The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
New Delhi: India sent its most senior special forces officer to the United States this week for the first time as a participant, not just an observer, at the world’s largest special operations gathering, signalling a quiet but meaningful step i...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will assume the post of India’s 3rd CDS on May 31, 2026. (File photo) New Delhi: When the post of chief of defence staff was created in late 2019, it was welcomed with fanfare and, almost immediately, misread. That...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan as the next flag officer commanding in chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command, headquartered in Mumbai. VAdm Vatsayan,...
The Agni missile with MIRV that was tested, on May 8, 2026. (Photo: MoD) New Delhi: Shortly after sunset on Friday, residents across coastal Odisha and as far as Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh looked up to see a luminous, comet-like trail strea...
A Pakistani air force J-10C fighter, supplied by China. (Photo for representation.)New Delhi: China has officially acknowledged, for the first time, that its engineers were deployed at a Pakistani airbase during last May’s military conflict wit...
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)On December 1, 2025, the Border Security Force marked its Diamond Jubilee – 60 years...
Lt Gen Zubin A Minwalla.Jaipur: A year after Operation Sindoor reshaped India’s military thinking, the country’s armed forces are accelerating a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s air-defence framework – one designed to c...