Gwadar Port (Photo: X)New Delhi: As Pakistan points to Gwadar's recent surge in container traffic, a more complicated picture is taking shape behind the scenes. Hangeng Trade Company, a Chinese meat-processing firm operating in Gwadar's North...
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: ...
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...
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...
Lt Col Anuj Chandra Shrivastava. (India Sentinels photo by special arrangement.New Delhi: An Indian Army officer from the Parachute Regiment’s Special Forces (Para SF) has developed the country’s first indigenously designed combat free-fa...
Fresh officers during a pass-out ceremony at the CRPF Academy at Kedarpur, Gurugram, Haryana. (File photo for representation.) When Parliament passed the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, it did more than legislate...
Apache helicopter fires Hellfire missile at Pokhran, Rajasthan (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: The Indian army has, for the first time, put its Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters through live field firing during exercise Brahmastra at the Pokhran...
Thousands of Iranians came out on the streets of various cities in the country to celebrate Tehran’s “victory” in the war. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran came into effect late on Tues...