Gen Dhiraj Seth. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: General Dhiraj Seth took over as the 31st chief of the Army staff on June 30, inheriting an institution in the middle of its most sweeping reorganization in decades. His in-tray blends structural upheav...
Relatives and helpers carrying bodies of children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (Photo via Yaqeen Institute)This author has stood over the bodies of children before – dead children, mutilated children, dead children with mutilated bodi...
New Delhi: India and Japan on Thursday expanded their Special Strategic and Global Partnership in a major way after signing a series of agreements spanning artificial intelligence, defence, economic security, energy resilience and critical technologi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi (L) in Delhi. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: India and Japan on Thursday formally inked an agreement for the joint development of the Unified Complex Radio Antenna – or UNICORN &...
Sanae Takaichi (R) waving to her lands welcome party in Delhi’s Palam airport. (Photo: X/@takaichi_sanae)New Delhi: Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday evening for a three-day visit for the 16th India...
Gen Upendra Dwivedi (R) hands over the baton to new Indian Army chief Gen Dhiraj Seth. (Photo: ADGPI) New Delhi: General Dhiraj Seth on Tuesday assumed charge as the 31st chief of the Army staff (COAS), succeeding General Upendra Dwivedi, who re...
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...