— By Dr Baishali SarkarEvery year, on the full moon of Āṣāḍha, Buddhists across the world pause to remember one of their most sacred days. It marks the Buddha's first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, given...
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker.On a December morning in 1971, four Hawker Hunters of the Indian Air Force’s 20 Squadron thundered 120 kilometres into Pakistani territory to strike an airbase most commanders would have judged beyond safe r...
Lawrence Bishnoi (File photo)New Delhi: The United States of American authorities have indicated to seek the extradition of jailed Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles unsealed a batch of indictments accusin...
New Delhi/Jakarta: India and Indonesia on Tuesday agreed to jointly develop the strategically located Sabang port on Weh Island off the northern tip of Sumatra, giving New Delhi a presence on both sides of the Strait of Malacca, one of the world&rsqu...
Very Short-Range Air Defence System. (File photo) New Delhi: Adani Defence & Aerospace on Sunday laid the foundation stone for an integrated missile-manufacturing complex in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, an investment pegged at ₹...
Gen Dhiraj Seth. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: General Dhiraj Seth took over as the 31st chief of the Army staff on June 30, inheriting an institution in the middle of its most sweeping reorganization in decades. His in-tray blends structural upheav...
Relatives and helpers carrying bodies of children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (Photo via Yaqeen Institute)This author has stood over the bodies of children before – dead children, mutilated children, dead children with mutilated bodi...
India-Nepal border. (File photo)For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu...
Netra AEW&C. (Screenshot from IAF video.)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India’s indigenous airborne early warning programme reached a definitive milestone on Wednesday when the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) formally handed...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...