India retains top position as world’s largest arms importer
Retaining its position as the world’s leading arms importer, India is looking to upgrade and modernize its weaponry in view of growing threat perceptions from a volatile neighbourhood. The US and Russia continue to be the largest suppliers with more than half of global weaponry being supplied by the two countries, a Sweden-based research institute […]
US, Russia announce ceasefire in Syria from February 27
In a significant development, the US and Russia announced that they have agreed on terms and conditions in the war-torn Syria and declared that the ceasefire will come into effect from February 27.
Encounter ends in Jammu and Kashmir, 3 terrorists killed
The 48-hour siege of the five-storey Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Srinagar has ended with the killing of three suspected Lashkar–e-Taiba militants. Three terrorists hiding in a massive government campus in Pampore on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed after a 48-hour-long gun battle on February 22. During […]