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Documentary on Chilika lake will be an eye-opener Nature lovers and environmentalists can enjoy the beauty of Chilika lake in Odisha and the bird life there in a 20-minute documentary film, made by Chennai-based Wildlife Filmmaker Shekar Dattatri. Normally one gets to watch documentaries on...

BANGALORE, FEB 13: Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has handed over the first ‘Crew Module Structural Assembly’ for the ‘Human Space Flight Program’ to ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). The first crew module will be further equipped with systems necessary for crew support, navigation...

BBC News - The housewives taking on militants in Kashmir

A rare insider’s narrative on the world’s fastest growing nuclear complex ot just the revelations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden tell us that the United States has recently stepped up surveillance of Pakistan’s nuclear activities. The London-based International Institute of...

The indigenous Kaveri aero engine, conceived to power home-built fighter plane Tejas but generally written off as a 25-year, Rs. 2,100-crore drain on resources, now looks set to resume where it left off two years ago and complete the last lap of its development. A surprisingly strong nudge...

More than four decades ago, the Nixon Administration knowingly broke US law to help Pakistani Army against Bangladesh and encouraged China to mass troops on Indian border to oppose the strong stand taken by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, according to a new book. In his latest book...

The payload of INSAT-3D adds a new dimension to weather monitoring through its atmospheric sounding system, and provides vertical profiles of temperature, humidity and integrated ozone. India’s weather satellite INSAT-3D, carrying advanced weather monitoring payloads, was launched...

MUMBAI, JULY 4: Boeing and Dynamatic Technologies Limited have teamed up in a supplier contract for the CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Dynamatic will manufacture the pylon and cargo ramp assemblies for Boeing’s model CH-47F Chinook. Dynamatic Technologies, a $275 million company, designs and...

In yet another gun battle in South Kashmir, police and security forces on Monday night claimed to have killed at least one militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba at Neelora village of Pulwama district. The operation was launched when police received a tip-off regarding presence of two militants at...

Close on the heels of the death of four soldiers and three militants in two gunfights in Pulwama district, the Jammu and Kashmir Police and security forces have killed the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s “district commander,” Altaf Baba, in yet another encounter on Wednesday. Sources said the police, the...

Two persons, including a Hizbul Mujahideen militant were arrested along with a loaded pistol and two grenades in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The militant, identified as Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, was arrested by a police party during a search operation at Tachloo...

One of the most dreaded Pakistani militants and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s “Divisional Commander” in North Kashmir, Qari Naveed alias Fahadullah of Multan, Pakistan, has been arrested in a joint operation by J&K Police and Rashtriya Rifles 22nd battalion in Sopore, in north Kashmir...

They gather in large numbers to pay respects to slain CRPF constable “Fidayeen? Ah… I’m sorry. I don’t know what it means. I’m hearing it for the first time,” was how S. Mohammad Shahid, Imam (worship leader) of Masjid-e-Maamoor, a mosque at Thummanaickanpatti in Peraiyur Taluk near here...

NEW DELHI: The government is set to remove software and consultancy services out of defence offsets in the wake of Italian investigators finding that middlemen involved in the VVIP helicopter scandal routed kickbacks into India through a phony software contract. The government is also...

Indira Gandhi planned military intervention in 1983 to save Indian-origin leader When President Pranab Mukherjee lands in Mauritius on Monday, he will be buttressing a relationship with an Indian Ocean nation that is so central to India’s security interests that it went to the extent of...

NEW DELHI, MAR 4: India bought Mirage-2000 warplanes for Rs 133 crore each in year 2000, while the cost of upgrading the aircraft came to Rs 167 crore per unit in 2011, Defence Minister A K Antony said today. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, he said, “The last contracted price for each...

BANGALORE: Russia has placed orders worth Rs 65 crore for procuring 34 radar computers for Su-30s of its air force. "Irkut Corporation of Russia has confirmed purchase of 34 sets each of Radar Computer-I & Radar Computer-II for Russian Air force requirements from HAL with delivery schedule...

Development of Rustom-2 (H) HALE UAV will shift into higher gears from next year, when Agencies will start testing components for Rustom-2 (H) HALE UAV, According to media reports first prototype will be ready by end of 2013 and first flight is likely to occur in first quarter of 2014...

SRINAGAR: Two militants were believed to have been killed and as many security force personnel injured in an overnight encounter in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Kashmir. The house, in which the militants were hiding, has been razed to ground and a search is on to locate the bodies of...