Bengaluru: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday inaugurated the HAL-IISc Skill Development Centre (SDC) established at IISc’s Challakere campus in Chitradurga district of Karnataka through a video conference.Speaking on the occ...
An Indian Army T-72 tank high in the Himalayas. Last week, we had Brigadier RJS Dhillon taking us north in a sharp but shallow offensive through Depsang, SSN (subsector north) and the Karakoram Pass in order to gain a bargaining advantage with t...
A June satellite image showing Chinese military build-up in the Galwan valley. (Photograph: 2020 Planet Labs via Twitter)Since the 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a bloody clash with China’s People’s Liberation Arm...
New Delhi: Giving a fillip to India’s Atma Nirbhar Bharat initiative, the defence ministry will stop the import of 101 items "beyond given timeline" to boost indigenous production.This would mean that the domestic industry will receiv...
Africa is the world’s second most populous continent (after Asia) and more than 1.3 million people call it home – accounting for more than 15% of the world’s population. The continent is often acknowledged as the birthplace of human...
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.New Delhi: After the Pakistan cabinet approved a new political map which includes territories of Jammu & Kashmir and parts of Gujarat and Ladakh, India ridiculed Pakistan’s move and called it “an ex...
New Delhi: India on Tuesday appreciated the Afghanistan government for providing unwavering support and said that two more of the seven Indian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan in May 2018 had been freed and had returned to the country.A total of si...
Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, former commander of the Northern Army, on a tank in Ladakh. (Representative image via Northern Command, Indian Army/Twitter) Many of our readers, by now, know about the exploits of Brigadier Rupinder (RJS) Dhillo...
New Delhi: With most of the telecom hardware are of Chinese origin and many Indian telecom majors under massive Chinese debt, Internet will be Achilles’ Heel of New India, a new book has cautioned.It says that the decision on 5G, pending with t...
New Delhi: India needs to instill fear in the minds of Communist China if it has to achieve equilibrium in the bilateral relationship, senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi has said, calling for a comprehensive, aggressive change in India’s p...