New Delhi: On World Environment Day, Penguin Random House released a book that is part memoir, part conservation chronicle – ‘Ghosts on Peepal Trees’, written by the veteran environmentalist widely known as ‘Peepal Baba’...
New Delhi: The fourth Kathmandu Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) opens on June 6 at Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu, running for two days under the theme “Beyond Borders: South Asian Literature in a Changing World.” Writers, scholars, musicians,...
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...
Adm Dinesh K Tripathi and Adm Krishna Swaminathan (L) at South Block New Delhi: Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi retired on May 31, 2026, as the 26th chief of the naval staff, closing a 25-month tenure that will be remembered for record ...
Major Prabhat Mishra (Photo: X/Warrior_Mukul)New Delhi: In the rolling hills of Kansas, inside the storied halls of the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States, history was quietly made by a young Ind...
Gen NS Raja Subramani. (Photo: HQ IDS) New Delhi: General NS Raja Subramani, a former Indian Army commander, formally assumed charge as India’s third chief of defence staff (CDS) on Sunday, succeeding General Anil Chauhan, who retired afte...
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...
Gen Anil Chauhan.New Delhi: After more than four decades in uniform, the chief of defence staff, General Anil Chauhan, hung up his boots on Saturday. This brings to a close one of the most consequential tenures in India’s higher defence establi...