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...
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...
Dehradun: The Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun was the venue on June 20, 2025, for a silver jubilee reunion of officers who entered service through two distinct streams a quarter century ago, the 91st Technical Entry Course (TEC) and the 9th...
New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission two more indigenously built warships – INS Mahendragiri and INS Malvan – next month, pressing ahead with the fastest sustained fleet expansion in its recent history.The stealth frigate ...
NSA Ajit Doval (L) with Iran's top security envoy Ghadir Nezamipour in Delhi. (Photo: MEA) New Delhi: The national security advisor, Ajit Doval, met Ghadir Nezamipour, the deputy secretary for defence affairs of Iran’s Supreme National...
Apache helicopter (File photo)New Delhi: The United States has approved a defence sustainment package worth $482.2 million for India aimed at keeping key frontline platforms, including AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and M777A2 ultra-light howitzers...