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Topic: US Pentagon

Trump orders resumption of nuclear weapons testing ‘on equal basis’ with other powers before Xi meet

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defense...

Debit what comes in (as taxes), credit what goes out (as freebies)

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Trump fires top military general over diversity efforts in major Pentagon shake-up

General CQ Brown Jr was appointed by Biden administration as 2nd black chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. The broader shake-up in Pentagon is spearheaded by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

US will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes, says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

The Pentagon chief said the United States will dig deep to meet Ukraine’s most urgent needs — especially for air defense and ammunition.

US Pentagon’s top China official Michael Chase has arrived in Taiwan, FT reports

Pentagon Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense's visit to Taiwan could exacerbate tensions between Beijing & Washington. He is the senior most US defence official to visit Taiwan since 2019.

Pentagon awards $9 billion cloud computing contracts to Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Oracle

The contracts will run until 2028 and provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels.

USAF secy needs Pentagon escort but Indian attaché doesn’t — that’s how deep India-US ties are

Frank Kendall, Secretary of the US Air Force, says the unescorted access to Pentagon for Indian defence attaché 'is aligned with the trust and cooperation we share'.

China’s ‘coercive nature’ in Indo-Pacific is discussed frequently among Quad, Pentagon says

Pentagon Press Secy John Kirby also said that US has been 'honest' about its concerns with Pakistan for a long time about the terrorist safe havens along the border of Afghanistan.

Afghan army collapse ‘took us all by surprise’, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says

Top US military leaders point rare criticism at key decisions by Biden & Trump, say their personal view was that US troops should have stayed to bolster the Afghan government.

7,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan, 5,200 US troops still in Kabul: Pentagon

Major Gen Taylor, who has been given the responsibility to airlift US citizens, said the increase in evacuation numbers is reflective of a ramp up of aircraft & airlift capability.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.