Bangalore: Referring to the first consignment of India’s BrahMos missile to the Philippines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked whether all this could have been imagined during Congress rule."Yesterday, the first consignment of India’s BrahMos missile has been dispatched to the Philippines. This has generated employment opportunities in large numbers on the ground level. Could all

New Delhi: The Indian Navy on Saturday conducted Exercise Poorvi Lehar on the East Coast under the operational control of the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command.The exercise aimed to validate procedures and assess the Indian Navy’s preparedness to address maritime security challenges in the region effectively, the Ministry of Defence said in an official statement.The exercise

According to a report in the UK’s Financial Times newspaper, the West is irritated by the growing defence cooperation between China and Pakistan. The joint JF-17 Thunder fighter jet, the Burraq armed drone, and the specially designed AIP equipped submarines are all mentioned in the paper as examples of the close cooperation between the two countries, wrote Group Captain D.K. Pandey (Retd) in a

Beijing: China is challenging Japan’s recent evaluation of the threat posed to the Indo-Pacific region by Beijing, dismissing it as a hyped-up threat and a false accusation, Voice of America reported.According to Japanese media reports and the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s annual Diplomatic Bluebook (an annual report on Japan’s foreign policy and international diplomacy published by the Ministry of

Phnom Penh: The United States has called on Cambodia to be transparent in a proposed USD 1.7 billion canal project financed by China, which has worried neighbouring Vietnam over its potential impact on water resource management. VOA reported on Friday."The Cambodian people, along with people in neighbouring countries and the broader region, would benefit from transparency on any major undertaking

Islamabad: Owing to the economic crisis, the Pakistan government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif borrowed over Pakistan currency (PKR) 650 billion from banks to meet its rising expenditures within a week, Dawn reported on Saturday.The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data showed that the government’s borrowing from commercial banks reached a record PKR 5.5 trillion from July 1, 2023 to April 5,