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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicDrone attacks

Topic: drone attacks

Navy, Coast Guard intensify search & boarding operations after armed drone attack on MV Chem Pluto

Four guided missile destroyers — INS Mormugao, INS Kochi, and INS Kolkata and INS Chennai — deployed as deterrence and for keeping track of suspected vessels in Arabian Sea.

Attacks on India-bound merchant vessels intentional, says Rajnath, hints at ‘jealous forces’

MV Chem Pluto was attacked in Arabian Sea and MV Sai Baba in Red Sea. Navy has deployed three guided-missile destroyers in various areas to maintain deterrent presence.

BSF shoots down drone from Pakistan in Punjab’s Amritsar, seizes 5.5 kg heroin

This comes a day after the BSF had recovered a Pakistani drone along the international border near Rai village on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

On eve of Kyiv Day, Russia launches ‘largest’ overnight drone attack on Ukrainian capital

'History of Ukraine longstanding irritant for insecure Russians,' says Zelenskyy aide after Ukrainian Air Force claims it downed 52 ‘kamikaze’ drones launched by Russia.

Ukraine says it shot down 36 drones in overnight Russian attacks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it had been an 'uneasy night' but commended the work of air defences.

Drone attack sets ablaze parts of Russia’s Krasnodar oil refinery, says Tass news agency

A day earlier, a fuel depot further to the west caught on fire near a bridge linking Russia’s mainland with the occupied Crimea peninsula.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.