In this op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, writes about the 2010 Tadmetla ambush, in which 76 CRPF personnel were killed, demanding accountability for leadership failures and justice for the fallen as India celebrates the end of Naxalism. Read More

The Indian Army is set to reunite its tanks and mechanised infantry under a single directorate, drawing on hard lessons from Ukraine and its own Operation Sindoor experience. Read More

India remains among the top contributors of troops even as the multilateral system faces an existential strain. Read More

The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineering achievement but a quiet but profound social statement, Dr Anupama Sikarwar writes. Read More

This procurement move underscores the military’s mounting concerns about electronic-warfare threats from both China and Pakistan. Read More

The ministry of defence has issued a request for information for INAMS Version 2.0, a successor to the navy’s existing armament management platform, setting stringent cybersecurity conditions and demanding full intellectual property transfer to the government. Read More

The Indian Air Force’s nine-aircraft aerobatic team, and the only such formation in Asia, marks three decades of precision flying and the air chief is expected to join a sortie to mark the occasion. Read More

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 reserves collapse, the fuel ships stop arriving, the grid starts to strain – and suddenly the value of what was built, years earlier, in calmer times, becomes impossible to ignore. Read More

The US secretary of state’s four-day visit, capped by a White House invitation for PM Modi, is being read as Washington’s clearest signal yet that it wants to stabilize the rattled ties with India. Read More

The armed forces are still routinely flying helicopters designed in the 1950s and 1960s across the world’s most punishing terrain, and the long-promised replacement programme remains years from delivering at the scale required. Read More