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India’s foreign ministry said on Friday that conditions along its frontier with China are disrupted from time to time when Chinese forces depart from established patrolling patterns, after the head of the border police said confrontations with Chinese troops were continuing in Arunachal Pradesh File Photo Via: @ITBP_official on X Asked about those remarks, the ministry spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, referred questions to the defence ministry but said the situation in the border areas was periodically disturbed when Chinese forces diverged from agreed patterns. Both countries continued to use diplomatic and military channels to settle outstanding issues and avoid misunderstanding along the Line of Actual Control, he said, and had agreed to discuss ways to improve a shared understanding of the line in some areas. Earlier, Shatrujeet Kapur, director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, told personnel at a base in Alwar, Rajasthan, on Thursday that face-offs had occurred at severa...

India’s defence minister released a new Land Warfare Doctrine for the army on Friday and told its senior commanders to plan on a horizon of twenty to thirty years while remaining ready for immediate threats Image Source: @rajnathsingh on X Rajnath Singh, addressing the Army Commanders’ Conference in the capital, said the doctrine provided an overarching framework for preparing the force for the changing character of warfare and for future conflicts. He told commanders to watch geopolitical and regional developments closely and to keep strategy flexible enough to adjust as circumstances changed. He returned to Operation Sindoor, the military action India conducted against targets in Pakistan in May 2025, saying its success rested on innovative thinking, greater synergy and coordination, supported by advanced weaponry. The operation had made clear that India would not hesitate to act to protect its interests, he said. Singh praised the army’s restructuring and its use of drones, a...

India and Poland set a target of doubling bilateral trade by 2030 and agreed to establish a defence industry dialogue, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk ended three days of talks in India accompanied by around a hundred Polish chief executives Image Source: PIB The two sides also agreed to open a dialogue on counter-terrorism, and India welcomed Poland’s decision to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, an Indian-led body on infrastructure and climate risk. The relationship was raised to a strategic partnership during Modi’s visit to Warsaw in August 2024, when the two adopted an action plan running to 2028. Foreign ministers reviewed it in Warsaw in September. Much of the economic discussion turned on the free trade agreement concluded between India and the European Union, which has not yet been signed or ratified. Both leaders called for that to happen early and for the agreement to be implemented on time. Modi said it would open Polish markets to Indian machinery, ...

India called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on Tuesday to dismantle what it described as the entire ecosystem of terrorism, and said connectivity projects across the region would not last unless they respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries they passed through Image Via: @rajnathsingh on X India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who led India’s delegation to the 25th meeting of the grouping’s Council of Heads of Government in the Tajik capital, said terrorism cost innocent lives, deterred investment and commerce, radicalised societies and denied young people opportunities. “There can be no justification for terrorism, no double standards in addressing it, and no place for those who finance, support, or provide safe havens to terrorists,” he said, according to a press statement from India’s defence ministry. On connectivity, he said India backed initiatives that linked markets and opened new routes for trade, naming the International North-So...

India commissioned the first of class Multi-Purpose Vessels (MPVs) built by a private company for the first time. This is being seen as a shift in a naval shipbuilding programme that had run for decades almost entirely through state-owned yards Image Source: @VPIndia on X INS Samarthak entered service at the navy’s base at Karwar on the Arabian Sea coast at a ceremony presided over by Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan and attended by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, Karnataka’s labour minister Santosh Lad, and executives of Larsen and Toubro, the engineering group that built her. Swaminathan described the ship as the first major warship contracted to and constructed by a private shipyard. Indian private firms have supplied the navy with components, smaller craft and dock infrastructure for years, but the warships themselves have come from government-owned yards. The admiral was measured about what follows. Shortening the journey from prototype to pr...

The Indian Navy will commission Samarthak at its base in Karwar on 16 October, the first of four multi-purpose vessels built under the domestic manufacturing programme. Representational Image Source: @indiannavy on X The ship is designed primarily for maritime surveillance and patrol. The Navy says she can also conduct low intensity maritime operations, serve as a platform for target deployment and trials, operate as a mothership for unmanned and autonomous systems, carry out humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, be converted into a limited hospital ship, and undertake salvage work. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗨𝗻𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲. ⚓ Unveiling the crest of #Samarthak, the #IndianNavy’s first Multi-Purpose Vessel, set to be commissioned on 16 Oct 2026. Featuring a formidable Indian elephant emerging from the waves, the crest symbolises strength, intelligence and agility. “विजयार्थम् एकनिष्ठता” - 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗶𝗺. ?...

Defence minister says the navy is escorting Indian-flagged gas tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, and that recent warships are more than 75 per cent Indian-built Image Source: @rajnathsingh on X India will induct or commission 18 warships during 2026, the largest single-year addition in the history of its navy, the defence minister said on Tuesday. Rajnath Singh, addressing the second Indian Navy Commanders' Conference of the year in New Delhi, described 2026 as a historic year for the service and said the scale of the expansion reflected the maturing of India's domestic shipbuilding industry. Warships commissioned recently contain more than 75 per cent Indian-made content, he said, adding that India should now aim to export warships to friendly countries rather than only meet its own requirements. The expansion comes as the navy carries an unusually heavy operational burden in the Gulf. Singh said the safe passage of Indian-flagged merchant ships, particularly liquefied ...

Belize-flagged MT Seagull 9 lost engine power and began flooding in the Bay of Bengal before a boarding team stopped the leak Image Source: PIB India The Indian Coast Guard has stabilised a listing chemical tanker carrying 9,000 tonnes of palm oil and 23 crew about 37 nautical miles east-south-east of Paradip, off India's eastern coast, averting what it said could have been a capsizing. The Belize-flagged MT Seagull 9 sent a distress call at about 7.30am on Sunday after its main engine failed and a ballast tank flooded rapidly, tilting the vessel dangerously. Ballast tanks hold seawater to keep a ship upright and trimmed; uncontrolled flooding in one can cause a list a crew has no power to correct. The patrol vessel ICGS Vishwast was sent to the position, and a specialist damage-control team boarded the unstable ship. The team deployed submersible pumps to remove water, stopped the leak, sealed off two damaged seawater pipelines and contained a third that had fractured, removing ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced transfer of state-developed missile technology to industry, and said India will act against terrorism while seeking no country's territory File Photo Via: @rajnathsingh on X  India will transfer missile technologies developed by its state defence research agency to private companies, allowing them to manufacture conventional missile systems for the first time, the defence minister said on Sunday. The Defence Minister told a defence conclave in New Delhi that qualifying Indian firms would be able to produce the systems, a change he said would improve the armed forces' preparedness and speed up deliveries. The Defence Research and Development Organisation, which has until now both designed and overseen the production of such systems through state-owned firms, would increasingly concentrate on research while industry took on a larger share of manufacturing. The announcement came alongside figures showing a sharp rise in India's arms...

India on March 25 continued to mount a coordinated political, diplomatic and administrative response to the escalating West Asia war, with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stating he was “ pleased to meet US Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby ” and that they “exchanged views on the current geopolitical scenario,” even as the 18th India–US Defence Policy Group meeting in New Delhi saw both sides “review ongoing initiatives,” identify “priority areas for co-development & co-production of defence equipment,” and “reaffirm commitment to enhancing military-to-military cooperation through joint exercises, training visits & strategic exchanges,” signalling that defence coordination with Washington is also being sharpened alongside the unfolding conflict. A snapshot from U.S.-India Defense Policy Group; Via: USAmbIndia on X The engagement was reinforced at multiple levels, with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meeting Colby to discuss “advancing bilateral defenc...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has explicitly identified India’s evolving nuclear capabilities as part of a broader global expansion of strategic weapons, stating in its 2026 Annual Threat Assessment that “India also is developing new and longer-range nuclear delivery systems,” placing New Delhi within a cohort of states advancing range, survivability and deterrence options. File Photo of Indian Navy’s successful precision strike in the Arabian Sea by ship launched BrahMos missile The report situates India’s nuclear trajectory within a shifting deterrence landscape where delivery systems, not just warhead counts, are becoming central. (Page 18) It warns that adversaries are “research[ing], develop[ing], and field[ing] delivery systems that will increase their ranges and accuracy, challenge U.S. missile defenses, and provide new WMD-use options”. T his formulation has directly framed India’s advancements alongside those of China, Russia and Pakistan. At the regio...

India’s armed forces have intensified joint military training and expanded their maritime footprint across the Indian Ocean region, signalling a broader push to strengthen operational readiness and regional partnerships as global security tensions rise. Image Via: Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) In the Nicobar Islands , the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) conducted a tri-services training exercise involving integrated air, land and sea operations, with assault troops supported by air and surface assets. The command said the drills were aimed at sharpening operational capability across multiple domains. “ANC continues its alignment towards professional excellence by conducting tri-services training at Nicobar Islands in coordination with troops from mainland formations,” the command said, adding that the exercise strengthened “jointmanship, interoperability and combat readiness of multi-service assault troops.” The drills are significant because the Andaman and Nicobar Comman...

The Budget Session of India’s Parliament descended into repeated disruptions on Monday after Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi attempted to quote from the unpublished memoir of former Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address. This triggered sharp objections from the treasury benches and forced multiple adjournments before the House was suspended for the day. Rahul Gandhi ups the ante on national security; via: Shaandelhite The confrontation unfolded when Rahul Gandhi rose to respond to remarks made earlier by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, who had criticised the Congress party’s record on nationalism .  Rahul Gandhi said he wished to counter those allegations by referring to passages concerning India’s military standoff with China , which he attributed to Naravane’s memoir, titled Four Stars of Destiny , and to a magazine article that had cited the unpublished book.  Highlights of Speech 02 Feb, 2026 S...

The Indian Army has reported a year of measured stability and strategic recalibration across the country’s sensitive frontiers in 2025, with progress in disengagement talks along the northern borders with China, improved security across the Northeast, and continuing counter-infiltration operations along the western boundary with Pakistan. According to the Ministry of Defence, the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the northern sector has remained “stable yet sensitive” following the 2024 disengagement agreements in Depsang and Demchok.  File Photo: Spokesperson MoD These breakthroughs contributed to a notable reduction in deployment levels by China’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 2025. However, the PLA continues to maintain a combined arms presence of 10 brigade-sized units in both tactical depth and traditional training areas, with no substantial changes observed in their border management posture compared to the previous year. The Indian Army’s deployment ...

In a move aimed at deepening strategic ties in North Africa, India has opened a dedicated Defence Wing in Rabat and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Morocco to formalize and expand military cooperation. Image Source: Defence Minister Singh The agreement, signed by India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Moroccan counterpart Abdeltif Loudiyi, lays the foundation for a broad-based security partnership covering counter-terrorism, defence industry collaboration, joint training, cyber defence, peacekeeping, and maritime security. Key Strategic Shift The decision to establish a permanent defence presence in Morocco signals a calibrated shift in India’s West Africa and Mediterranean outreach.  It is the first such defence wing India has opened in the Maghreb region, reflecting New Delhi’s intent to forge long-term military and industrial linkages with Rabat. Focus Areas Under the MoU: Joint military exercises and officer training Defence industry collaborati...

India and France continues to deepen their  defence cooperation. Now,  an Indian Army contingent has departed for the 8th edition of the biennial joint military exercise SHAKTI.  The two-week exercise will be conducted from June 18 to July 1, 2025, at Camp Larzac in La Cavalerie, France. Image Source: PIB India on X The Indian contingent, represented primarily by a battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles along with personnel from other arms and services, comprises 90 troops.  Their French counterparts, also numbering 90, will participate from the 13th Foreign Legion Half-Brigade (13th DBLE). Exercise SHAKTI is part of the ongoing effort to enhance operational coordination, interoperability, and military-to-military engagement between the two nations.  This edition focuses on joint operations in a sub-conventional environment, in line with Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, with drills to be conducted in semi-urban terrain. The exercise provides an op...

A Royal Navy F-35B stealth fighter remains grounded at Thiruvananthapuram airport more than 48 hours after it made an emergency landing on Sunday.  The aircraft, part of the UK's HMS Prince of Wales Carrier Strike Group currently deployed in the Indo-Pacific, was forced to divert after reportedly running low on fuel. Military experts have termed the incident unusual but not without precedent. Image Source: CISF on X The Indian Air Force, which is providing assistance, described the diversion as a “normal occurrence.” However, the fighter remains grounded as efforts continue to address suspected mechanical issues.  Media reports suggest that poor weather conditions may have prevented the aircraft from safely recovering onto the Prince of Wales aircraft carrier. Defining Security Beyond Borders CISF swiftly secured the Royal Navy F-35B fighter jet after its emergency landing at Thiruvananthapuram Airport. Accredited for excellence in aviation security, CISF continues to uphold...

Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) will manufacture Rafale fighter aircraft fuselages in India, under a new production agreement with Dassault Aviation . The agreement, which involves four Production Transfer contracts, marks the first time Rafale fuselage components will be built outside France. Dassault called it a "decisive step" toward strengthening its global supply chain with India as a key node. Image Source: TataAdvanced on X As part of the collaboration, a state-of-the-art facility will be set up in Hyderabad to produce critical structural components of the Rafale, including the rear fuselage, lateral shells, central body, and forward section , according to an Economic Times report. Production is scheduled to begin in FY2028, with the facility targeting an output of two complete fuselage assemblies per month. “This is a decisive step in strengthening our supply chain in India,” said Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation. “Our partners like TASL ...