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...
New Delhi: India sent its most senior special forces officer to the United States this week for the first time as a participant, not just an observer, at the world’s largest special operations gathering, signalling a quiet but meaningful step i...
False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's mi...
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...
New Delhi: The government has appointed Meetu Agarwal, a 2010-batch Indian Revenue Service (IT cadre) officer, as Director in the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence, headquartered in New Delhi.The appointment, formali...
Officials of Sagar Defence with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu (Photo: SDEPL)New Delhi: Sagar Defence Engineering signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Andhra Pradesh on May 15 for th...
New Delhi: Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to ...
New Delhi: Bharat Forge Limited, the Pune-based engineering and defence conglomerate controlled by the Kalyani Group, has broken ground on a large-scale munitions manufacturing campus in Andhra Pradesh.The facility, being set up through Agneyastra En...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (File photo)Mumbai: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, will be inaugurating the Shirdi Defence Manufacturing Complex of NIBE Group on May 23–24, in what the Pune-based conglomerate is billing as a milestone in p...
Defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh at CII Annual Business Summit 2026 in Delhi (Photo: CII)New Delhi: India is moving to allow private companies to manufacture ballistic missiles, a domain long reserved for state-owned defence public sector underta...