State keen to set up defence component units
A private company has approached the state government to set up a Rs 600-crore plant in south Gujarat to manufacture defence components, Arvind Agarwal, MD Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) said on Tuesday.
He was speaking at...
BAE in talks to supply Hawk jets to India
BAE Systems is in talks with the Indian government to supply up to 60 more Hawk trainer jets to the countrys military in a deal that could be worth up to £500m ($768m).
A deal would probably see Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), the state-run...
IAF vice-chief prefers reverse engg to build defence systems
IAF Vice-Chief Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora today suggested India should go the Chinese way by gathering technical data to produce defence equipment through reverse engineering.
Addressing a gathering at a convention of The...
China denies hacking allegations
China on Tuesday dismissed reports that Chinese hackers have broken into top secret files of the Indian Defence Ministry and embassies around the world, saying that it was firmly opposed to hacking and regards it as an international crime.
“We have been...