There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the re...
Marco Rubio (L) with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, on May 23, 2026. (Photo: X/@SecRubio)New Delhi: The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, arrived in India on Saturday on a high-stakes visit intended to reinforce a strategic partnership that has been u...
The selfie taken by Maj Gen Sachin Mehta (L) soon after the chopper crash. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A single-engine Cheetah helicopter carrying three Indian Army officers crashed, on Wednesday, in the high-altitude terrain of Tangtse, in eastern Ladak...
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...
The Agni-1 missile that was test-fired, on May 22, 2026.New Delhi: India successfully test-fired the Agni-1 (also spelled Agni I), a surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the coast of ...
BSF women mountaineers after completing historic Everest bid. (Photo: BSF)New Delhi: Four women constables of the Border Security Force (BSF) reached the summit of Mount Everest at 8am on Wednesday, completing the paramilitary force’s first all...
S Jaishankar along with ambassadors from African Union launch the logo, theme and website of 4th India Africa Forum Summit. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: India and the African Union have jointly agreed to postpone the fourth India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS ...
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...
New Delhi: Rashmi Group, the Kolkata-headquartered steel and mining conglomerate with annual revenues of roughly $575 million, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to invest approximately $300 million in Ethiopia’s mining sector.The a...
False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's mi...