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...
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...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
Lt Gen Rahul R Singh.New Delhi: India’s four-day military operation in May revealed the emergence of a complex adversarial alliance, with China providing real-time intelligence support to Pakistan while Turkey supplied advanced drone technology...
Ali Khamenei (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu.The dust has barely settled on the Middle East’s latest conflagration, yet the contours of a strategic paradox are already emerging. Israel’s audacious Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 20...
The three Iranian nuclear sites that the US bombed.New Delhi: The United States launched its most significant military operation against Iran since 1979 in the early hours of Sunday (Iran time), deploying seven B-2 stealth bombers to target three cri...
Donald Trump (L) and Asim Munir.New Delhi: In an unprecedented and symbolically loaded move, the United States president, Donald Trump, hosted Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, for a private luncheon at the White House on Wednesd...
Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...
India broke ranks with other SCO members and did not condemn Israel for attacking Iran.New Delhi: India has distanced itself from a statement by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that strongly condemned Israel’s military actions again...
Handout photo released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps shows smoke billowing from a site targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran.New Delhi: Israel launched its most devastating assault on Iranian territory since the Iran-Iraq wa...