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...
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...
Asim Munir’s official portrait when he became the Pakistani army chief in 2022. (Photo: ISPR/Handout)The elevation of Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal by the Shehbaz Sharif government was ne...
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...
A model of the AMCA on display at the Aero India 2021. (File photo) New Delhi: India has taken a landmark step towards strengthening its indigenous defence manufacturing by opening its most ambitious aerospace project – the advanced medium...
— By Suyash RaiWhen I began my career optimizing 3G networks in India, the biggest challenge was improving signal strength and minimizing dropped calls. Back then, radio frequency (RF) engineers relied on drive-test data and human intuition. To...
Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir (L) receiving the field marshal’s baton after being promoted to the rank from the country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, and prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif (R).Pakistan’s recent elevation of its army c...
A BSF soldier stands guard near an Indian post at the international border with Pakistan in Jammu. (File photo)The Border Security Force (BSF), designated as the nation’s “first line of defence”, stands sentinel along India’s ...