Defence general

17 Jan 2018

16 Jan 2018

Britain's ministry of defence (MoD) confirmed that the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) aircraft took off from Royal Air Force (RAF) base Lossiemouth in north east Scotland, without confirming the exact number of Typhoons involved

15 Jan 2018

15 Jan 2018

Residents and visitors in Hawaii were thrown into a panic on Saturday by a false missile alarm, with many saying they thought they were going to die

13 Jan 2018

Addressing the media on the eve of the Army Day, Rawat acknowledged that China was exerting pressure on India along the border but at the same time asserted that the Indian Army was fully capable of dealing with any security challenge on the northern frontier

12 Jan 2018

US Ambassador to India, Kenneth Juster, has suggested that India can be an alternative market for US investors that have difficulties conducting business in China, and become a hub for US business in the Indo-Pacific region

11 Jan 2018

08 Jan 2018

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) did not reveal the whereabouts of its leader Ata Ullah, but Myanmar suspects the insurgents who fled to Bangladesh have slipped back into Myanmar to launch attacks

06 Jan 2018

06 Jan 2018

The Western powers’ agreement with Iran had focused on the country’s ability to amass fissile material and keeping nuclear weapons in check, it did not address contentious issues such as Iran’s support for militant groups in the region or its ballistic missile activities

05 Jan 2018

The aid could be resumed if Pakistan takes ‘decisive action’ against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, the US said, but Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed and his LeT did not factor in the decision

05 Jan 2018

04 Jan 2018

The tunnel, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs6,808 crore, would provide all weather connectivity to Srinagar, Kargil and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir

03 Jan 2018

Chinese soldiers with road-building machines crossed 200 metres into Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh last week before Indian troops stopped them, and some reports say the confrontation is still going on

02 Jan 2018

01 Jan 2018

28 Dec 2017

In the third supersonic interceptor test carried out this year, an incoming ballistic missile target was successfully intercepted, within 30 km altitude of the earth's atmosphere by the interceptor

28 Dec 2017

27 Dec 2017

27 Dec 2017

26 Dec 2017

26 Dec 2017

The Indian Army on Monday night destroyed a number of Pakistani posts across Jammu Kashmir’s Poonch district, killing at least three Pakistani soldiers

21 Dec 2017

20 Dec 2017

The United States had also strongly condemned the release of the Lashkar-e-Taiba leader from house arrest and had called for his immediate re-arrest and prosecution

19 Dec 2017

The US government has assessed with a "very high level of confidence" that a hacking entity known as Lazarus Group, which works on behalf of the North Korean government, carried out the WannaCry attack