Foreign Affairs

New Delhi: Even as efforts were on to defuse the tension along the Sino-Indian border, there was a violent clash at Galwan Valley in Ladakh where Chinese troops provoked their Indian counterparts leading to...

Seoul: In a series of threats from North Korea with peace hopes and de-nuclearisation replaced by tensions, South Korea held an emergency security meeting on June 14 and said its military was on alert. This...

Washington: Much of President Donald Trump’s commencement address at the United States Military Academy’s Class of 2020 graduation and commissioning ceremony on June 13 focused on the legacy of West Point and its graduates...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected to join his Chinese and Russian counterparts at a virtual conference of the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral on June 22 against the backdrop of a tense...

  New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on June 15 rejected Nepal's territorial claim asserting that the Lipulekh-Dharchula road falls very much in India and conveyed the Modi government's willingness to sort out the "misunderstanding"...

  Washington: The US Army is giving units in Europe and in the Pacific new electronic warfare equipment, marking what one service leader said was the first “reintroduction” of such tools since the Cold War. The...

  Paris: France’s fourth nuclear submarine, Le Téméraire, was qualified on June 12 to operationally deploy the M51 nuclear-capable missile after successfully launching it from the Bay of Audierne in Brittany. Le Téméraire is the second-oldest...

  New Delhi: India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador TS Tirumurti is confident that India will be elected in the group of elite 15 in the UN Security Council by...

Washington: In a move aimed at checking China in the Pacific, a new military fund along the lines of a Senate-crafted version of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) is one step closer to becoming...

  New Delhi: Pakistani border forces were forced to retreat and abandon their border outposts in Balochistan after people pelted stones and torched military buildings. The protests erupted in the border town of Brabchah on June...

  New Delhi: As the Sino-Indian border dispute is on, a Russian lawmaker said that his country should not interfere in disputes like the current border standoff and two countries should use their bilateral mechanisms,...

  Washington: US fighter jets intercepted Russian bombers twice on June 10 off the coast of Alaska, US air defence command said. The intercepts come less than two weeks after US bombers were met by Russian...

  Islamabad: Pakistan government restrictions on the country's defence industry are stifling potential and must go, says Haroon Qureshi, president of the trade body Pakistan Aerospace Council (PAeC). PAeC is a collective group of aerospace, defence...