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Covid-19: Exemptions not enough to defend India’s defence...

Like many other industries, the lockdown has hit the defence manufacturing sector hard despite essential works in the sector exempted from restriction...

Finding Nagaland: Tribes on India-Myanmar frontier dream o...

The king of the Konyak tribe sleeps in Myanmar, but eats in India - his house, village and people divided by a mountain border which serves as a vulne...

India is now the world’s third largest military spender

With an expenditure of $71.1 billion in 2019, India has emerged as the third largest military spender in the world, just behind the US and China. In...

Pakistan is adapting its training for emerging air warfare...

Though fiscal constraints made it more difficult for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to add new combat aircraft and support systems to its fleet, equipme...

Pakistan showcases military might in large-scale naval dri...

The Pakistani Navy test fired on Saturday a variety of anti-ship missiles in the North Arabian Sea from surface vessels, and from fixed wing and rot...

Pakistan has placed strategic missiles near the Indian bor...

Pakistan has moved its missile and strategic weapons closer to the Indian border as tensions between both nations have been escalating after unrelenti...

The CAA's provision for cancelling OCI registration is aim...

Snuggled into the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a seemingly insidious provision that states that Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Registration c...

No dignity in death: How ignorance, irrational fears are o...

Can the novel coronavirus spread from a patient’s dead body to people living around the cremation or burial site? Both international and nation...

Exit from lockdown

After the last four months of the raging pandemic around the world and here at home, one thing has become clear by now--covid-19 is here to stay for s...

SAMI in $5 billion MRO venture in Bangladesh

Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) is planning to invest $5 billion in a bid to set up an MRO (maintenance, repair, and operating supply) facili...

A luckless Afghanistan faces a coronavirus disaster

The spread of Covid-19 in Afghanistan has created a smokescreen that no one seems to be able to see through. The situation is complicated by the dwind...

Why Pakistan has not 1 but 3 Chinese-made tanks

The Pakistan-China defense relationship has progressively deepened since Pakistan’s relationship with the United States began fraying in recent...

Mystery Submarine in service with Pakistan’s Navy SEALs

Some of the best-kept secrets are hidden in plain sight. Sitting on the quayside at PNS Iqbal, a special naval base in Karachi, Pakistan, is a submari...

Elite Siberian T-55 Tanks: Modernized features to strength...

Security is considered as a key element for the establishment of the state. Pakistan faced many security threats since it emerged as an independent st...

China to launch stealth fighter Shenyang FC-31, anxious In...

The Shenyang FC-31, twin-engine, fifth-generation fighter jet appearing for time in PLA colours has sparked speculation that the aircraft could enter...

Indian Navy prepared for deployment amid China's increased...

The Indian Navy on Tuesday asserted its war preparedness while stating that it has continued to maintain its operational vigil in the Indian Ocean Reg...

The noose tightens on Myanmar's media

Around 9.30pm on March 23, police raided the home of a Mandalay-based editor and arrested him on terrorism charges for publishing an interview with a...

Slow internet is speeding the spread of the coronavirus in...

When Indian-administered Kashmir confirmed its first coronavirus case on March 18, Iqbal Saleem, a professor of surgery at Government Medical College...

Covid-19 pandemic won’t affect S-400 deliveries: Indian en...

All the major military contracts, including the deliveries of S-400 air defence missile systems, between Russia and India will be on schedule and the...

India’s first batch of Rafales to fly in late

The arrival of the first batch of Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force is likely to be delayed by around three months due to the COVID-19 pand...

Pakistan launches relief program for families suffering fr...

Pakistan has begun delivering one-off cash payments of about $70 each to its 12 million poverty-stricken families, or roughly 80 million individuals,...