Narendra Modi (2L) shakes hands with Keir Starmer after Piyush Goyal (R) and Jonathan Reynolds signed the free trade deal. (Photo: X/@narendramodi) New Delhi: India and the United Kingdom concluded a comprehensive free trade agreement on Thursda...
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s remaining MiG-21 Bison squadrons will be decommissioned by mid-September, defence officials said on Tuesday. This will bring the curtains down on the longest-servin...
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...
File photo of a Prithvi II missile during its test-firing.New Delhi: India conducted back-to-back tests of two nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said in a release. Although defence officials described...
Akash Prime during its validation test in Ladakh.New Delhi: India has successfully validated its upgraded Akash Prime surface-to-air missile system in challenging high-altitude conditions in Ladakh, destroying two high-speed unmanned targets at 15,00...
A replica of the AK-203 on display at the IRRPL plant at Korwa. (India Sentinels photo)Korwa, Amethi: The Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited (IRRPL) has announced that India’s first fully indigenised AK-203 assault rifle will be delivered by D...
The crash killed 241 out of 242 on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 19 others on ground.New Delhi: The preliminary investigation into the catastrophic Air India Flight 171 crash has revealed that both engine fuel-control switches mysteriously move...
An Indian Air Force Jaguar during a live-fire training operation. (File photo)New Delhi: A twin-seater Jaguar IB trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in an agricultural field near Bhanoda village in Rajasthan’s Churu district on Wed...
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...
Rear Admiral Janak Bevli presents "Wings of Gold" to Sub Lt Aastha Poonia (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Breaking barriers and ushering in a new era for women fighter pilots in the Indian Navy, Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia has become the fi...