The Indian Consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif is operational and officials are closely monitoring the situation, officials said on Monday, a day after India evacuated diplomats... Read more
India’s Last Frontier
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s brief stopover in Tehran on July 7 has taken place at a time of great volatility in regional politics. Unfortunately, India has to adjust to a rapidl... Read more
China has needled India yet again. This time over His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations in Ladakh. Officials have confirmed to CNN-News18 that on July 6, Chinese army entered t... Read more
Afghanistan Rejects Reports That India is Supplying Arms to Afghan Forces to Help Fight Taliban
While India and Afghanistan entered a “strategic partnership agreement” in 2011, Delhi has been wary of supplying arms and ammunition to Afghanistan. Delhi’s defence cooperation with Kabul s... Read more
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile failed to take off during a test-firing, which was conducted off the Odisha coast on Monday. The missile fell soon after it took off, ANI reported. The... Read more
DRDO Gives Anti-Drone Tech Demo to Armed Forces After Attack on Jammu Air Force Base
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), following the drone terror attack on an Air Force base in Jammu last month, carried out an urgent demonstration of its anti-drone sy... Read more
Army to Receive First Batch of 30 Indigenous SWITCH Tactical Drones At LAC
In January, the Indian Army had struck a deal of 140 crores with Ideaforge Technology for procurement of Switch tactical drones especially for surveillance along LAC in Eastern Ladakh. The f... Read more
Arrested Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Were Planning to Use Human Bombs: UP Police
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar told reporters that Minhaz Ahmed and Maseeruddin – both residents of Lucknow – were planning to unleash terro... Read more
India Evacuates Diplomats, Security Personnel from Kandahar as Taliban Captures New Areas
India has pulled out around 50 diplomats and security personnel from its consulate in Kandahar in Afghanistan in view of the deteriorating security situation and the Taliban gaining control... Read more
Why Has China’s PLA Started Sending ‘Grandpa Fighter Jets’ To Test Taiwan’s Air Defences?
The Chinese military’s use of ageing J-7 jets in a Taiwan fly-past last month has raised questions about why the second-generation fighters were deployed alongside more modern warplanes. Mil... Read more