Pralay missile. Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) conducted two consecutive successful flight-tests of India’s first indigenously developed tactical quasi-ballistic missile – Pralay from Dr...
PM Narendra Modi dedicates North Cargo Berth - III to the Nation (Photo: X/@sarbanandsonwal)By Vikas LochabTuticorin: The VO Chidambaranar Port Authority (VOCPA), a cornerstone of southern India’s maritime trade, marks a significant milestone t...
Yarlung Tsangpo river’s “Great Bend” in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, close to India’s Arunachal Pradesh, where the megadam will be built. (Photo courtesy: China News Service)China’s audacious decision to constr...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
An IAF Sukhoi-30MKI test-firing an Astra BVRAAM in 2019. (File photo)New Delhi: India’s defence capabilities received a significant boost on Friday, as the indigenous Astra beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) successfully demonstrat...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
File photo of the defence minister, Rajnath Singh.New Delhi: The defence minister-headed Defence Acquisition Council has approved 10 major capital acquisition proposals worth approximately ₹1.05 lakh crore, marking the country’s most sign...
Asim Munir’s official portrait when he became the Pakistani army chief in 2022. (Photo: ISPR/Handout)The elevation of Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal by the Shehbaz Sharif government was ne...
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. (Photo: Nasa)New Delhi: Indian Air Force test pilot Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become the first Indian gaganyatri (Indian term for astronaut) to reach the International Space Station. This marked a historic m...
INS Arnala commissioned in the presence of Gen Anil Chauhan (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Indian Navy on Wednesday commissioned its first anti-submarine warfare shallow-water craft – INS Arnala into the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam, ...