National Security

The Rajiv Gandhi Era incident In October 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited the United States and met with President Ronald Reagan. In private conversations, the US President told Rajiv Gandhi that Pakistan had “already made the bomb”. There is a declassified

Everyone who has seen the film Dhurandar knows that the story of the Khanani brothers in Pakistan, was a real one. These Khanani brothers were involved in circulating fake currency and money laundering business for over a decade. They not only helped

A Memorable First Meeting at the NSCS On the 1 January 2015, I was sitting in my office in the National Security Council Secretariat when it was announced that the new National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval would be visiting all officers

At the end of June 2026, a tribal organization in Arunachal Pradesh alleged that China’s Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) had encroached into Indian territory in the Taksing region of Upper Subansiri District in Arunachal Pradesh. The Nah Welfare Society (NWS) in a

The opening scene of the film Dhurandar shows R. Madhavan (Ajay Sanyal) in the role of Ajit Doval, currently National Security Adviser (NSA), then Additional Director, Intelligence Bureau, talking to the passengers on board IC 814. Once the negotiations between the Indian

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on 8 May 2026, ​that its board had cleared the way for Pakistan, to access about US$ 1.32 billion ​in fresh funding immediately. The IMF said, “Pakistan ​would be able to draw around US$ 1.1 billion

  Of the five S-400 systems contracted with Russia in 2018, three were delivered by 2023. It is only now that Russia has managed to deliver the remaining two systems. The delay was in some ways fortuitous, as India expended all its

‘General Elections’ in Gilgit Baltistan, violent protests and deaths in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and prevailing unease in both areas that constitute Pakistan’s illegal occupation of territory of the Jammu and Kashmir State are not new or revolutionary. India’s response to the

The Gujarat Police launched Operation ‘Delta Hunt’ to detect and deport illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the State of Gujarat. Launched in June 2026, the operation has thus far seen over 600 illegal Bangladeshi nationals being detained by the police. This is a

In the epic Ramayana, when Rama and Lakshamana are fighting Ravana and his brothers in Lanka, they come across the phenomenon of ‘Maya’ or the enemy using magic to disappear on the battlefield. This was the art of camouflage; today, the Indian