New Delhi: This year, the government has increased the defence budget to Rs 5.94 lakh crore from last year's allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore in the Union Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is a...
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, before presenting the Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, allocated ₹5.94 lakh crore for the defence sector while announcing the Union Bu...
The Pangong lake in Ladakh. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: India has lost 26 out of 65 patrolling points near the line of actual control in eastern Ladakh, several media reports citing the contents of a research paper said. The reports said Leh’s s...
Narendra Modi.New Delhi: A two-part BBC documentary titled “India: The Modi Question” on the “tensions” between the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the country’s Muslims, which also includes a claim that the United Ki...
Narendra Modi (L) with Benjamin Netanyahu during the former’s July 2017 Israel visit. (Photo: Israeli government)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, had a telephonic conversation with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on...
An Indian soldier keeps watch at the LoC in Kashmir. Capturing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is an ambition repeatedly expressed by our politicians, sometimes directly and sometimes through the military top brass. After the-then chief of Army staff,...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...
File picNew Delhi: Amid fresh spike in border tension with China at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Air Force commenced a two-day major exercise on Thursday in northeastern region of the country, with involving all its frontline platforms, i...
Four IAF Rafale jets and two Sukhoi-30MKI jets flying in a formation. (Photo IAF)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force will carry out a big exercise in the eastern sector on December 15 and 16. This comes days after Indian Army and China’s People&rsq...
Rajnath Singh briefing Parliament on the Indian Army-PLA clash in Arunachal Pradesh.New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, briefed Parliament on the December 9 clash between Indian Army troops and China’s People’s Liberation...