Foreign Affairs

New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently praised India's leadership under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, particularly highlighting the "Make in India" initiative as a significant driver for creating "stable conditions" for small and...

Paris: European Union countries increased defence spending by 10% to a record €279 billion ($293 billion) last year, with the share of budgets spent on new equipment rising to the highest since the start...

Washington: The US Space Force’s push to prepare for a future war in the Indo-Pacific in the next few years is not just about quickly fielding more resilient satellites and ground systems — it...

Tel Aviv: The Israeli ministry of defence is in high level talks with the US administration about future procurement of military systems.  Director General of Israel Ministry of Defence, Maj Gen (Res.) Eyal Zamir, arrived in...

Milan: The NATO alliance has begun planning for its own fleet of unmanned boats meant to help protect critical undersea infrastructure across the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. Following a pattern of undersea cable damage across...

Washington: The US Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt...

Rome: Italy’s small, family-owned defence companies are more profitable and are growing faster than the country’s massive state-run firms or the foreign players in the Italian market, a new report has revealed. Family-run firms have...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told Lok Sabha that maintaining peace and tranquility in border areas is essential for the development of India-China relations. He noted that bilateral ties have been "abnormal" since...

It would not be wrong to say that the whole of the world and the Middle East and in particular Lebanon took a cautious sigh of relief as the fragile ceasefire between Hezbollah and...

Tel Aviv: While galloping towards the bomb, Iran is rapidly enhancing its presence in some oceans.  Israeli sources said that like what happened in the Iranian nuclear program, "the world is blind and deaf in...

Recently Morocco tightened controls on its border with Algeria. It strengthened border surveillance and took security measures including the deployment of forward posts with electronic and optical movement detection systems, high-sensitivity seismic sensors, fixed...

New Delhi: Armenian and Indian defence ministers on November 30, discussed to enhance bilateral defence cooperation. Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan met with Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during this working visit, which underscores...

Stockholm: Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $632 billion in 2023, a real-terms increase of 4.2 per cent compared with 2022, according to...