Sanae Takaichi (R) waving to her lands welcome party in Delhi’s Palam airport. (Photo: X/@takaichi_sanae)New Delhi: Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday evening for a three-day visit for the 16th India...
India-Nepal border. (File photo)For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu...
New Delhi: The Indian Army has formally decided to raise specialised drone battalions named “Baaz” – the Hindi word for hawk – under the Army Aviation Corps. It is considered as a move that marks one of the more substanti...
Indian Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi interacts with troops during an exercise. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army on Monday debunked media reports claiming that troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had encroached in...
GE F-414 jet engine (Photo: X)Two GE Aerospace engines – two programmes, two separate crises – have placed India’s indigenous fighter aviation ambitions under a degree of stress that is difficult to explain purely by market forces o...
Netra AEW&C. (Screenshot from IAF video.)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India’s indigenous airborne early warning programme reached a definitive milestone on Wednesday when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formally handed...
Mahesh Dixit (Photo: X)New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared the appointment of senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Mahesh Dixit as the next director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country’s premier domes...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...
A Zorawar tank during field trials. (File photo) New Delhi: The Indian Army now expects to induct the indigenous Zorawar light tank between 2028 and 2029, with the Army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, saying issues identified during development ...