Foreign Affairs

Rosh-HaAyin / Tel Aviv, Israel: A day after the Israeli Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir announced that there is a plan to launch a new branch dedicated to "unmanned systems...

India will host the 18th edition of the BRICS Summit over two days on September 12 and 13 at a time at a time when trade tensions, supply-chain disruptions, geopolitical conflicts and rapid technological...

Ahead of a possible Summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming BRICS Summit in New Delhi, a meeting was held between the Indian and Chinese armies...

India and Belgium have signed 10 defence-industrial agreements covering ammunition production, rocket assembly, naval mine-countermeasure systems, counter-drone technology, electro-optics and armoured-vehicle systems. The agreements were concluded in New Delhi on September 3 during Belgian...

Much has happened in five years since Afghanistan Taliban 2.0 came into existence on August 14, 2021 and Indo-Afghan relations appear to have taken a positive turn and the relations assumes significance in the...

On August 20, 2026, India and Japan signed their first-ever defence-only joint statement and a landmark maritime security pact. It's not just paperwork - it's a signal that two of Asia's biggest democracies are...

Words matter in diplomacy, and Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir chose his carefully. Asked whether Dhaka would join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement - the pact Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed on...

Tel Aviv: American and Israeli intelligence organisations have uncovered an Iranian plan to attack US and allied military targets located within Europe—such as bases in Cyprus and Bulgaria. Israeli sources said that this plan...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold a bilateral meeting with the Defence Minister of Japan Shinjiro Koizumi in New Delhi on August 20, 2026. The meeting is expected to further strengthen bilateral...

Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei August 17 firmly denied reports of any direct or indirect negotiations with the United States. He dismissed claims of active bilateral dialogue between Tehran and Washington, stressing...

Yerevan. A bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed during high-level meetings in Yerevan on August 17, 2026, led by Indian Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and Armenian Minister of High-Tech Industry Davit Tadevosyan. Indian...

Tel Aviv: Russia attacked Ukraine with a North Korean ballistic missile for the first time since last year, Ukrainian authorities said on Thursday, August 13, shortly after Kyiv warned of a new wave of...

Every great trade route in history has rewarded whoever mapped, secured and normalised it first - Venice on the spice routes, Britain on Suez and the United States on the post-war Pacific. China now...