The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan New Delhi: Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan took over as the 28th director general of Border Roads Organization (DG BR) on September 30. He assumed the charge following the superannuation of Lieutenant General Rajeev C...
Indian Army chief Gen Manoj Pandey New Delhi: Mulling over emerging geo-strategic contours, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande has pointed about the rise of China and its “belligerence” is presenting a threat to the “rule ba...
Justin Trudeau (L) and Narendra Modi. (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, claimed on Monday that his country has “credible evidence” that the Indian government is responsible for the assassination of...
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
The G20 Summit has started in the national capital, New Delhi, in which India is putting all efforts to make it a grand success under its presidency of the forum. In a bid to make its readers understand the concept, structure and functioning of...
India’s endeavour to transform the Group of 20, or G20 as it is commonly called, into a more apt “Geo20 (“geo” from “earth”) with its theme “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family) gives a majo...
New Delhi: The Indian Army has planned to procure 170 tracked armoured recovery vehicles (ARVs) which are specialist vehicles to operate in multiple terrain, including plains, desert and high altitude and mountainous areas.The Army on Tuesday issued ...
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Xi Jinping (L) and Narendra Modi (R) during their brief interaction at the BRICS summit in South Africa. Also seen is the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa (C). (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, may skip at...