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The credibility of claims made in a recent BBC report that the Indian intelligence agency RAW funded Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), have been seriously weakened following a statement by the Britain’s Metropolitan police. The BBC story had quoted a senior MQM source as having...

The joint India-Russia missile project BrahMos has been the single most successful joint military-technical collaboration between the two countries, and it appears the prospects for its usage are just beginning. Both countries need to increase this kind of strategic collaboration. Russia and...

Fugitive Indian Mujahideen commander Muhammad “Bada” Sajid has been killed while fighting with Islamic State forces in Syria, online jihadist media claimed on Friday. Isabah Media, the propaganda wing of the Indian jihadist group Ansar ul-Tawhid, announced “the martyrdom of our brother Abu...

Chhota Shakeel, the right hand man of India’s most-wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, decides to take TOI’s call.Excerpts from his explosive conversation with Raj Shekhar You tried to target Chhota Rajan in April. Is it true? Yes it is. Lage hue thhe peechhe (We have been tracking him). Could...

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on its 30th flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 10 with the heaviest ever payload (1,440kg) ever for a commercial launch.PSLV-C28 will launch the UK’s three identical optical earth observation satellites...

SRINAGAR: At least five infiltrating guerrillas and a soldier were killed overnight near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector of Baramulla district where the army said it foiled a major infiltration bid. "Alert troops noticed suspicious movement on our side of the LoC yesterday (Friday)...

NEW DELHI: Former Indian Mujahideen boss Yasin Bhatkal made a call to his wife from Hyderabad jail saying he would be out soon with help from Damascus, triggering fears about the jailed jihadi getting help from Islamic State, the terrorist organization which controls vast tracts of Syria and...

Pakistan’s weather is getting more extreme, less predictable. Concomitantly there is rising temptation to put the onus upon some human agency. Unsurprisingly, sinister and malign forces bent upon reshaping this country’s climatic pattern are being conjured up. But how well can they survive...

Indo-Israeli long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) is all set to be test fired from India’s largest Stealth destroyer INS Kolkata in coming months. LR-SAM missiles are currently been loaded into INS Kolkata and Navy plans to test the new missile system in its normal operational...

The Pentagon said on Wednesday that it would "deepen" its security relationship with India, noting that the US' global network of allies and partners is a unique strength that provides the foundation for international security and stability. In its 'National Military Strategy' for 2015, the...

China has been included on a list of 19 countries and regions the jihadist terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) intends to go to war with in order to secure “Islamic world dominion,” reports online news resource AfricaMetro. The list was released by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who...

Bengaluru, June 29: The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is all set undertake critical test flights carrying an array of missiles and bombs to complete its scheduled weapon trials. Top sources with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed to this Correspondent that the integration of...

NEW DELHI: The government has begun the process of having 70 supercomputers in the country, which will enable high-level research in different fields for not only government agencies but also the private sector. The supercomputer will help India do research in different fields ranging from...

The Indian Navy’s INS Sindhukirti to undergo final trials before officially re-entering into service with the Indian Navy next month.Indian Navy’s INS Sindhukirti will enter its final full-power trials after a decade-long renovation process. The attack submarine will officially return into...

Some weird arguing with me German army = 179,000 active troops Pakistan army = 650,000 active troops German tanks = 403 Pakistani tanks = 3,500 German Air Force = 637 total ( 200 fighter jets ) Pakistani Air Force = 1008 ( 744 - 850 fighter ) air superiority jets German intelligence =...

After the struggle of almost a decade, NDA government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the historic Rafale deal, cleared various defence projects and did many things which have impressed the soldiers of the nation. In one such remarkable step, the much waited...

Close to 70 per cent of India’s military hardware requirement is import-dependent and in foreseeable future, its import-export ratio may not get balanced out. However, that doesn’t stop the indigenous defence industry from aiming bigger, their spirits especially fuelled by the high-octane ‘Make...

Pakistan, on Thursday, accused India of politicizing the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee by making unfounded “insinuations” against it, days after China blocked India’s move calling for action against Pakistan over 26/11 mastermind Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s release. Foreign Office...

India’s first underground rock cavern on the eastern coast for storage of crude oil to hold country’s emergency reserves will be dedicated to the nation next month, officials said on Thursday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will commission the project developed by Indian Strategic Petroleum...

Close on the heels of NSCN-K faction announcing a bounty on the head of every Indian soldier “captured alive”, the Army has asked its personnel to remain extra-cautious while visiting their native places on holiday. “We have issued an advisory to our soldiers asking them to be extra-cautious...