The Supreme Court of India. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)Officers of the central armed police forces (CAPFs) are trained and conditioned for combat, unlike Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, who are conditioned for civil law enforcement. Combat and l...
ideaForge's advance heavy-lift UAV platform ‘YETI’ (Photo: ideaForge)New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has floated a request for information (RFI) for 2,715 logistic drones for the Indian Army, in what would be the largest single ord...
Assistant Commandant Sonia Sehrawat. (Photo: X) New Delhi: An Instagram story posted by a serving paramilitary officer has become the unlikely flashpoint of a national argument over political neutrality in India’s security forces. The...
Gen Dhiraj Seth. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: General Dhiraj Seth took over as the 31st chief of the Army staff on June 30, inheriting an institution in the middle of its most sweeping reorganization in decades. His in-tray blends structural upheav...
India-Nepal border. (File photo)For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu...
Mahesh Dixit (Photo: X)New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared the appointment of senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Mahesh Dixit as the next director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country’s premier domes...
Representational image (Photo: X/@AmitShah) New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has suspended a senior officer of deputy inspector general (DIG)-rank and transferred approximately 20 others in what critics are calling a punitive r...
Houses set on fire in Kultuh village in Manipur’s Kuki-dominated Kamjong district. (Photo: X/@Vantagemonitor) New Delhi/Imphal: Tensions in Manipur escalated sharply on Thursday, after armed assailants stormed Kultuh village in the Kuki-do...