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...
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...
Marco Rubio (L) with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, on May 23, 2026. (Photo: X/@SecRubio)New Delhi: The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arrived in India on Saturday on a high-stakes visit intended to reinforce a strategic partnership that has been u...
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 ...
S Jaishankar along with ambassadors from African Union launch the logo, theme and website of 4th India Africa Forum Summit. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: India and the African Union have jointly agreed to postpone the fourth India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS ...
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...
An Indian Army convoy. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army will be using trains as its primary mode of transport for the periodic relocation of units stationed across the country. Sources in the defence established confirmed the devel...
A Suryastra rocket-launcher system.Pune: Private sector defence technology firm Nibe Limited on Wednesday announced that it has successfully completed test-firing of its Suryastra universal rocket-launcher system. This marks a major milestone for ind...