One is built to overwhelm targets with blistering speed, while the other relies on stealth and low-altitude flight. Here's how India’s BrahMos and Pakistan’s Babur cruise missiles compare.

Except in the corridors of power in New Delhi—where his name is anathema to the Hindu nationalist government—it’s hard to find anything but esteem for Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur, a man remembered in ...

Extending the narrative of the Baburnama, the memoirs of the founder of the Mughal empire, from the previous column: Babur descends into the Indian plain at the head of 12,000 horsemen. Two decades ...

"Panipat, with its crowded houses and suburbs, would be our shield on one side; the other sides protected by carts and mantlets behind which our foot soldiers and matchlock men would stand." These ...

With the successful launch of Babur-3 missile, Pakistan completes its nuclear triad. New Delhi: With the first successful test of the submarine-launched Babur missile, Pakistan has taken a giant step ...

Since the departure from Andijān last year (AD 1500), Babur’s family has seen abundant hardships. Now finally after things had begun to settle for him in Samarkand, his mother and wife reached ...

Manimugdha S Sharma is a Delhi-based editor with The Times of India. He is an ardent history buff with a fascination for military history. He loves infantry and artillery weapons, horses and swords, ...

Fourteen appeals have been filed in the Supreme Court against the verdict. Mughal emperor Babur neither visited Ayodhya nor ordered demolition of the temple to construct a mosque in 1528 at the Ram ...