Shehbaz Sharif (L) and Mohammed bin Salman after signing the mutual defence pact. (Photo: Saudi Arabia official release) New Delhi: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a landmark defence agreement that radically alters the Middle Eastern secur...
“Gen Z” protesters during a march in Nepal. (Photo: X)New Delhi: Nepal is facing its gravest political crisis in decades as youth-led protesters engaged in extraordinary negotiations with the country’s army and president to form an ...
The breakdown in US-India trade talks reveals fundamental philosophical differences about economic sovereignty.New Delhi: The punitive 50% tariffs imposed by the United States president, Donald Trump, on Indian goods appears to have backfired as...
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...
Udaygiri (L) and Himgiri during sea trials.New Delhi: The Indian Navy will commission two advanced stealth frigates simultaneously on August 26. This will mark an unprecedented milestone in the country’s naval expansion programme. INS Udaygiri ...
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...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo via X/@DalaiLama)New Delhi: China has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with India following the prime minister, Narendra Modi, conveying birthday greetings to the 14th Dalai Lama and the attendance of senior Indian minis...
Rear Admiral Janak Bevli presents "Wings of Gold" to Sub Lt Aastha Poonia (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Breaking barriers and ushering in a new era for women fighter pilots in the Indian Navy, Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia has become the fi...
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...