Narendra Modi (L) with Xi Jinping during the October 2024 meeting in Kazan, Russia. (File photo)The arrival of China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in New Delhi on August 18 for the 24th round of special representatives’ talks on the disput...
S-400 representative photo. (India Sentinels)The thunderous applause that greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day announcement still echoes across the ramparts of the Red Fort, but the reverberations of his words – “...
India Sentinels illustration for representation. Even after almost five years since its launch, the System for Pension Administration (Raksha) or SPARSH – the government’s flagship digital pension platform for defence personnel &ndas...
Fresh BSF officers at their passing-out parade at the BSF Academy, Tekanpur (Gwalior), in December 2024. (Photo: BSF)In my previous analysis of India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs), particularly the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), B...
Map showing India’s east and northeast with neighbouring countries’ locations for perspective. (Map not to scale)In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like ti...
Map showing Damak, Nepal; Siliguri Corridor (marked by two thin red lines); Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh; and Gelephu, Bhutan. Also shown is the 2017 India-China standoff site at Doklam. (Google Maps)Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General...
The Supreme Court of India. (File photo)With over a million personnel in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),...
Yarlung Tsangpo river’s “Great Bend” in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, close to India’s Arunachal Pradesh, where the megadam will be built. (Photo courtesy: China News Service)China’s audacious decision to constr...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
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...