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...
The world is watching Europeans jump into rivers to cool off in this extreme heat; as the temperatures soar and social media gets bombarded with content of Parisians lamenting the lack of airconditioning; a more sinister pattern gets ignored. Extreme...
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...
Lieutenant General Mohit Malhotra to assume charge as South Western Army commander on July 1 (Photo: X)Jaipur: In a significant leadership transition within the Indian Army, Lieutenant General Mohit Malhotra has been appointed the next general o...
Two Palestinian women in Gaza mourn their children who were killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A UN independent commission of inquiry has concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian ch...
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 image (Photo: X/@AmitShah) New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has suspended a senior officer of deputy inspector general (DIG)-rank and transferred approximately 20 others in what critics are calling a punitive r...
New Delhi: The International Maritime Organization has begun a large-scale evacuation of more than 11,000 sailors still stranded in the Persian Gulf, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran that ended...