Narendra Modi (L) and Ali Khameini during their meeting on the former’s visit to Tehran, on March 23, 2016. (Photo: Iranian Supreme Leader’s Press Office)When Colonel Douglas Macgregor (retired), the blunt-speaking American military analy...
Vikram Misri signing the condolence book at the Iranian embassy in New Delhi, on March 5, 2026. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: India has at last formally expressed condolences over the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, with the fore...
IRIS Dena during her commissioning ceremony, in 2021. (Photo: Creative Commons/Wikipedia)New Delhi: A torpedo fired by a United States Navy fast-attack submarine has sent the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena to the bottom of the Indian Ocean south of Sri La...
Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi (C), Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla (3L), senior Navy officers on board INS Anjadip after the warship’s commissioning. (Photo: Indian Navy)Chennai: India commissioned its fourth anti-submarine warfare shallow-water cr...
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)The Border Security Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and the Sashastra Seema Bal gua...
An Indian Air Force Rafale fighter carrying two Hammer precision weapons. (Photo via X)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, will co-chair the sixth India-France annual defence dialogue with France’s minister of the armed forces and v...
Nikhil Gupta (C) after being extradited from Prague to New York. (Photo: US Drug Enforcement Administration)New Delhi: Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national who self-described as an international narcotics and weapons trafficker, has pleaded guilty in a N...
The Rafale deal will be the largest single defence procurement in India’s history, if taken to fruition. (File photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council has cleared one of the largest single-day procurement packages in the country’...