Opinion

Eighty years ago, on August 15, 1947, India woke up to a freedom it had to build almost from scratch - a fractured economy, a freshly drawn and bloody border, and a place in...

On July 25, 2026, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Safran signed a deal to manufacture components for the LEAP engine on Indian soil. The move, which happened without much fanfare, represents something the Security and...

The war in Iran is now in its sixth month and there are no signs of it ending soon. The past 175 days have brought about unprecedented crises in the region and its effects...

India has closed the door on a deal Moscow spent more than a decade trying to close. The Defence Ministry has confirmed that the country is not pursuing new Sukhoi variants — a statement...

When Russian mechanised columns rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, nobody predicted they'd be stopped by inexpensive drones and homemade loitering munitions. The Russians had superior numbers, better-trained units, and sophisticated air defences. They...

On social media, the noise against the Rafale never stops. The deal is too costly. India does not get the software codes. The Meteor missile cannot match the range of China’s PL-17. One hundred...

washington and Tel Aviv assumed decapitating Iran's leadership would be a much easier task and it would trigger the same unraveling seen elsewhere, where the US had invaded those sovereign nations. A Misconception Borrowed from...

On the surface, the Union Home Ministry’s plan to build nearly 40 permanent Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) campuses across West Bengal’s border districts reads like a procurement note. Some 50 acres of land, 1-1.5...

On August 7, 2026, inside the Al-Safa Palace overlooking Islam's holiest city, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a pact...

The latest protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are more than another episode of regional unrest. They expose a deeper structural problem confronting Pakistan: while Islamabad seeks greater diplomatic influence abroad, it continues to struggle...

On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed what has been described as the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, committing themselves to the principle that aggression against one would be treated as aggression against...

On August 7, in the holy city of Makkah, three men who lead very different countries stood together and signed a document that many in the region had been quietly expecting, and dreading, for...

Sheikh Hasina's latest press conference was far more than an interaction with the media. It represented a carefully calibrated political intervention intended to reclaim the national narrative after months of intense political upheaval, institutional uncertainty...