CRPF soldiers in an anti-Maoist operation. (Representational photo)The serial improvised explosive device (IED) blasts by left-wing extremists on February 25 in Bihar’s Gaya district targeting Central Reserve Police Force soldiers, which led to...
Russian and Chinese naval personnel during a joint maritime drill.The Soviet Union’s competition with the United States defined global geopolitics for nearly half a century after World War II. However, with the end of the Cold War, in the early...
Panaji: Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar has said that the Maritime Security and Economic prosperity were inter-related and inter-dependent from times immemorial.Delivering an address at Goa Maritime Conclave, Kumar brought out that the Goa Maritime Conc...
Ashok Dohare.Finally, August 31, 2021, has arrived, but nothing seemed unusual to Ashok Dohare, my batchmate in IPS, except for the fact that it is the time for him to hang up his brown Oxford shoes on the last day of his lengthy khaki career. Howeve...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation in the Gulf region, post attacks on merchant ships in the Gulf of Oman in June 2019, Indian Navy had commenced Maritime Security Operations, code named Op SANKALP, in the Gulf Region ...
Devotees taking holy dip in Ganga during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.Unlike other pathogens, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to be a bit different. It is like Vali, the monkey king with special powers in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Legend has it that ...
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
Srinagar: Lt Gen BS Raju handed over command of the strategic Kashmir-based 15 Corps to Lt Gen DP Pandey on Wednesday.The General commanded the Corps in critical phase in 2020 where Kashmir was confronted with the twin challenges of terrorism and COV...
New Delhi: With initial probe indicating to Iranian link in the blast near Israeli Embassy on Friday evening, the anti- terror probe agency NIA is likely to take over this case from Delhi Police, a source in the security set up said here ...