Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce have announced plans to jointly explore building a sovereign combat engine for India’s AMCA fighter programme, entering a field where France's Safran has already been selected for the aircraft’s more powerful Mk2 engine. Read More

On the eve of India’s 80th Independence Day, the Ministry of Defence has launched one of the Indian Air Force’s most important transport-aircraft procurements in a while. A tender for 60 multirole transport aircraft in a programme estimated at around Rs 1 lakh crore has been issued. Read More

Three decades after “Green Boots” Lance Naik Dorje Morup died descending Everest, the ITBP has begun a costly, high-risk mission to bring his remains home. Read More

India has formally added standard names for 27 places, passes, a lake and a war memorial in Arunachal Pradesh to official Survey of India maps, countering China's years-long campaign to rename locations in the border state. Read More

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye have signed a trilateral defence pact in Mecca that treats an attack on one as an attack on all. Read More

In this op-ed, Dr Aparaajita Pandey writes that the Brazil-Argentina diplomatic rift reflects a deeper ideological polarization in South America, where domestic political divisions and competing geopolitical alignments are increasingly reshaping regional diplomacy. Read More

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