Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari (8L), and the country’s navy chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf (10R), during the commissioning ceremony of PNS/M Hangor in China’s Sanya, on April 30, 2026. (Photo: Pakistan Navy/Handout)New Delhi: ...
Holy Relics of Tathagata Buddha (Photo: IBC) By Dr. Portia B. Conrad Every year, on the full moon of Vaishakha, Buddhists across the world stop. Lamps are lit. Monasteries fill with chanting. This year the day carries something extra - the ...
New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for 83 tracked platforms purpose-built to carry the Akashteer air-defence command-and-reporting system into mechanized combat zones, addressing a capability gap that became pa...
Development assistance is never only about development. This is not a cynical observation, it is a structural one. When a country allocates capital to a neighbour's infrastructure, it is also investing in supply chains, in diplomatic relationship...
Advanced armoured vehicle manufactured by Tata (Photo: TASL)Mumbai: Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Bharat Forge, in partnership with the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), has fast-tracked the development of next-g...
BRICS diplomats at the BRICS MENA meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: A meeting that was meant to project the strength and solidarity of the world’s most consequential emerging-economy bloc ended on Friday, in New Delhi without the one...
A Sukhoi-30MKI landing on a stretch of the Purvanchal Expressway in UP’s Sultanpur. (Photo: IAF)New Delhi/Sultanpur (UP): The Indian Air Force has carried out emergency landing drills on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultan...
Chennai: A Chennai-based drone manufacturer, ZUPPA Geo Navigation Technologies, has supplied over 500 indigenously built unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian Army over the past three months. The company described it as a milestone for domestically ...
Foreign ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal (Photo: X) New Delhi: China has renamed 23 geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh in what Beijing calls the “standardization” of place names in the territory it claims as Zangnan, or sou...