India is the fourth most powerful nation influencing the Asia-Pacific after the US, China and Japan but has lost its "major power" status in 2020, a study showed.

Taiwan has launched its "new southbound policy", which is looking at setting up large scale production bases in India, in tune with a surge in the New Delhi-Taipei engagement.

Marking a significant shift in policy, India has invited Australia to participate in the annual Malabar series of naval exercises, marking the first time that the `Quad’, which includes US and Japan will conduct extensive wargames . . .

Defence public sector undertaking (PSU) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (MDSL) will hand over its fifth Scorpene-class submarine to the Indian Navy by the end of this year or early next year, a top company official said.

A Corporal of Chinese People's Liberation Army was apprehended in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh on Monday after he had strayed across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Army said.

Twitter on Monday responded to the controversies about an error in a geo-tagging issue, where Jammu and Kashmir was shown as a territory of China during a live broadcast by a senior journalist, saying the issue has been addressed.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, in his first overseas summit since taking office last month, agreed with his Vietnamese counterpart to step up defence and security cooperation in the face of China's expanding influence in the region.

Around 30,000 candidates on Sunday participated in the written examination for recruitment in the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, . . .

China is closing in on the US as the most powerful country influencing the Asia-Pacific, as America’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic tarnishes its reputation, a study showed.

Former president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam was once asked: "Can science create a ‘Cool Bomb’ to defuse or deactivate the deadly atom bomb?"

Pakistan Army is conspiring to push large groups of terrorists in Kashmir in order to create disturbances, said security agencies, adding that Pakistan's Border Action Team is also active at some of launch pads near Line of Control . . .

Agriculture Minister Kurasala Kannababu and Kakinada MP Vanga Geetha on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the aircraft museum being developed by the Godavari Urban Development Authority (GUDA), . . .

Amid the ongoing standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), 8th round of Corps Commander-level talks between India and China are slated to take place this week.

Prominent leader of the Nepali Congress, Jeevan Bahadur Shahi has come out in public to expose the fact about China’s encroachment of Nepali territory in Humla.

The Maharashtra Police on Sunday gunned down five Naxals during an exchange of fire in the Gyarapatti area of Gadchiroli district. The face-off took place at Kosmi-Kisneli forest around 4pm, the Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police (SP) office said.

A landslide in central Vietnam on Sunday buried at least 22 army personnel, just a week after another landslide killed 13 as heavy rains continued to pound the region, state media reported.

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the CRPF was injured in a grenade explosion in Pulwama district district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

The navies of India and Sri Lanka will conduct a three-day military exercise off Trincomalee beginning Monday, in a show of growing congruence in their strategic interests and operational convergence in the region, officials said.