India test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic missile from Chandipur on Thursday, ending days of speculation triggered by a wide Bay of Bengal airspace alert. Read More

The defence ministry has floated its largest-ever tender for logistic drones, seeking 2,715 units to speed up supply runs to Army posts along the China and Pakistan borders. Read More

India’s High Commission in Suva and the ICCR brought about 400 people together for Fiji’s first Bhajan Jamming, using devotional music to connect the island's Indian diaspora youth with their cultural roots. Read More

In this longread op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, argues that India's CAPSs need a professional, home-grown leadership model, contending that the present command structure undermines morale, operational effectiveness and, ultimately, national security. Read More

The body of Nirmal Purja, the Nepali mountaineer who rose to global fame as “Nimsdai,” was recovered on Broad Peak on Sunday, days after an avalanche tore through his 10-member expedition on the Karakoram giant and buried the entire team. Read More

President Droupadi Murmu flagged off the inaugural President's Bodyguard Soldierathon at Rashtrapati Bhavan, marking 253 years of the PBG and 27 years since the Kargil War victory. Read More

A democracy is not judged by how it behaves when all is calm. Its real character shows when citizens take to the streets to question those who govern them. Elections exist precisely to channel that friction into something orderly – to let grievances play out through representation instead of confrontation. Read More

A joint Army-police operation in Sriganganagar has seized nearly 1,000 metres of counterfeit combat uniform cloth, exposing a supply network linked to an earlier bust in Bareilly. Read More

General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the Indian Army’s first president’s commissioned officer to become chief of the army staff, was cremated with full military honours at Delhi’s Brar Square. Read More

General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the first president’s commissioned officer to lead the Indian Army and the man who steered it through the IPKF, Punjab and Kashmir crises at once, has died in Delhi at 96. Read More