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

In this op-ed, Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee (R) says going by Ukraine’s recent strikes deep inside Russia targeting the country’s energy infrastructure and civilian sites, and Moscow’s warnings, a devastating retaliatory attack on Ukraine and/or its European backers is on the cards. Read More

India on Thursday successfully test-fired the Agni-1, a surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. Read More

Four women constables of the Border Security Force (BSF) reached the summit of Mount Everest at 8am on Wednesday, completing the paramilitary force’s first all-women ascent of the world’s highest peak. Read More

The fourth India-Africa Forum Summit, set for New Delhi from May 28-31, has been called off indefinitely as Ebola and mpox continue to spread across parts of the African continent. Read More

A high-level delegation led by the general officer commanding-in-chief, western command, Lieutenant General Pushpendra Pal Singh, participated in SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, Florida, where Indian special forces demonstrated capabilities in counter-terrorism, jungle warfare and high-altitude operations for the first time at the US military’s flagship special operations gathering. Read More