Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. (Photo: X/@FollowCII)New Delhi: In an extraordinary public criticism of India’s defence-manufacturing ecosystem, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh has delivered his most scathing assessment yet of persistent...
Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited has accomplished 100% indigenization of MBT Arjun engines. (File photo)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has approved Miniratna “Category I” status for three defence public sector undertakings...
Lt Shashank Tiwari. (Photo: Indian Army) Kalimpong: Lieutenant Shashank Tiwari, a 23-year-old Indian Army officer, died while saving a fellow soldier’s life during a routine military operation in the challenging terrain of North Sikkim dis...
The Golden Temple.New Delhi: A major controversy has erupted in the country following contradictory statements about whether air-defence systems were deployed at the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar during the recent Operation Sindoor hostilities wit...
The ship while it was being built. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: On the shores of Karwar, where the rhythm of the sea speaks of epochs gone by, the Indian Navy is poised to welcome a vessel unlike any other in its modern arsenal – a ship stitc...
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo: X/@BSF_Rajasthan)The Border Security Force (BSF), India’s first line of defence, shoulders the responsibility of guarding approximately 190 kilometres of int...
Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, DGAO, Indian Air Force.The skies over Pakistan fell silent in the predawn darkness of May 7, 2025. Then came the thunder.Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, the director general of air operations of the Indian Air Fo...
A modified IAF Sukhoi-30MKI carrying a BrahMos missile. (File photo: IAF)New Delhi: Operation Sindoor, executed between the late and early hours of May 6 and May 7, was a meticulously planned triservice military operation. The Indian Army, India...
[This is an excerpt from Pushpa Kurup’s book “Malabar, Mysore and A Tale of Two Sultans” with permission from BluOne Ink, the book’s publisher.]Written in secrecy and concealed from view, this mystifying compilation was discov...