An Indian Army tank and a BMP during a drill in Jammu. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army is set to bring its Mechanized Infantry Regiment and Armoured Corps under a single directorate from June 1, reversing a separation that had kept the two com...
BSF women mountaineers complete historic Everest bid (Photo: BSF)The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineering achievement. It is, in many ways, a quiet but profound social...
An IAF Sukhoi-30MKI. (File photo)New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has issued a request for proposal to fit all 258 Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets of the Indian Air Force with an advanced anti-jamming, anti-spoofing navigation system. This procurement mo...
New Delhi: The chief of the air staff, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, is expected to fly with the Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) on Tuesday, a symbolic gesture marking three decades since the Indian Air Force’s premier display squadron ...
There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the re...
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 a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
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 the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the coast of ...
BSF women mountaineers after completing historic Everest bid. (Photo: BSF)New Delhi: Four women constables of the Border Security Force (BSF) reached the summit of Mount Everest at 8am on Wednesday, completing the paramilitary force’s first all...
NGOPV Sanghmitra launched by Sarita Vatsayan in Kolkata. (Photo: GRSE)Kolkata: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) on Wednesday launched Sanghamitra, the first next-generation offshore patrol vessel (NGOPV) from its yard, in a ceremony hel...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...