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India seeks status as a global power, the Pentagons top intelligence chief told US lawmakers on Tuesday, adding that as such New Delhi perceives its strategic forces as necessary elements to achieve that goal. (Representational Image)

India seeks global power status: Pentagon intelligence chief

India has put its first domestically-built nuclear submarine, the INS Arihant, into service.

7 March 2018 10:58 AM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called a piece of that Iranian drone, or whats left of it, after we shot it down. (Photo: File)

Netanyahu hails US policy on Iran, calls on world to back

'We call on the entire international community to join this American position,' Netanyahu said.

22 May 2018 10:57 AM IST

Abe and Trump spoke by telephone a day after American and North Korean officials met at a border truce village to prepare for the summit. (Photo: AFP)

Donald Trump, Shinzo Abe say 'imperative' to dismantle North Korean...

Trump said the summit could go ahead as planned following a more appeasing statement from Pyongyang and productive talks...

29 May 2018 8:59 AM IST

Pakistan and India flag (Representational image)

Forced to test nukes in 1998 due to 'hostile posturing' by India:...

India conducted a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions at the Pokhran in May, 1998, which was soon followed by...

28 May 2018 8:28 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

Our beliefs on a nuclear war might have to be revised

Ironically, attention drawn to a US-North Korea crisis or other potential flashpoints makes the nuclear establishment in...

3 March 2018 1:35 AM IST

Israel, at 70, remains a restless warrior

Israel's biggest diplomatic breakthrough happened when Egypt, once a mortal enemy and leader of the anti-Israel Arab...

15 May 2018 1:41 AM IST

Since the Winter Olympics in the South, Pyongyang and Washington have agreed to the unprecedented Singapore meeting. A woman walks by a huge screen showing U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Photo | AP)

South Koreans feel hope and doubt ahead of Trump-Kim summit

Some hope for an end to Cold War confrontation and North will eventually give up its nuclear weapons.

11 Jun 2018 2:39 PM IST

The US Navy said the Indian, Japanese and US maritime forces look forward to working together and advance their working relationship. (Representational image)

China govt hackers steal massive cache of US Navy data: report

A Washington Post report says some 614 gigabytes of material were taken in the breaches that occurred in January and...

9 Jun 2018 9:31 AM IST

I will certainly meet with Iran(ian leadership), if they want to, the US President said. (Photo: AP)

After Trump aide's warning, Iran threatens to hit US, Israel targets

US-Iranian war of words has escalated since Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the world powers' nuclear deal with...

23 Aug 2018 11:36 AM IST

Nevertheless, Tokyo insisted today: There is no change in our basic recognition concerning the threat of North Koreas nuclear weapons and missiles. (Photo: AP)

North Korea still 'serious, imminent threat': Japan on Korean...

Japan's 2018 defence white paper said Beijing was sparking 'security concerns in region and international community,...

28 Aug 2018 12:26 PM IST

This combination of photos show North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left) on April 15, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea and US President Donald Trump in Washington on April 29. (Photo: AP)

Nuclear weapon negotiation never on table: N Korea in clash with US at...

North Korea has pursued its weapons programmes in defiance of UN Security Council sanctions and ignored all calls.

23 Aug 2017 7:34 PM IST

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that US investments in China would bear the brunt of any trade war. (Photo: AP)

We are not your enemy, says Tillerson to North Korea

Tillerson said the US does not think productive talks would result if N Korea came with the intention of maintaining...

2 Aug 2017 1:03 PM IST