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...
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: In a major development and push to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of achieving universalization of membership of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), the requisite number of member countries have given the go-ahead.“A...
New Delhi: Stating that India does not only share waters of the Indian ocean with Mauritius but also a common heritage of culture and language, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the partnership between two countries is destined ...
New Delhi: India and the UK are deepening their existing scientific research collaboration with five new projects to tackle anti-microbial resistance (AMR) that could lead to important advances in the global fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteri...
July 26 is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery. Were the intelligence agencies not able to convert the information avai...
New Delhi: The three-day-long Air Force Commanders’Conference concluded on Friday, wherein its Chief ACM RKS Bhadauria emphasised on the need for rapid capacity building, increase in serviceability of all assets and dedicated work towards effec...
An Indian Army T-90 tank during a desert drill.New Delhi: In order to give a fillip to the government’s ambitious initiative “Make in India” programme, the defence ministry (MoD) signed a pact with Bharat Earth Movers Limited for pr...