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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)…
INS Vikrant New Delhi: Three years of real-world conflict – the Israel-Hamas war, Israel & US-Iran war, Houthi strikes on commercial shipping, China’s naval build-up &n…
Marco Rubio (L) with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, on May 23, 2026. (Photo: X/@SecRubio)New Delhi: The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arrived in India on Saturday on a high-stakes visit …
The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded …
The Agni-1 missile that was test-fired, on May 22, 2026.New Delhi: India successfully test-fired the Agni-1 (also spelled Agni I), a surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile, from t…
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In July 1999, the prime minister-headed Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved one of the most ambitious naval m…
Defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh at CII Annual Business Summit 2026 in Delhi (Photo: CII)New Delhi: India is moving to allow private companies to manufacture ballistic missiles, a domai…
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will assume the post of India’s 3rd CDS on May 31, 2026. (File photo) New Delhi: When the post of chief of defence staff was created in late 2019, it was…
The Agni missile with MIRV that was tested, on May 8, 2026. (Photo: MoD) New Delhi: Shortly after sunset on Friday, residents across coastal Odisha and as far as Cox’s Bazar in B…
VAdm Swaminathan currently serves as FOC-in-C of the Western Naval Command (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan as the next chief of naval st…
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari (8L), and the country’s navy chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf (10R), during the commissioning ceremony of PNS/M Hangor in China’s Sanya,…
BRICS diplomats at the BRICS MENA meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: A meeting that was meant to project the strength and solidarity of the world’s most consequential emergi…
