New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has a new milestone to its name: Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth has become the first woman to graduate from the Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment (TACDE)...

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the Indian government over the temporary removal of a Facebook video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as lapses linked to child sexual...

A peace bell rang at 8.15am on Thursday and about 50,000 people fell silent in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, 81 years after a US B-29 dropped a uranium bomb that left roughly 140,000...

The Indian Navy has signalled a much larger role for Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), the Defence Ministry's Miniratna public sector unit, positioning it as a long-term partner in the country's maritime security setup...

Strip away the trade-corridor language and Gwadar has always been two projects wearing one name: a commercial port that was supposed to move cargo, and a strategic naval foothold that gives China a...

Bangladesh's 2022 national census, conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, recorded the country's Hindu population at 7.95 percent of the total, down from 8.54 percent in 2011. At the time of Bangladesh's...

When India's senior military fraternity began calling General Upendra Dwivedi the "Drone General," it was not a casual observation. It was an institutional verdict — a recognition that one man had, in the...

In any democracy, the larger the public expenditure, the stronger the expectation of public accountability. Roads, railways, hospitals, and welfare programmes are routinely subjected to scrutiny, audits, and parliamentary questioning. Yet when it...

In the winter markets of Dhaka and the flour mills of Chittagong in Bangladesh, the tremors of a war being fought five thousand kilometres away arrived without warning. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in...

In democratic societies, whistleblowing enjoys considerable moral valour; those who expose wrongdoing are often lauded as heroes of transparency. Yet when applied to the armed forces of a sovereign state, the act takes...

On 29 October 2016, a fisherman named Rasraj Das was beaten by a crowd in Nasirnagar, a small upazila in Brahmanbaria district in Bangladesh, and handed to the police. He had been accused...

When Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, the first of its eight Hangor-class submarines, the ceremony was freighted with symbolism. President Asif Ali Zardari attended as the chief...