Iran-flagged fishing vessel Iman. (Photo via special arrangement.)New Delhi: The Indian Navy foiled yet another hijacking attempt by suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden-northern Arabian Sea region. This time, the Navy’s INS Sumitra, a ...
Screenshot of a video released by the Indian Navy showing MV Lila Norfolk as MARCOS commandos approach it in a speedboat.New Delhi: The Indian Navy, on Friday, said its special force commandos, MARCOS (acronym of Marine Commandos from its official na...
Modi hands over G20 Presidency to Brazilian President New Delhi: In a significant development, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi handed over G20 Presidency for 2024 to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday after ...
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...
A ground in the Yol cantonment. (Photo: Defence PRO) New Delhi: In a major development, the Narendra Modi-led government moved to abolish Indian Army cantonments across the country after terming creating (and maintaining) them as “archaic ...
Representative image.New Delhi: As Qatar starts the trial process against eight Indian Navy veterans working for the emirate’s subsidiary of Oman-based Dahara Global – a private company, details are slowly emerging on why the Indian ex-se...
PHK Singh (R) during his inspection trip at the Se-la tunnel. (Photo: Defence PRO - Tezpur)Tezpur: The additional director general of Border Roads Organization (East), PKH Singh, inspected the progress made in the construction of the strategic Se-la ...
File photo of veterans protesting against the non-implementation of OROP, as it was originally defined.“One rank, one pension” or OROP has been a long and outstanding demand of the veterans of India’s three services – Arm...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...