The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
Ali Khamenei (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu.The dust has barely settled on the Middle East’s latest conflagration, yet the contours of a strategic paradox are already emerging. Israel’s audacious Operation Rising Lion, launched on June, deliv...
Asim Munir’s official portrait when he became the Pakistani army chief in 2022. (Photo: ISPR/Handout)The elevation of Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Asim Munir, to the rank of field marshal by the Shehbaz Sharif government was ne...
Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...
Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani (L) with Diehl Defence’s Helmut Rauch. (Photo: Reliance Defence)Mumbai: Reliance Defence Limited has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Germany’s Diehl Defence to manufacture terminally guide...
HAL receives first centre fuselage assembly for LCA Mk1A (Photo: HAL)Bengaluru: In a significant boost to India’s indigenous defence manufacturing capabilities, state-owned plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) received the first cent...
Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. (Photo: X/@FollowCII)New Delhi: In an extraordinary public criticism of India’s defence-manufacturing ecosystem, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh has delivered his most scathing assessment yet of persistent...
A model of the AMCA on display at the Aero India 2021. (File photo) New Delhi: India has taken a landmark step towards strengthening its indigenous defence manufacturing by opening its most ambitious aerospace project – the advanced medium...
— By Suyash RaiWhen I began my career optimizing 3G networks in India, the biggest challenge was improving signal strength and minimizing dropped calls. Back then, radio frequency (RF) engineers relied on drive-test data and human intuition. To...