Aakash Sharma

The QUAD is often seen as a counterweight to China in the Indo-Pacific. But can it avoid the fate of past minilaterals? History offers a warning, and perhaps a roadmap.

From Indian suppliers to global darknet forums, Captagon's shadow trade is thriving despite a Rs 180-crore crackdown.

As Iran signals possible fees on submarine internet cables near Hormuz, India could face indirect implications, with several key undersea networks carrying telecom and digital traffic passing through the Gulf region.

As Trump and Xi meet in Beijing, the summit will revolve around familiar fault lines: Iran, trade, rare earths, AI, and Taiwan. While neither side enters with a decisive upper hand, China appears to hold slightly greater leverage on some of the most immediate economic and geopolitical pressures shaping the talks.

India Today's Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) team pieces together how the US plans to reopen the troubled Hormuz after 66 days of traffic disruption.

AI-generated avatars delivering Parliament-style speeches are rapidly gaining traction on Instagram, with accounts jumping from under 2K views to reels crossing 2 million and 5 million. Blending real issues with exaggerated claims, this content is reshaping political discourse and amplifying synthetic influence.

As fragile ceasefire talks continue, the conflict shows no clear endgame. Iran's military has been weakened, but heavy US munitions use is straining stockpiles, raising concerns over how long Washington can sustain operations if fighting begins again and in the same direction.

The IRGC's true power lies beyond the battlefield; it operates as a business juggernaut, running a parallel economic network spanning foreign contracts, illicit trade, and shadow finance, using this vast financial web to sustain the Axis of Resistance and entrench its influence across Iran's economy and regional order.

Influencers are using reels of rubble, rallies and city life to show Iranian resilience amid war and internet curbs. With women at the centre, the posts recast Iran as a nation under attack, but not broken.

To make Hormuz navigable again, the United States is expected to deploy a mix of airborne and seaborne mine countermeasure assets, supported by allied navies.

Far from Isfahan, a decoy in the sky. India Today decodes the deception that appears to have cleared the way for America's rescue mission in Iran.

India Today's mapping reveals a widening energy war across nine countries, tracking strikes on key infrastructure, vessel disruptions in Hormuz, and threats to bypass routes, showing how the conflict is engineered to impose costs and transmit the heat of war onto the US, allies, and even uninvolved states.

India Today's Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analysed Iranian social media platforms running a campaign "plotting to kill" US President Donald Trump.

Amid security threats and drone reach, PSL downsizes, exposing the gaps and raising questions on whether financial commitments outweigh player safety in a volatile environment.

Iran's strikes on data centres mark a shift to targeting digital infrastructure to disrupt US and Israeli operations, degrade AI-driven targeting, and impose economic and reputational costs on Gulf states; in response, the US and Israel have struck data infrastructure in Tehran.

Satellite images provided to India Today TV by Vantor show the scale of damage after Pakistan's strike on Kabul's Omid Hospital.

US authorities seized four domains linked to Iran-backed hacker group Handala, accusing it of running cyber-enabled psychological operations and leaking sensitive data targeting US, Israeli and dissident figures.

Amid the widening US, Israel–Iran war, the cyber front intensifies as the Handala hacker group claims attacks on US companies and Israeli intelligence-linked figures.

Three vessels pass through the perilous Strait of Hormuz, but none are Indian-flagged. India Today uses maritime intel data to explain all about the Indian vessels stranded in the Strait.

India Today's OSINT team analyses wartime communication during the US Operation Epic Fury and India's Operation Sindoor. A comparison of messaging, speed, and institutional involvement in two modern conflicts.