Taliban Won’t Get Involved in Kashmir: AS Dulat
As a quixotic, classical spymaster, Amarjit Singh Dulat, might have lost his swagger in the BJP government’s ever-evolving statecraft of ‘offensive defence’, but the ‘old Kashmir hand’ still... Read more
Huge Military Exercise Kicks Off in Australia Amid Tensions with China
A massive, multinational exercise led by Australian and U.S. forces kicked off Wednesday. On its surface, Talisman Sabre is a chance for more than 17,000 troops from the Australian and U.S.... Read more
Rostec Gets Ready to Reveal Its New Russian Fighter Jet
Russia’s defense industry is set to unveil a “fundamentally new aircraft” later this month. Russian defense giant Rostec published a Youtube video on Tuesday teasing a new fighter jet that i... Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Tashkent and discussed the fast-evolving situation in Afghanistan in the face of withdrawal of US forc... Read more
With India firmly conveying to China that the prolongation of the existing situation in eastern Ladakh was visibly impacting the bilateral ties in a “negative manner”, Beijing sa... Read more
The ongoing dramatic pull-out of the US and the NATO forces from war-ravaged Afghanistan and the increasing power push by the Taliban has India’s defence and security establishment worried.... Read more
Russia Rules Out Military Tie-Up With India on Afghanistan Issue
Russia is not in favour of a military alliance with India to help out the Government in Kabul, but is interested in close coordination while the Afghan issue seems to be acquiring new dimens... Read more
China Asks Pakistan to ‘Severely Punish’ Bus Blast Attackers That Killed 9 of its Nationals
Nine Chinese workers were among 13 people killed on Wednesday when a blast on a bus sent it careering down a ravine in northwestern Pakistan, government and police officials said. While Paki... Read more
The three neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, arrested in Kolkata, were setting up terror modules in West Bengal and may have links with Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Isl... Read more
India, US Close To Signing $700 Million Deal To Acquire 100 ‘GE 404’ Engines For Tejas Mk1A Fighter Jets
In what would signify further deepening of defence ties between India and the United States (US), the former is set to sign a deal to acquire 100 fighter jet engines worth $700 million from... Read more