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...
Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir (L) receiving the field marshal’s baton after being promoted to the rank from the country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, and prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif (R).Pakistan’s recent elevation of its army c...
A BSF soldier stands guard near an Indian post at the international border with Pakistan in Jammu. (File photo)The Border Security Force (BSF), designated as the nation’s “first line of defence”, stands sentinel along India’s ...
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...
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo: X/@BSF_Rajasthan)The Border Security Force (BSF), India’s first line of defence, shoulders the responsibility of guarding approximately 190 kilometres of int...
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...