Foreign Affairs

Washington: Faced with an increasing number of missions, personnel and materiel readiness shortfalls, and “finite resources,” the US Coast Guard  published its first “Operational Posture” document, which a senior officer said is intended to...

Washington: Of all the critical tasks under the remit of the Pentagon’s IT office, one has risen to the highest priority: finding vulnerabilities and then modernising the DoD’s cryptographic algorithms to stay one step...

New Delhi: Recent developments indicate that Indian and Chinese troops are actively disengaging from two contentious areas in Ladakh, specifically Depsang and Demchok. This process follows a newly established agreement between the two nations...

New Delhi: India has strongly criticised Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue during a recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, characterising the move as "despicable, yet entirely predictable." This statement reflects India's ongoing frustration...

Seoul: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said there is evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia and South Korea’s spy chief told lawmakers that 3,000 North Korean troops are in the country...

New Delhi: India and Germany are working closely to finalise a memorandum of arrangement for logistics arrangement between the armed forces. Germany is set to post a liaison officer at the Indian Navy’s Information...

To keep anti-India elements, especially belonging to the Khalistani movement in good humour, the Justin Trudeau government last week asked New Delhi to submit High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and five other diplomats to...

In what is seen as a major step forward towards peace and harmony along the Sino-Indian border, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the...

New Delhi: In a boost to India’s military strength, Germany has accorded a special status to India, so that approvals for military purchases can be accelerated, German Ambassador Philipp Ackermann said, adding that the...

Washington: Defence tech startup Saronic announced  it is launching its newest autonomous surface vessel, dubbed Corsair, the company’s third and largest unmanned maritime asset aimed at satisfying the Pentagon’s desire for expendable drones produced...

Washington:  The US Army this week announced it was cancelling plans to develop a next-generation interceptor for the Patriot air defence system, but executives from key air defence competitors largely shrugged off the news. Maj...

Washington: The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has been moving to speed its processes for acquiring commercial imagery in order to help support a robust US industrial base, according to the spy satellite agency’s deputy. “We...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the much-awaited BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed. Although the ministry did mention PM Modi's planned bilateral meetings with...