The Thar desert hosted spectacleing before. It has seen the rise of successive Indian governments showcasing military might Bharat Shakti in 2024 and Vayushakti drills in this year.

This morning, 9 people could not get up in the Zaporizhzhia region and the city of Dnipropetrovsk.

The Manipur government has once again sought a tried and tested tool in one of India's longest-running ethnic conflicts the Unified Command meeting three years into the conflict.

In a covert move, New Delhi has started to blur the lines between civilian tech talent and battlefields.

The Indian capital has quietly launched another dimension in fighter jet manoeuvres.

New Delhi, once again, has asked China to resume the flow of hydrological data for the rivers that flow through its largely unmarked border, and this time it does so with much more seriousness than in diplomatic jargon.

Even though the number that went with it is a small one when compared to the international ship building industry, a little known shipyard along the Gujarat coast just did something that should make the policymakers in Delhi sit up and take notice.

This week, Kyiv received a warning that threatens to alter the course of the war they've been engaged in for four years.

The negotiation for 26 Rafale Marine jets came a step closer to reality on Tuesday, a little more than two years after French negotiators for India's most urgent defence procurement put forward its best and final offer to New Delhi prior to a rushed trip by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to Paris.

Pete Hegseth got into a public battle with a cable news chyron Tuesday, a rarity for defense secretaries.

About 250 Chinese-made SH-15 howitzers have started rolling to form their position on Pakistan's eastern border with India and this story needs more attention than the alarming headlines it generated.

During the decades, the men manning the northern border of India had to deal with two enemies each winter the enemy across the border and the fuel tank below.

Security along the India-Nepal border in Bihar has been tightened up yet again and the boot is now being let out just a few kilometres over the border.

Iran will receive the first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defence launchers within the next few weeks, three people with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters.

In fact, a review of over 80 Chinese academic papers and patents has revealed units dependent upon the People's Liberation Army have been ingesting some of OpenAI's and Anthropic's creations into their own weapons-development program.

Israel's defence establishment has admitted for the first time what many in the know have been saying for months: the country is seeking to develop its own unmanned warplane, one that can match the stealth, sensor-fusion, strike range and other capabilities of the American-made F-35 fighter, but without a human being inside.

Washington has a sensitive issue it does not want to address publicly: The nation with the highest spending on defence more than the next nine militaries combined is facing a shortage of interceptors to keep its troops and allies alive.

The Indian Coast Guard has been in action for nearly 5 decades to guard the Indian coast lines, most of which remain out of public eye, and this week, the force was in the spotlight, not because of a smuggling operation or a rescue mission, but for a different reason.

Kyiv has quietly established a timeframe that may change the way Europe protects itself from Russian ballistic missiles closer than most capitals would like to think mid-2027.

It is a time that occurs in each prolonged military engagement when the officer involved gazes into the target list, the ammunition stocks and the stocks of interceptors and tells his political bosses the simple truth: "We have hit what we can hit and more of the same won't get us anywhere.

On July 25, 2017, INS Sudarshini, a 3 Masted Sail Training Barque of Indian Navy set sail from Boston harbour, with her bow pointed towards Ponta Delgada in the Azores, which is her intended destination.

President Droupadi Murmu's visit to Romania this week for a state visit was not accompanied by missile or fighter jet headlines from the Ministry of External Affairs briefing room.

The arrest of a bookkeeper at Churachandpur is a telling example as to why the insurgency in Manipur depends on cash rather than guns.

Washington just wrote the biggest defense cheque in American history and by the slimmest of margins.

But there was a moment at Farnborough this week when it was not aircraft orders that were being celebrated, nor the champagne toasts, but a quieter, yet potentially more important theme of the future of Indian manufacturing.

After the long gestation period, India's new generation of airborne radar planes are finally making their way from paper to production.

As the Quad group meets with Annex, India has become more firm on the issue of terror financing, says Jaishankar in Manila Warning

The ship was commissioned by the Indian Navy on Wednesday at the naval base at Karwar, and, in a quiet addition, was added to a puzzle that has been an issue for planners in New Delhi for over a decade how to protect the nation's own coasts from the type of submarine that doesn't need deep water to cause harm.

A doctrine change like that is not in the usual places on India's western coast, at Karwar.

The agenda of foreign ministers entering the Philippine International Convention Center this week is constantly changing, much like a kaleidoscope.

Three years ago, Manila bought a few shore-based missile batteries from India on the face of it, a modest defence deal between two midsized nations.

It was a little more than three years ago that a small, yet impactful, news made headlines across India that Skyroot Aerospace has launched a privately developed rocket into orbit, proving that the country’s space sector is no longer just for ISRO.

New Delhi has ceased making statements on the issue of terrorism. It is now issuing warnings with hardware and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made that very clear on Saturday.

Pete Hegseth wants America's troops hotter and he wants proof and he's ordering it.

It is a strategic infrastructure event that is being held this week in New Delhi's defence establishment that makes a point that flies in the face of popular perceptions of conflict in the modern world.

The short, guarded language of a quiet stock exchange filing out of Lucknow on Friday has a greater impact than it lets on.

The State Department has approved a $1.96 billion bundle of precision-guided munitions for Saudi Arabia, and the time is telling.

The Southern Naval Command in Kochi will host something that will not catch headlines like a missile test or a border skirmish and yet, it says more about the direction in which India is heading from 20th to 23rd July.

An independent global assessment for the fifth consecutive year has rated the Indian Air Force more capable than its Chinese counterpart in total combat power, a rating that will be seen as a confirmation of the Indian Air Force's strength by its military supporters and as an embarrassment by its Chinese counterparts, but which should be interpreted with greater seriousness than either side might muster.

The Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet expanded with the addition of another hull on July 11 when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissioned INS Mahendragiri, the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam.

Private aerospace is a sector whose shadow hangs over India's defence sector, and one of the most significant surveillance programmes in the country's modern military history is quietly afoot for India.

Melbourne is now the site of the most pivotal India-Australia engagement in years, and the number of the agreements signed in one day eighteen is just a part of the story.

There's a confidence that comes with being on the deck of a warship one has built oneself and that's what Rajnath Singh had on hand when he told the nation on Saturday that "no algorithm will decide the next war.

This past weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Auckland and walked away with a full-fledged Strategic Partnership with New Zealand, and a document that is more of a working contract than a diplomatic wallpaper, that New Delhi has been looking for since 2010.

The numbers that came out of Kotak Institutional Equities' (KIE) latest sector note sounded more like a statement of national intent than anything else related to equity.