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Indian Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth is on a three-day visit to Russia, from September 16 to 18, holding discussions with senior Russian officials on sustaining India's Russian-origin military equipment and exploring potential new defence…

A memorandum of understanding signed this week between US drone maker Powerus and the Pakistan Army has drawn attention because of the company's pending merger with a firm in which President Donald Trump's sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric…

Chinese military researchers have outlined a long-term concept for a nuclear-powered main battle tank fitted with an electromagnetic railgun theoretically capable of striking targets up to 450 km away, a proposal that has drawn global…

Around 400 soldiers, sailors and airmen from ten NATO nations took part in the Arctic Shield 2026 exercise in Greenland from September 7 to 18, a Danish-led operation aimed at strengthening the alliance's ability to defend the territory on…

President Donald Trump has pushed back against growing calls from AI industry leaders to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development, arguing that any move to hold back US progress would risk ceding ground to China in what he has…

China has strongly criticised the United States after its Space Force confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons into orbit, with Beijing warning against turning space into a battlefield and calling for an end to what it…

For decades, the standard answer from senior United States defence officials asked about American weapons in space was a careful non-answer. On 14 September 2026, that changed in a single sentence delivered mid speech, and the sentence was…

Last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced their way through the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, with some fleet-footed machines outrunning Usain Bolt's 100 metre pace. It made for good television. Two days after the games ended,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Russian translation of the ancient Tamil classic 'Thirukkural' during their bilateral meeting in New Delhi on September 11, held on the sidelines of the 18th…

Saudi Arabia has shut down its critical East-West oil pipeline after it came under drone attack, as the wider Middle East conflict escalates and Iran-aligned Houthi forces extend their control over Yemen's Red Sea coastline. The Saudi…