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...
Israeli troops at a destroyed south Lebanon village during the current IDF-Hezbollah fighting. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi: The United States president, Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire b...
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...
Nitasha Arora, Brig Parminder Singh Arora’s wife, narrating the incident to media. New Delhi: A serving Indian Army brigadier and his son were allegedly beaten by a group of men in a southwest Delhi residential colony late on Saturday nigh...
Foreign ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal (Photo: X) New Delhi: China has renamed 23 geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh in what Beijing calls the “standardization” of place names in the territory it claims as Zangnan, or sou...
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...
A BSF solder keeping watch over the other side of the international border with Pakistan, somewhere in the western section. (File photo for representation) Let me be direct about something that tends to get buried under bureaucratic language and...
Two commandos of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA special operations unit during jungle-warfare training. (Photo for representation.)“The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha, for then, on that day, you will have los...