India has requested Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, to India from its soil. Islamabad says it has no bilateral treaty with New Delhi to facilitate such a process. Read More

The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has signed an agreement with the Union home ministry and Assam government to formally shun violence and disband the militant outfit. However, Paresh Baruah’s Ulfa (I) faction still remains an issue. Read More

The eight former Indian Navy officers whose death sentence has been commuted by a court of appeal in Qatar will now have to serve between three and 25 years in a Qatari prison. However, it would be tough for India to get these men back to India before the completion of their sentences. Read More

A memorial erected by Indian soldiers a few years ago on the spot where Major Shaitan Singh, one of the nation’s most celebrated war heroes, fell fighting the Chinese in the 1962 war’s Battle of Rezang-la, has been razed to create a buffer zone between India and China as part of the deal to de-escalate tensions along the LAC. Read More

In what should come as an immediate but temporary relief to India, a Qatari court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of eight former Indian Navy personnel to varying prison terms. Read More

To address maritime threats in the Indian Ocean Region, India will soon establish a watchdog tentatively named National Maritime Domain Awareness Centre. The NMDAC will also closely monitor China’s growing naval presence in the IOR. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited J&K to assess the security situation along the LoC. He was accompanied by the Army chief, General Manoj Pande. Singh also met the family members of three civilians allegedly killed by the Army. Read More

A blast occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area, on Tuesday. However, there are no reports of any injuries in the incident. Agencies have intensified their probe into the incident. Read More

In this write-up, geopolitical scholar and policymaker Akanksha Chopra gives a primer on the Israel-Palestine conflict by discussing its genesis and gives her opinion to arrive at a lasting solution. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, commissioned the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Imphal in Mumbai in the presence of the Maharashtra chief minister, Eknath Shinde, and the Navy chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar. Read More