Shreya Mundhra

1 week ago | firstpost.com | Shreya Mundhra

The past couple of weeks have been extremely tense for India-Pakistan relations. It reached a fever pitch with India executing precision strikes on terror infrastructure spread across nine strikes— Operation Sindoor. Pakistan vowed to retaliate, in what is being called the worst clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours in over two decades.

1 week ago | firstpost.com | Shreya Mundhra

The Indian Army conducted a practice firing of its indigenous Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher system at the Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan a few days ago, a source aware of the development told Firstpost. In consideration of the operational sensitivity of the matter, the date of the recent firing practice was not revealed. The next round of Pinaka firing is scheduled to take place in a few weeks’ times, the source said, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the development.

1 week ago | firstpost.com | Shreya Mundhra

In the aftermath of the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, India took swift diplomatic actions against Pakistan. The country was accused of having a hand in the horrific incident that took 26 lives. India sought to hold its neighbouring country accountable for its support to terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and by extension, offshoots like The Resistance Force (TRF), which had initially claimed responsibility for the attack.

2 weeks ago | firstpost.com | Shreya Mundhra

Germany is on the cusp of inaugurating a new chancellor, bringing to a close a rather turbulent political chapter that began nearly six months ago with the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government. The collapse was triggered by Scholz’s contentious decision to dismiss Christian Lindner, the fiscally conservative finance minister from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), after months of disagreements over Germany’s budget planning.

3 weeks ago | firstpost.com | Shreya Mundhra

The Indian Army has achieved a historic milestone. The service, for the first time, has used Rs 35,000 crore out of the funds earmarked for the purchase or development of long-term assets, particularly military hardware and infrastructure, a source from the Ministry of Defence with knowledge of the development told Firstpost.