A plume of smoke is seen rising from a site outside the Tehran airport after an Israeli strike. (Photo via X)New Delhi: Israel launched an airstrike against military sites within Iran early Saturday in retaliation to Iran’s missile and drone st...
India confronts Pakistan as a hostile adversary along its 3,323-kilometre western front. This frontier encompasses various states as security stakeholders, bearing the brunt of cross-border terrorism and drug-induced social upheaval. These states inc...
A General Atomics MQ-9B Predator drone.New Delhi: India has finally signed the MQ-9B Predator drone deal with the United States on Tuesday. The agreement, worth $3.1 billion (around ₹26,000 crore) will see India acquire 31 drones distributed am...
Dikson, a Mudyug-class Russian diesel-powered icebreaker. (Photo via Creative Commons)New Delhi: Russia is exploring opportunities to collaborate with Indian shipyards for the construction of four non-nuclear icebreaking ships, intended for its state...
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has sanctioned two crucial defence acquisitions on Wednesday, which are aimed at substantially enhancing the country’s military capabilities. The CCS ap...
Oleksandr Polishchuk.New Delhi: The Ukrainian ambassador to India, Oleksandr Polishchuk, urged New Delhi to take a more proactive stance in mediating peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. While speaking to reporters, Polishchuk also reportedl...
An Agni-4 missile during a test-launch. (File photo)New Delhi: India has successfully test-fired its Agni-4 intermediate-range ballistic missile in operational configuration, on Friday. In a short news release, the defence ministry said the miss...
An artist’s impression of INS Arighat. (Illustration via Wikipedia/Creative Commons) New Delhi: On the day of the commissioning of India’s second nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN), INS Arighat, Beijing’s mouthp...
INS Arihant. (File photo)Visakhapatnam: The Indian Navy got its second nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine, on Thursday. The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, commissioned the nuclear submarine capable of carrying nuclear-tipped ballistic...
(From L to R): Minoru Kihara, Yoko Kamikawa, Rajnath Singh, and S Jaishankar during their 2+2 ministerial talks. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh) New Delhi: In a move to further bolster their strategic partnership, India and Japan held the third round o...