India Needs A National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......

Villages To Safeguard India's Borders

In underlining the role of border villages as custodians of India's frontiers, New Delhi is following China's example in Tibet. IMAGE: Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi presents a memento to......

Are Russia, Ukraine On Brink Of Nuclear Conflict?

With the fight now having been taken to the seizure of nuclear plants, it is one more warning to Europe that this prolonged war could end up with disastrous consequences, observes Rashme Sehgal......

Mpox a public health emergency of global concern: WHO

The World Health Organisation has declared mpox a public emergency of international concern. IMAGE: Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case......

Cabinet nods two agri schemes worth Rs 1 lakh crore

Union Cabinet on Thursday approved rationalisation of various agri schemes into two umbrella programmes -- PM Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and Krishonnati Yojana -- with an expenditure of over Rs......

2 crore more houses to be constructed under PM Awas Yojana

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister  Narendra Modi, on Friday approved the proposal of the Department of Rural Development for construction of two crore more houses under the......

Geopolitical situation a bigger worry for markets than rate hikes: Analysts

An escalation in the already simmering tensions between North and South Korea, China and Taiwan, and Russia and Ukraine could prove to be a bigger worry for the markets over the next few months......

How IBM's Bengaluru unit is priming companies for cyberattacks

Located in a small township in the eastern part of Bengaluru is IBM’s new Security Command Centre, which is surrounded by offices of multinational tech companies. Photograph: Dado......