New Delhi: India and Nepal are two nations with one people and for this reason alone, both sides should work on resolving their differences, including the border row, through talks, and work towards a positive transformation in ties, leading experts from both the nations have said. They were […]
New Delhi: India and the United States today signed a long-pending agreement for geospatial cooperation that will provide a deadlier edge to Indian missile systems, even as they decided to hold the inaugural Industrial Security Annex (ISA) summit later this year to further cement the two nation’s defence […]
New Delhi: India and the United States today said they will sign a geospatial cooperation agreement tomomrrow that enables sharing of critical satellite communications and data to improve their military interoperability. A statement released by India’s Ministry of Defence after a delegation meeting between Minister of Defence Rajnath […]
New Delhi: India is ready to sign a key geospatial cooperation agreement with the United States later this month that will firmly set their strategic relationship in the Indo-Pacific region, where both are threatened by a common rival in China. India is likely to put a seal of […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Australian government’s reaction to the Exercise MALABAR invitation from paragraphs 10 to 14.) New Delhi: The first thought that comes to mind when one hears Australia is joining the trilateral India–United States–Japan maritime exercise later this year: Is QUAD, conceived as a purely diplomatic […]
New Delhi: Shifting its ties with Myanmar to a higher gear, India today officially confirmed it is all set to formally hand over a submarine to its neighbour for boosting its naval capability. India will transfer the Russian-origin Kilo-class, which will be commissioned by Myanmar as its first-ever […]
In addition to its Constitution and founding principles, a country’s executive leadership primarily sets its larger institutions’ tone. A country’s armed forces, diplomatic corps, legislature, large public sector companies, and the press slowly imbue themselves with the operant thought paradigm working at the core of its governmental apparatus […]
New Delhi/Washington: The Donald Trump administration has approved a key follow-up support by American defence major Lockheed Martin Corp to India’s C-130J Super Hercules special operations aircraft fleet, in a boost to their bilateral military trade and diplomatic ties, against the backdrop of the flare up with China […]
New Delhi: Pakistan has been eliminating its Sikh population for decades through killings, rapes, abductions and forced marriages of young women, yet is funding and fueling Khalistani terrorism and separatist movement globally to achieve it sinister plans to break up India, a Canadian expert, who authored a recently […]
New Delhi: With an eye on China and Pakistan, India is all set to place an order for 30 armed drones for nearly $3 billion from the United States, in a deal that will be the first for American firm General Atomics from the South Asian giant. Indian-American […]
New Delhi: The India-China military impasse in Ladakh will take more time than expected to settle to each others’ satisfaction after they pressed for each other to withdraw from their respective position of strength along the de facto border. But the positive after the sixth round of military […]
New Delhi: China is posing a challenge to India in Ladakh and the Indian armed forces are determined to fight back, India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today said. In a suo moto statement in Parliament of India, Rajnath Singh said the Indian armed forces have a vast […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on Sep. 11 with additional background information throughout the report, filed originally on Sep. 10.) By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Already interoperable through the annual joint Malabar maritime exercise with Japan, India has expanded its strategic reach in the Indo-Pacific by signing a logistic […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In a strong message to China and Pakistan, India plans to operationalise five more of the French-origin Rafale jets in a squadron in Ambala within the next two months, to boost the air force’s deep strike, strategic capabilities. The five new Rafale […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India‘s plans to export its highly successful BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to friendly foreign countries such as Vietnam and Philippines have got a boost, with Russia, the other partner in the joint venture, for the first time saying it is readying its […]
