An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s remaining MiG-21 Bison squadrons will be decommissioned by mid-September, defence officials said on Tuesday. This will bring the curtains down on the longest-servin...
Lt Gen Sagat Singh.Today, on July 14, India is commemorating the birth anniversary of one of its most formidable military leaders: Lieutenant General Sagat Singh Rathore, PVSM. A man of unyielding resolve, exceptional operational genius, and quiet di...
Ali Khamenei (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu.The dust has barely settled on the Middle East’s latest conflagration, yet the contours of a strategic paradox are already emerging. Israel’s audacious Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 20...
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...
Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir (L) receiving the field marshal’s baton after being promoted to the rank from the country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, and prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif (R).Pakistan’s recent elevation of its army c...
A BSF soldier stands guard near an Indian post at the international border with Pakistan in Jammu. (File photo)The Border Security Force (BSF), designated as the nation’s “first line of defence”, stands sentinel along India’s ...
India Sentinels illustration for representation.New Delhi: Bangladesh has cancelled a ₹179.75 crore ($21 million) defence contract with Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE). This marks the first major defence-deal ...
Tanks seen in action during Exercise Teesta Prahar. (Photo: Indian Army)Siliguri/New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Eastern Command has successfully concluded “Operation Teesta Prahar” – a large-scale integrated field training exerc...
Narendra Modi during his visit to the Adampur airbase in Punjab, which Pakistan falsely claimed to have hit. (Photo: X/@narendramodi)The apparently United States-brokered ceasefire between India and Pakistan on the evening of May 10, 2025, just three...