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New Delhi, June 30: The Tatas are planning to join hands with its car distributor in Bangladesh — Nitol Motors — for a truck plant at Kishoregunj near Dhaka. The facility will manufacture 30,000-40,000 Ace pick-ups a year. Matlub Ahmed, chairman of Nitol Niloy Group, that owns Nitol Motors...

CRPF jawan gives first-hand account of Naxal attack Raipur: Twenty-seven CRPF jawans were killed and seven injured in a major Naxal attack in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. A CRPF constable who survived the attack gave NDTV a first-hand account of how the party was...

Naxals slit CRPF men's throats, smashed heads Raipur: The brutal face of Naxals who killed 27 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday came out when they slit open throats and smashed the heads of some of the security men...

Maoist bandh begins; local Cong leader shot dead Ranchi/Kolkata/Bhubaneswar, June 30 (PTI) Maoists killed a local Congress leader in Jharkhand's Garhwa district and injured a jawan of the joint forces in West Bengal's West Midnapore district as their two-day five-state shutdown began today...

Raipur: A day after 26 security personnel were massacred by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, eight Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a blast on Wednesday when they were attempting to defuse a landmine near Cherpal village in Bijapur district, police said. "A CRPF team...

Raipur: A day after 26 security personnel were massacred by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, eight Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a blast on Wednesday when they were attempting to defuse a landmine near Cherpal village in Bijapur district, police said. "A CRPF team...

This is the result of ignoring the maoist theat for decades by the Central and State Goverments. Even now, there is seems to be no plan to deal with the maoists who seem to have total control of significant portions of those areas such as Chattisgarg etc that have a history of poor governance...

Raipur: Twenty six CRPF jawans have been killed and 23 injured in what is being seen as another major Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh. Sources said at least 90 Maoists ambushed a 70-strong CRPF road-opening party in an area under Dhaurai police station in Narayanpur district of the state, at...

Russia's fifth generation fighter will be about three times as cheap as its foreign analog, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. He observed the test flight of a prototype fighter and later talked to the pilot, Sergei Bogdan. "It will be a machine superior to our main...

Eight Maoists killed in police encounter in West Bengal MIDNAPORE: At least eight Maoists have been shot dead and several others injured in an encounter between the rebels and joint forces in the Maoist affected West Midnapore district of West Bengal. The exchange of fire at Ranja forest...

mig 21 bison?

A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Halwara air base in Punjab, but the pilot bailed out safely. The crash took place at around 11.15 am just outside the Sidwan Khas Range in Halwara, 33 km from here. “A MiG-21 Type 96 aircraft crashed around 11.15...

BY : BarentsObserver Russia plans to buy 24 new MiG-29K fighter jets for the country’s only aircraft carrier, the Severomorsk-based “Admiral Kuznetsov”. A contract on purchase of 24 fighter jets for Airwing Kuznetsov could be concluded within two years, a source in the Ministry of Defence...

Iran’s sole Simorgh AWACS aircraft was lost during a military parade Sept. 22, one of two Iranian military aircraft that crashed in Tehran while participating in a display to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force operated a...

Old grenades are proving to be a problem area for the Indian Army, the officer responsible for maintaining quality assurance admitted Thursday. “They (the grenades) are very old. They are of vintage quality and we are looking into it,” Lt. Gen. J.S. Dhillon, who heads the Directorate General of...

Five American soldiers have been killed in a wave of attacks across southern Afghanistan. They died during operations aimed at reversing insurgent gains in parts of the country that were beyond the reach of coalition forces before President Obama’s summer surge. The deaths come as Washington...

PARIS — Two French Rafale fighter jets crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday as they were returning to their aircraft carrier after a test flight, the navy said. One of the pilots was rescued "safe and sound" after he ejected from his supersonic aircraft, navy spokesman Commander...

MIG 21 crashes in Punjab, pilot killed Muktsar, Sep 10 A MIG 21 fighter aircraft of IAF today crashed in Muktsar district of Punjab, killing the pilot. The war plane was on a routine sortie and had taken off from Bhatinda airbase, Muktsar Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal told PTI over...

MIG 21 of the Indian Air Force has crashed today near Bhalania village in Punjab. This resulted in the death of the pilot who is from the nearby training institute of the area. This is the seventh crash of the Indian Air Force this year. It is learnt that the MIG lost radio contact with the...

IAF Sukhoi fighter jet crashes; navigator killed New Delhi: One person was killed when a frontline Su-30MKI combat jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed while on a routine training mission in Rajasthan, an official said. The crash occurred at 1030 hrs IST., some 70 km southeast of...