Muktesh Pardeshi.New Delhi: Muktesh Pardeshi has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to Turkiye (Turkey), marking a pragmatic diplomatic shift at a time when relations between New Delhi and Ankara have been lukewarm. Pardeshi, a senior In...
Mourners carry the portrait of the Lebanese girl, Fatima Abdullah, who died in one of the pager explosions, on September 17, 2024. (Photo via X)New Delhi: In what seems like a sequence from an action movie based on a fictional novel, hundreds of...
Screenshot taken from a video shows a CRPF man handling an anti-drone gun in Manipur. (Via X)The state of Manipur has been in the throes of violence since May 2023, causing human misery, deaths, and large-scale displacement of people. The trigger for...
A security man firing a pump-action gun for controlling a stone-pelting crowd in Kashmir. (File photo)New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh forest department has announced that it will transfer some 700 American-manufactured pump-action guns to the Border Se...
A screengrab of a video showing Ajit Doval (L) during his meeting with Vladimir Putin, while the Russian secretary of the security council, Sergei Shoigu (R), looks on.New Delhi: The national security advisor, Ajit Doval, met with the Russian pr...
The triservice insignia of India.New Delhi: The Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) is gearing up to launch a five-day crash course for senior military officers to foster greater jointness and integration among the three military services. Th...
Rajnath Singh. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh) Lucknow: The defence minister Rajnath Singh took centre stage at the inaugural Joint Commanders’ Conference in the Uttar Pradesh capital, Lucknow, on Thursday. The event, themed “Sashakt aur Su...
DK Sunil (L) taking charge from CB Ananthakrishnan at the HAL headquarters in Bengaluru. (Photo via special arrangement.)Bengaluru: Dr DK Sunil has officially taken charge as the chairman and managing director (CMD) of the state-run Hindustan Aeronau...
The Nepali foreign minister, Arzu Rana Deuba (R), with the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar, in New Delhi, on August 19, 2024. (Photo: X/@EONIndia)This month’s Maldives visit of the foreign minister, S Jaishankar, and the Nepal trip of the...
General Sundararajan Padmanabhan (December 13, 1940 – August 19, 2024)Chennai: General Sundararajan Padmanabhan, the 20th chief of the Indian Army, passed away on Monday. He was 83. Gen Padmanabhan, affectionately known as “Paddy” w...