Opinion

“3-D lattice Luneburg lenses had been fitted on the ‘Lakshay’ pilotless target aircraft (PTA) and launched into Pakistan; it was made to loiter near the Pakistani border but on the Bharatiya side during ‘Op...

Nepal is witnessing an uncomfortable rerun. Less than a year after a youth uprising burned down Singha Durbar and forced KP Sharma Oli from office, the generation that engineered that upheaval is back on...

The carefully choreographed week-long funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28, was a message to the world of unity and solidarity within Iran. The gathering of his supporters was possibly...

The Aerospace and Defence (A&D) industry has undergone multiple waves of transformation — from labour arbitrage to globally distributed engineering ecosystems and the rise of Global Capability Centres (GCCs). These models enabled scale, efficiency,...

Three weeks after Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding meant to convert a fragile ceasefire into something durable, the process has not merely stalled; it has broken down into open fighting. On Wednesday,...

Around one-fifth of the world's oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making it strategically the most important maritime chokepoint on the planet. For decades, its significance has rested on a simple principle:...

On July 13, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will formally launch India's campaign in New York for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2028-29 term. It is, on paper, a...

When Donald Trump landed in Ankara this week for NATO's annual summit, the alliance's carefully choreographed script survived roughly as long as his motorcade took to reach the venue. What followed was, by multiple...

"Peace is not merely the absence of violence, but the presence of justice." — Martin Luther King Jr. More than three years after ethnic violence engulfed Manipur in May 2023, the state remains politically fragile,...

The death knell for the idea of Pakistan may be sounded not from areas outside its borders, but from the occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir and Balochistan - a reality that now appears...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand are best understood not as three separate bilateral engagements but as a carefully sequenced strategic mission across the Indo-Pacific. Coming immediately after the...

Indonesia’s Signal to the World: In international affairs, seemingly technical decisions often carry profound strategic significance. Indonesia's decision to build its own sovereign digital ecosystem inspired by India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), while integrating...

Since the early Cold War, the United States has maintained a complex, often transactional relationship with Pakistan. Pakistan joined US-led alliances like SEATO and CENTO in the 1950s, providing bases and intelligence against Soviet...