On a Sunday afternoon in September 2025, lightning struck a storage tank at a port-side fuel facility in Visakhapatnam. The tank's roof caved in and its contents caught fire. Ten fire engines raced...

France is recovering from its worst rioting in years, and the unrest has not stayed within its borders. What began as student anger over an understaffed and overcrowded education system widened within weeks...

  Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered an espionage case against the wife of a senior Army officer. She is accused of sharing sensitive defence-related information and documents with suspected Chinese-linked agents who...

The Indian Army has begun proceedings to end the service of a Major accused of extramarital relationships, including with the wives of two fellow officers. The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) declined on October...

Four shipping containers sailed from China to Yemen's Aden Free Zone in 2025. Their cargo was never meant to reach the government-held south. It was bound for the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah, but...

The Leh Apex Body (LAB), the main civil society platform of Ladakh's Leh district, has rejected Beijing's assertion that parts of Ladakh have always belonged to China. At a press conference in Leh...

Most of the 84 Border Security Force personnel taken ill in Imphal have been treated and are being discharged. Officials said only five would remain hospitalised for further treatment, with the rest expected...

The US military has developed strike plans that include the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, the "mother of all bombs," against Iran. The weapon has not been used. The plans would take...

The Indian Navy on Friday commissioned INS Samarthak at Naval Base Karwar in Karnataka, adding an indigenously built multi-purpose vessel to a fleet that is growing at its fastest pace in decades. Built...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to India next week with energy cooperation, commercial investment and the strategic partnership on his agenda. The stops are Mumbai and Jamnagar, the Gujarat home...

The defence ministry on Thursday signed contracts worth about ₹4,106 crore for two indigenous systems: GSAT-7C, a dedicated communication satellite for the Indian Air Force (IAF), and Varunastra heavyweight torpedoes for the Navy....

The Indian Navy will commission Samarthak, its first indigenously built Multi-Purpose Vessel (MPV), at Naval Base, Karwar on 16 October 2026. Built by Larsen and Toubro Ltd under the Make in India initiative,...