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Amazon was considered the lead contender to provide technology for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) programme, with Amazon Web Services dominating the cloud computing arena and the company already providing classified servers for other government agencies including the CIA. Amazon has alleged it was shut out of the deal because of Trumps vendetta against the company and its chief executive Jeff Bezos. (Photo | AP)

Pentagon reaffirms deal with Microsoft for cloud computing despite...

However, the contract can't move forward yet due to a court order putting it on hold as Amazon pursues a lawsuit over...

5 Sept 2020 9:50 PM IST

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | US doesn't really want to know why it lost in Kabul

The macabre headlines about US Marines urinating on a pile of dead Afghans made Page One in many newspapers

9 Oct 2021 1:55 AM IST

Taliban fighters wave from the back of a pickup truck, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Many Afghans are anxious about the Taliban rule and are figuring out ways to get out of Afghanistan. (AP /Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

Taliban celebrate defeating the United States

US' longest military conflict drew to a close on Monday when its forces abandoned Kabul's airport, where it had overseen...

31 Aug 2021 12:50 PM IST

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen have targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (AP/Wali Sabawoon)

Islamic State group claims latest Kabul attack

The attack did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai...

30 Aug 2021 7:26 PM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

K.C. Singh | Engage Iran & Russia to keep Pak in check in Afghanistan

The US also did not expect the rapid collapse of the Afghan National Army (ANA), which has left Afghanistan in chaos

17 Sept 2021 2:13 AM IST

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Is fall of Kabul a Humpty Dumpty moment for US?

President Biden's address to the American people suggested a lack of geopolitical sapience

3 Sept 2021 1:18 AM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden defends departure from forever war,' praises airlift from...

Biden has faced tough questions about the way the U.S. went about leaving Afghanistan, a chaotic evacuation with spasms...

1 Sept 2021 11:14 AM IST

The 50-year-old plane crashed near the Savannah airport. (Photo: File/AFP)

9 killed after US military cargo plane destroyed in fiery crash

The C-130 'Hercules' cargo plane from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed around 11:30 am (1530 GMT) near the...

3 May 2018 1:05 PM IST

The Pentagon has said that New Delhi has offered the United States with aviation maintenance and developmental aid. (Photo:AP)

Pentagon prohibits the use of geolocation software for deployed...

The Pentagon made public a memo which said the geolocation capabilities presented a significant risk.â€

7 Aug 2018 7:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Militarisation of space is not anything new

In order to offset America's massive satellite surveillance networks, lasers are also being developed to effectively ...

22 Aug 2018 1:18 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)

Stay focused in Afghan, avoid playing US game

India's contribution to Afghanistan in development assistance adds up to $3 billion so far.

31 Aug 2017 12:50 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches the test launch of solid fuel Pukguksong-2, a medium-to-long range ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo: AP)

As Pyongyang fires 3 missiles, China bans new business ventures by N...

The ban also prohibits the expansion of any existing joint ventures involving North Koreans in China.

26 Aug 2017 7:46 PM IST