India’s growing maritime engagement in the Indian Ocean was visible during INS Trikand’s recent visit to Mauritius, but the effort goes beyond ship deployments. A key part of this strategy is training and...

In May 2026, South Asia's geopolitical and military landscape witnessed a decisive shift. India's Operation Sindoor, to avenge the killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, changed the dynamics in...

Pakistan’s constitutional story is built on a contradiction so stark that it still indicts the state nearly half a century later. The country’s most durable constitutional settlement, the 1973 Constitution, is inseparable from...

Borders do not take days off and the systems watching them cannot either, that is the operating premise behind modernising surveillance infrastructure along the border stretches of Bihar's Kishanganj. The threats here are...

There is a photograph that has never left the minds of those who have seen it. Lhasa, March 1959, a city that had stood for centuries as the spiritual heart of an entire...

  Bangladesh could save billions of dollars annually by leveraging its long and accessible land border with India more effectively. Shipping a 20-foot container from China to Chittagong costs between $800 and $1,200...

He was 24 years old. He put on a soldier's uniform, slung a rifle over his shoulder, and stepped out of his palace into a night thick with danger. Somewhere in the darkness,...

Lin Mei-ling was hanging laundry on the roof of her apartment in Taipei when a neighbour called up to her. “Turn on the television,” he said. “Beijing just passed a law to take...

On a day marking the birth anniversary of one of India’s most transformative military leaders, it is fitting to revisit the bold structural vision that Bipin Rawat championed a leaner, more agile and...

March 10 is a date that Tibetans carry with them wherever they go, returning each year with a quiet but persistent demand, to remember, to grieve, and to refuse to give up. It...

The Interior Ministry of Bahrain has arrested five Pakistani nationals and one Bangladeshi national for allegedly filming and praising missile and drone attacks carried out by Iran, following the viral spread of videos...

On March 7, 1971, more than a million Bengalis packed Dhaka's Ramna Race Course, now Suhrawardy Udyan still raw from the Pakistani military's recent killings. Dhaka's streets had barely dried from the blood...