr Aparaajita PandeyA democracy is not judged by how it behaves when all is calm. Its real character shows when citizens take to the streets to question those who govern them. Elections exist precisely to channel th...
— By Dr Baishali SarkarEvery year, on the full moon of Āṣāḍha, Buddhists across the world pause to remember one of their most sacred days. It marks the Buddha's first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, given...
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has flagged a near two-decade delay in the procurement and induction of the indigenously built Dhanush artillery gun, holding that the lag left the Army making do with ageing, less capable equipment at a time when the...