Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from a friction point at Pangong-tso in eastern Ladakh after Indian troops captured dominating heights in the Kailash Ranges, in 2020. (Photo: Indian Army)The power and strength of the national security apparatus...
CRPF troops participating in Republic Day parade 2023New Delhi: India's central armed police forces or paramilitary forces have been facing acute shortage of manpower with the Central Reserve Police Force topping the list among the six forces, th...
Army contingents marching during Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representational photo)The 2014 general election was unique in many ways. The world, perhaps for the first time, witnessed expenditure on a poll campaign on such a massive scale, esp...
New Delhi: This year, the government has increased the defence budget to Rs 5.94 lakh crore from last year's allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore in the Union Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is a...
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, before presenting the Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, allocated ₹5.94 lakh crore for the defence sector while announcing the Union Bu...
The Pangong lake in Ladakh. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: India has lost 26 out of 65 patrolling points near the line of actual control in eastern Ladakh, several media reports citing the contents of a research paper said. The reports said Leh’s s...
Narendra Modi.New Delhi: A two-part BBC documentary titled “India: The Modi Question” on the “tensions” between the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the country’s Muslims, which also includes a claim that the United Ki...
Narendra Modi (L) with Benjamin Netanyahu during the former’s July 2017 Israel visit. (Photo: Israeli government)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, had a telephonic conversation with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on...
An Indian soldier keeps watch at the LoC in Kashmir. Capturing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is an ambition repeatedly expressed by our politicians, sometimes directly and sometimes through the military top brass. After the-then chief of Army staff,...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...