For over a decade, India’s defence modernisation story has suffered from a familiar contradiction: ambitious budgets on paper, slow capability induction on the ground. Successive governments have raised capital allocations, announced indigenisation drives, and promised faster procurement. Yet squadrons remain below sanctioned strength, submarine numbers stagnate, and critical enablers are repeatedly deferred. The Union Budget…
India’s defence manufacturing base has expanded at pace. Industrial bottlenecks in defence manufacturing in India are increasingly shaping how quickly military capability can be translated from policy intent into deployable force. The defence production in the country hit record levels in FY 2024–25 and exports reached new highs. And yet the same structural chokepoints that…
In the past month, India has faced a momentous escalation in tensions with Pakistan, following a series of events that have tested national security and diplomatic resilience. It also put forth the importance of nuclear deterrence. What happened and how did it come to be? Let’s have a look. Pahalgam Attack: Harbinger to Collapse of…
There have been recent rumours about a nuclear radiation leak at Pakistan’s Kirana Hills, particularly following India’s Operation Sindoor. These claims have been officially denied by both Indian and international authorities. Indian authorities even denied having knowledge of the location of Pakistani nuclear bases. Following India’s Operation Sindoor, which targeted terrorist infrastructure, speculation arose about…
There is a creeping sense of déjà vu in South Asia.. In the past two weeks, the Kashmir Valley has witnessed a disturbing escalation in violence after the Pahalgam attack that left 26 civilians dead. What was disturbing was Pakistan’s use of tactics that bear a striking resemblance to those employed by militant groups in…
Last week, India faced one of the deadliest terror attacks on civilians in a decade. About 26 tourists, most of them Hindus, were identified by their religion and shot dead by terrorists belonging to Pakistan-backed The Resistance Front. The terror outfit is an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. The incident triggered heavy tension between the two…
In April 2025, tensions between India and Pakistan reached a critical juncture following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, which claimed the lives of 26 tourists, most of them Hindu. The terrorists from The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pakistan-based and ISI-backed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, reportedly asked for the religion of the victims before…
This is an analysis based on publicly available government statements and multilateral reports; sources linked below. India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan for the first time in its 65-year history, following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir that killed at least 27 civilians. But it is not for the…
In what has been described as the deadliest terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir since the revocation of Article 370, Islamist terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists, picking them by name and faith, at Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam, killing at least 26 people. The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of Pakistan’s ISI-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba…
“You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles,” said the U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters, effectively blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the Russia-Ukraine War, once again. Trump has held Zelensky responsible for triggering the war with Russia, just a day after…