With Pakistan and China ramping up their nuclear missile capabilities, India has taken a decisive step to strengthen its defense. New Delhi is installing Russia's advanced Voronezh radar system in Karnataka's Challakere, within the DRDO campus. This powerful radar boasts an impressive range of 8,000 km, extendable to 10,000...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted India’s automobile sector is witnessing an unprecedented transformation, driven by the aspirations of the people of the country. While inaugurating the six-day Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi today, Mr Modi said that the journey of Viksit Bharat...
The US Department of Homeland Security announced the addition of 37 more businesses to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), including five solar supply chain providers.
Signed into law by US President Joe Biden in December 2021, the UFLPA places a ban on all solar product imports from China's Xinjiang region,...
The Biden administration’s final major policy move landed this week with a significant impact on global AI, as it unveiled the most comprehensive AI chips export controls to date. This eleventh-hour decision, announced just days before the administration change, divides the world into AI computing haves and have-nots, with...
Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has launched the second multi-purpose vessel for the Indian Navy from its Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai.
The launch of the vessel, christened INS Utkarsh, comes within three months of the launch of the first MPV INS Samarthak.
The first vessel is being readied for undergoing...
WASHINGTON: A senior White House official on Thursday (Dec 19) said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an "emerging threat" to the United States.
Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer's surprise revelation underscored how...
PENTAGON: A Pentagon report says the Chinese military experienced “a new wave” of corruption among its senior leaders last year that may have disrupted progress toward its military modernization goals, even as China ratcheted up aggression toward Taiwan and the Philippines.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s annual China Military Power...
Chinese exports of tomatoes, chili peppers, marigolds and other farm products grown in the far-western region of Xinjiang are tainted by forced labor as well as the coercive transfer of land from Uyghur peasants to Chinese businesses, new research shows.
The growing of these goods is also tainted by the...
A disturbing video has emerged showing a teacher slapping, pushing down and pulling the ear of a Tibetan student in front of other students gathered on what appears to be a sports field.
The video, which contains no sound, was contained in a report released by the Tibet Action Institute,...
A US$10-billion oil project in Uganda being developed by France’s TotalEnergies and CNOOC of China has been linked to human rights violations, with rights groups accusing the local authorities of repression and forced evictions, and citing sexual violence and environmental damage in connection with the project.
The project forms a...
