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Pak aiming to rake up Kashmir issue, experts warn NEW DELHI: Repeated aggressive actions by the Pakistani security establishment and irregulars with its blessings reflects a long-term strategy, and could be aimed at reviving Kashmir issue as South Asia awaits US troop withdrawal from...

MiGs touch down on the Vikramaditya’s deck The final phase of tests on the INS Vikramaditya commenced on Monday, August 5, with a joint practice mission involving naval aircraft from Russia’s Northern Fleet. The mission, in which MiG-29s performed several approaches at different altitudes...

Russian Air Force to Get First T-50 Fighter Jet This Year, IAF Next Year The Russian Air Force will take delivery of its first fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet “in the third quarter of this year” for final state test flights starting in the fourth quarter, the service’s commander Lt...

LoC attack: Will do right thing in national interest, Khurshid says NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday said it will weigh all options in the wake of an audacious attack by Pakistani troops that killed five soldiers without creating a situation detrimental to the country's peace and security...

Maritime power vital for safeguarding maritime interests: Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi, Chief of Naval Staff on Monday said that maritime power is vital for safeguarding maritime interests. Joshi delivered the Gen B C Joshi lecture on ‘Indian Navy-Maritime Power for National Prosperity’ at...

Exclusive commando unit takes charge of Parliament security An exclusive specially trained paramilitary unit armed with the latest gadgets and weaponry has now been deployed for security of India’s Parliament house complex. The team, drawn from the best trained men and women of the...

Navy makes high-strength steel for warships Indigenous manufacturing of India's largest warship — the 37,500-tonne aircraft carrier INS Vikrant — has ended the nation's decade-old reliability on import for military grade steel, needed for warship building. When the chips were down for...

A momentous occasion for CSL Kochi: The launch of the first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on August 12 will be a momentous occasion for Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) which achieved the feat in four years of laying the keel under trying conditions. The warship is expected to join...

In 13 years, India got only $4.94 million as defence FDI NEW DELHI: India remains the world's largest arms importer, having failed to develop a strong defence industrial base (DIB) despite all the tall talk since the 1999 Kargil conflict. Here is the latest shocker: the country has attracted...

Ukraine sends first batch of air-to-air missiles to India The state-run joint stock holding Artem (Kyiv) has sent the first batch of R-27 medium-range air-to-air missiles produced for the Indian Air Force to the customer, the Ukroboronprom concern has reported, with reference to its...

ISRO to focus on R&D, industries’ space pie to be scaled up Industries’ contribution to India’s space programme would be significantly scaled up as ISRO looks to focus predominantly on Research & Development (R&D), the space agency’s chairman K Radhakrishnan has said...

DRDO’s mini bomb tracer a hit in US In a first of its kind of reverse technology sharing between India and the US, an innovative Explosive Detection Kit developed by Indian scientists would be manufactured in America and sold globally for quick detection and identification of combinations...

AMCA: Stalled With Ministry of Defence which now officially has put “ on hold ” country’s ambitions fifth generation stealth multirole fighter development AMCA project to fast track delays incurred by the ADA in development of LCA Tejas combat aircraft and to make sure no more delays are...

India expressed interest in Patriot air defense system : Raytheon Raytheon Co is poised to book billions of dollars worth of orders for its Patriot air and missile defense system in the coming months, underscoring the resurgence of a weapon first developed to defend Europe against a possible...

Boeing to Deliver 3 More C-17 by year end Indian Air Force (IAF) has taken possession of second C-17 Globemaster III recently, barely a month after India’s first C-17 arrived in the country , Boeing plans to deliver three more C-17 Globemaster III by end of 2013 bringing IAF C-17 fleet...

India Inc races to bag orders from defence sector With the Indian economy slowing down, top companies are now eyeing the “recession-proof” defence sector to prop up their topline. Indian companies are targeting orders worth $247 billion expected from the Indian defence establishment in...

More than US, Japan is the ally India must court Did you know Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States, visited India recently for four days? Well, neither did anybody else, because it was the lowest-key of low-key trips. Nobody paid any attention, including India’s loud and...

Whose finger on the nuclear trigger at sea? On 17 January 1955 when the USS Nautilus—the world’s first nuclear submarine—sailed out deploying the rector for propulsion for the very first time its captain, Commander Eugene Wilkinson (who died last month at the ripe age of 94), radioed the...

'Collusion of people with bases in Pak.' Afghanistan vowed to neutralise elements behind the third major attack on Indian diplomats and government personnel while South Block hinted at the collusion of people with bases in the tribal regions of Pakistan. A late night telephone conversation...

‘Pak, India need to cut defence spend’ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said both Islamabad and New Delhi need to sit down for serious talks to resolve the lingering issues between them for the benefit of their respective countrymen. During a meeting with a delegation...