Foreign Affairs

China, in its goal to surpass the US - both militarily and economically, has redoubled its effort to become a superpower, it has resorted to several moves to fulfil this gargantuan objective, including intelligence...

  Washington: US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said he has been speaking with allies in Europe about how to send Ukraine more air defence systems. He discussed the conversations in a Pentagon press conference, referencing...

New Delhi: Referring to the significant deployment of Indian Navy ships to secure the shipping routes amid Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar April 29 stressed that 21 Indian...

Paris: The French government offered to buy the defence-strategic assets from struggling information-technology company Atos to keep them from falling under foreign control. Atos received a non-binding letter of intent from the French state on...

Rome: Britain’s defence minister has stated that Italy has sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, lifting the lid on months of secrecy surrounding Italy’s supply of weaponry to Kyiv. Grant Shapps made the announcement while...

Washington: The US Department of the Air Force said it awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a $13 billion contract to replace the service’s aging E-4B Nightwatch “doomsday planes” that would fly during a nuclear war. The...

Warsaw: Poland’s Ministry of National Defence has signed a contract to buy 72 K239 Chunmoo multi-barrelled missile launchers from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace for roughly $1.6 billion, the company said in a statement. The deal...

Paris: France’s synchronised test firing of naval cruise missiles from a surface ship and a submarine 400 kilometres apart adds a land-attack capability for European navies that may be more difficult for air defences...

New Delhi: In a development that could have security implications for India, China is building a road in a part of illegally occupied Kashmir close to the Siachen Glacier – touted as the world’s...

New Delhi: As co-chairs of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)'s Governing Council and Executive Committee from 2022 to 2024, India and the United States have collaborated to establish disaster-resilient infrastructure around the...

Moscow: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a bilateral meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and both sides reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation and discussed important issues of mutual interest. Doval held the...

New Delhi: India April 25 firmly rejected the US State Department report on Human Rights in India, which mentioned “significant human rights abuses” during the violence that broke out in Manipur last year and...

Manila: American and Filipino forces launched their largest combat exercises in years on April 22 in a show of allied firepower near the disputed South China Sea that has alarmed Beijing. The annual exercises...