The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
Map of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Aksai Chin is shown in red, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in green. (Map not to scale.)New Delhi: China is building tunnels and bunkers just 70 kilometres from the line of actual control in Aksai Chin, at least two ...
New Delhi: Days before the G20 summit in which the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is expected to visit the Indian capital, Beijing has released its official “standard map” of the People’s Republic of China showing parts of Indi...
This two-photo combination shows an under-construction Chinese village, in 2019, and the fully built village, in 2021, inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. (Photo: Maxar/Twitter)New Delhi: China is rapidly raising border settlements all alon...
Indian Army convoy (PC: Twitter)New Delhi: The defence ministry intends to procure 2,150 high-mobility vehicles for the Indian Army to operate along the line of actual control with China and line of control with Pakistan.The high-mobility vehicles wi...
New Delhi: The Indian armed forces are likely to break tradition of naming its integrated theatre commands (ITCs) based on their geographical area of operations, like several countries, and number them instead, media reports said on Tuesday. The Indi...
A SeaGuardian drone. (Photo: General Atomics) New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, gave its green signal to the armed forces to purchase 31 MQ-9B SeaGuardian, also known as Predator B, drone...
Rajnath Singh. (File photo)New Delhi: India will soon hold talks with the United States and Germany to enhance defence cooperation, especially for collaboration in building defence equipment in India with US and German technology. From the Indian sid...
A model of a Sukhoi-30MKI fitted with a BrahMos missile at display during the DefExpo – 2022 in Gandhinagar, in October 2022. (File photo)New Delhi: The chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari said that the IAF is l...