India’s AMCA programme faces a fresh engine challenge as GE Aerospace’s F414 pricing balloons to nearly three times initial estimates, pushing the Aeronautical Development Agency to evaluate alternatives while Safran and Rolls-Royce intensify their bids for the more powerful AMCA-Mk2 engine contract. Read More

The UN’s maritime agency has launched a phased, tightly controlled operation to bring home crews trapped for nearly four months in the Gulf following the peace truce between Washington and Tehran. Fourteen seafarers did not survive the wait. Read More

Seventy-five officers from the 91st Technical Entry Course and the 9th University Entry Scheme gathered at the Indian Military Academy on June 20, 2025, to mark 25 years since they were commissioned into the Indian Army. Read More

The stealth frigate INS Mahendragiri and the anti-submarine warfare vessel INS Malvan are set to join the fleet next month. It reinforces India’s push for maritime self-reliance as strategic competition intensifies in the Indian Ocean. Read More

NSA Ajit Doval met Iran’s SNSC deputy secretary Ghadir Nezamipour in New Delhi on the sidelines of the BRICS National Security Advisers’ Meeting, with talks covering West Asia’s deteriorating security situation, India-Iran bilateral ties and regional connectivity. Read More

The United States has approved a defence sustainment package worth $482.2 million for India aimed at keeping key frontline platforms, including AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and M777A2 ultra-light howitzers, fully operational over the long term. Read More

40 Indian Student Ambassadors selected to drive EU-India academic and people-to-people exchange; deepening the people-centered dimension of the EU-India Strategic Partnership. Read More

Indian defence technology firm Anadrone Systems and US-listed Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have formalized a strategic agreement to jointly pursue contracts in India's fast-growing market for unmanned and autonomous systems, a sector projected to nearly triple in value to $1.9 billion by 2034. Read More

The simultaneous induction of a stealth frigate, a survey vessel and an anti-submarine warfare craft, all designed and built in India, signals a decisive shift in the country’s defence manufacturing ambitions. Read More

As disinformation increasingly decides whose suffering is seen and whose is erased, Jeethu Elza Cherian Chacko makes the case for a new doctrine – Algorithmic R2P – drawing on Manipur and Myanmar as warnings of what happens when conflict narratives are left to the algorithm. Read More