India on Saturday asked China to pull back its troops and stop further construction activities in the strategically-located Depsang-Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) sector of eastern Ladakh. It is the... Read more
Centrality of Indian Air Power via a “Central Command”
Editor’s Note A strikingly different, incisive article by a naval officer arguing for a Central (Airpower) Command instead of an Air Defence Command by suggesting that the main argument... Read more
Defence Ministry’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’Push: Import Embargo on 101 Items
Announcing a series of far-reaching reforms for the defence sector, taking to Twitter, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said “the Ministry of Defence has prepared a list of 101 items for... Read more
Two Light Combat Helicpoters (LCH) have been operating with the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Ladakh for a week, reports Livefist. Flown in to Ladakh last weekend from Bengaluru, the indigenous... Read more
Lockheed Martin Deepens Ties with Indian Defence Supply Chain
Lockheed Martin, the US aerospace major shared information about new partnership opportunities with the Indian defence industry during the five-day virtual annual suppliers’ conference concl... Read more
75 Years on, How Will the Nuclear Age End?
Seventy-five years ago, U.S. nuclear weapons devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For individual human beings, 75 years signals nearness to the end of life. But for the nuclear age, does this... Read more
Muslim Leaders Are Betraying the Uighurs
Empty streets. Sprawling encampments in the desert nearby, spoken of in hushed whispers. That’s what a modern terror regime looks like. More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang reg... Read more
After the US issued exccutive orders to block transactions with the Chinese owners of messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, Beijing on Friday cited its opposition to the move. C... Read more
Enforcement Directorate Conducts Raids Across Country in Pilatus Aircraft Deal
The Enforcement Directorate is carrying out raids at 14 locations in Delhi, Surat and Gurgaon in connection with Pilatus aircraft deal allegedly involving absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhand... Read more
Microsoft Expands TikTok Takeover Ambitions to Entire Global Business, Including India Operations
Microsoft is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok’s global business, including the viral video app’s operations in India and Europe, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people wi... Read more