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New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) With some of the frontline fighter aircraft and other aerial assets from Indian Air Force (IAF) providing support, Indian Army is all set to test its desert warfare skills in the peak summer in Rajasthan. Codenamed 'Exercise Shoorveer', the exercise is aimed at validating...

HYDERABAD, APRIL 23: Global aircraft major Boeing is setting up a transonic wind tunnel facility in Hyderabad. The facility, the first of its kind in the country and under ‘Defence offsets', could involve an expenditure of Rs 400-450 crore. The Defence Research and Development...

Sanand: The first sight of India's newest "Motor City" is a collection of giant blue-and-grey structures, windowless boxes in corporate colours that are the hallmark of modern manufacturing. The warehouses and machining plants, walled in on an enormous site of more than 1,000 acres (400...

Killing of infants on the rise in Pakistan - CNN At a morgue in Pakistan's largest city, five linen pouches -- each the size of a loaf of bread -- line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each small sack is the corpse of an infant. The babies are victims of what one relief...

NEW DELHI: Road ministry has ended the year on a high as it has awarded 62 projects covering 7,957 kms in the current fiscal, 57% higher than the previous year. The government is all set to achieve its earlier announced target of building 20 kms of road per day by 2013-14, as it has completed...

HAL's sales for 2011-12 cross Rs 14,000 crore - The Economic Times Hindustan Aeronautics Limited clocked Rs 14,001 crore sales during 2011-12, an increase of 6.74 per cent over the previous year, according to provisional financial performance for the fiscal. Profit before tax for the...

Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos has developed an anti-aircraft carrier variant of the 290-km supersonic cruise missile. "We have achieved the capability to attack aircraft carriers using the supersonic vertical diving variant of the missile and after demonstrating the capability...

Highway projects put on fast track - The Economic Times NEW DELHI: After being ridiculed by the Opposition for derailing the highway development during its first innings, the UPA-II has revived the sector . With huge interest shown by the private sector to invest in highway development, the...

An aggressive posturing by India, including mounting an export delegation in mid-March 2012 to Iran to promote Indian exports has met with resistance from the United States. India's direct trade to Iran under rupee payment may now be in the realm uncertainty. Besides, even transactions via...

India tops commercial vehicles sales chart - The Economic Times NEW DELHI: India surpassed every other country in 2011, including China, in sales of commercial vehicles, repeating its feat as the world's fastest growing truck and bus market for the second successive year in a row. Sales of...