On This Day in History, June 8: Porsche is born, Ghostbusters release, Siam renamed Thailand, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four published, NFL merger announced, Robert F. Kennedy laid to rest and other major eventsOn This Day in History, June 8, the world witnessed events that shaped politics, warfare, literature and culture. The Viking raid on Lindis...
07 Jun, 2026, 10.49 PM IST
Bandar Abbas under attack again? Why the world fears every strike near Bandar Abbas as the renewed Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens the global oil shockThe US has struck Bandar Abbas again. For the second time in less than a week, American forces targeted Iran's most critical southern port ...
28 May, 2026, 09.49 PM IST
Russia flexes nuclear muscles as tensions rise with NATORussia is conducting large-scale nuclear drills involving thousands of personnel. These exercises include missile tests and the issuance of...
21 May, 2026, 10.26 PM IST
Iran's threat to Hormuz submarine cablesIran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to impose permits on submarine fiber-optic cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Thi...
20 May, 2026, 10.43 PM IST
US military says it seizes another oil tanker associated with IranUS forces seized another tanker linked to Iranian oil smuggling in the Indian Ocean, escalating tensions after Iran captured two vessels in...
23 Apr, 2026, 05.47 PM IST
"No Australian personnel participated in offensive action": Albanese on Navy members aboard US submarine that sank Iranian warshipThree Australian Navy members were aboard a US submarine that sank an Iranian ship. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed their presenc...
06 Mar, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
Iranian sailors recovering in Sri Lankan hospital after US submarine attack, authorities sayIranian sailors are recovering in Sri Lanka after a U.S. submarine strike in the Indian Ocean. Eighty-seven lives were lost in the attack. ...
05 Mar, 2026, 07.32 PM IST
U.S.-Russia nuclear war: Is World War 3 happening? What we know so farRussia and the USA have exchanged nuclear threats which have raised apprehensions over whether there will be World War III or not.
02 Aug, 2025, 05.31 AM IST
US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUSThe U.S. will significantly increase its submarine presence off the Western Australian coast under the AUKUS partnership, with the USS Minn...
16 Mar, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Wuhan is in the news again after the COVID-19 outbreak; this time a Chinese attack submarine sank at a shipyard in the cityA new Chinese nuclear-powered assault submarine sank at a Wuhan shipyard, raising questions about China's military capabilities and governa...
28 Sep, 2024, 11.11 PM IST
China naval power aims at parity with the USAChina is rapidly expanding its naval fleet, surpassing other nations in shipbuilding numbers. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is g...
06 Aug, 2024, 05.04 PM IST
UK companies to design, manufacture AUKUS nuclear submarinesThe first of the submarines will be delivered into service in the UK in the late 2030s and the first Australian ones will follow in the ear...
03 Oct, 2023, 07.27 AM IST
Indian Navy to build, operate a mix of nuclear, conventional submarine fleet"For Australia, the threat is more in the open oceans and the areas around that area. The decision to scrap a conventional submarine deal m...
04 Oct, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
South Korea blazes new path with 'most potent' conventional missile submarineSeoul says the conventionally armed missile is designed to help counter any attack by North Korea. Analysts say the unusual weapon also che...
08 Sep, 2021, 01.52 PM IST
Australia looking at 'Plan B' for troubled French sub dealAustralia is boosting defence spending as it looks to a rapidly rising and more assertive China and as decades-old American security guaran...
02 Jun, 2021, 02.14 PM IST
United States' nuclear submarine transits Strait of Hormuz amid tensionsThe Navy's 5th Fleet based in Bahrain said the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia, accompanied by two other warships, passed t...
22 Dec, 2020, 05.30 PM IST
India may get US, French cos as partners for building nuclear submarinesThe Indian SSN project — expected to cost over Rs 1 lakh crore — is an ambitious plan to design and produce a nuclear attack boat.
14 Jul, 2018, 04.04 PM IST