Map showing Damak, Nepal; Siliguri Corridor (marked by two thin red lines); Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh; and Gelephu, Bhutan. Also shown is the 2017 India-China standoff site at Doklam. (Google Maps)Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General...
Pragya Thakur (R) and Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit.Mumbai/New Delhi: A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai acquitted all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, on Thursday. This puts an end to a 17-year legal saga tha...
Nimisha Priya.New Delhi: The fate of Nimisha Priya, a 38-year-old Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen, remains shrouded in uncertainty after conflicting claims about her sentence status created diplomatic confusion between Indian religious leaders and...
Yarlung Tsangpo river’s “Great Bend” in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, close to India’s Arunachal Pradesh, where the megadam will be built. (Photo courtesy: China News Service)China’s audacious decision to constr...
An Akashteer C4ISR system.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has awarded a ₹2,000 crore contract to state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for supplying advanced air-defence fire-control radars to the Indian Army, marking a significant st...
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s remaining MiG-21 Bison squadrons will be decommissioned by mid-September, defence officials said on Tuesday. This will bring the curtains down on the longest-servin...
Jagdeep Dhankhar. (File photo)New Delhi: In a surprise move, the vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankhar, tendered his resignation on Monday night. He cited deteriorating health conditions and the need to prioritize medical treatment. The 74-year-old consti...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
File photo of a Prithvi II missile during its test-firing.New Delhi: India conducted back-to-back tests of two nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said in a release. Although defence officials described...
Akash Prime during its validation test in Ladakh.New Delhi: India has successfully validated its upgraded Akash Prime surface-to-air missile system in challenging high-altitude conditions in Ladakh, destroying two high-speed unmanned targets at 15,00...