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...
Indian Army’s 60 Para Field Hospital loading relief material and medical supplies on an Indian Air Force C-17 transport plane, which departed for Venezuela on June 26, 2026. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: India has launched Operation Amistad, a...
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...
Netra AEW&C. (Screenshot from IAF video.)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India’s indigenous airborne early warning programme reached a definitive milestone on Wednesday when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formally handed...
FWD Supreme Lite concept. (Photo: FWDA)New Delhi: Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA), a Bengaluru-based defence technology firm, has unveiled AI-piloted fighter jet concept, named FWD Supreme. The company simultaneously announced that t...
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...