The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo via X/@DalaiLama)New Delhi: China has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with India following the prime minister, Narendra Modi, conveying birthday greetings to the 14th Dalai Lama and the attendance of senior Indian minis...
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...
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv. (Viral photo via X)New Delhi: The Middle East stands on the precipice of a wider regional conflict as Israel’s unprecedented military operation against Iran enters ...
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...
Handout photo released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps shows smoke billowing from a site targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran.New Delhi: Israel launched its most devastating assault on Iranian territory since the Iran-Iraq wa...
Indian parliamentary delegation holds discussion with Hailemariam Dessalegn (Photo: Indian embassy in Ethiopia)New Delhi: Hailemariam Dessalegn, Ethiopia’s former prime minister, extended his condolences on Friday to the victims of the recent t...
Flag of Indian armed forces.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has taken a major step towards enhancing the integration of the three services by notifying rules under the Inter-Services Organizations (Command, Control and Discipline) Act, 2023. The m...
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 ...
In a world increasingly vulnerable to terrorism and geopolitical brinkmanship, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, delivered a pointed message following India’s recent Operation Sindoor: “Nuclear blackmail will not come in the way of anti-...