India Sentinels illustration for representation.A troubling development has emerged from Jammu & Kashmir, one that deserves far more attention than it has received amid the political theatre surrounding Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision an...
Narendra Modi (L) with Xi Jinping during the October 2024 meeting in Kazan, Russia. (File photo)The arrival of China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, in New Delhi on August 18 for the 24th round of special representatives’ talks on the disput...
Map showing India’s east and northeast with neighbouring countries’ locations for perspective. (Map not to scale)In the annals of military strategy, there exists a fundamental principle that nations ignore at their peril: threats, like ti...
General Anil Chauhan. New Delhi: The chief of defence staff, General Anil Chauhan, has made the first official acknowledgement that the Indian Air Force lost fighter jets during Operation Sindoor in May. The admission came during an intervi...
Vice Admiral AN Pramod, DGNO, Indian Navy.In the shadow of escalating India-Pakistan tensions during Operation Sindoor, a singular voice cut through the diplomatic noise with steel-edged clarity: “Pakistan knows very well what would happen if t...
Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, DGMO, Indian Army.In the darkest hours before dawn on May 7, 2025, as the world slept, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai stood in the Indian military’s high-security command centre in New Delhi, his eyes fixed on tact...
Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, DGAO, Indian Air Force.The skies over Pakistan fell silent in the predawn darkness of May 7, 2025. Then came the thunder.Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, the director general of air operations of the Indian Air Fo...