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Breaking the Bofors jinx, India and the US today inked a nearly Rs 5,000 crore deal for 145 M777 ultra-light howitzers, which will be mostly deployed near the borders with China. This is the first deal for artillery guns since the Bofors scandal in 1980s. "India has today signed the Letter of...

Indian Army in another great show of strength carried out two days long special heliborne exercise in the deserts of Rajasthan. The heliborne operation has the capability to surprise the enemy and exploit targets weakened by the effects of deep fires. Airborne and heliborne forces are...

NEW DELHI: A staffer of the Pakistan high commission, who was detained by police for alleged possession of sensitive defence documents and was immediately declared persona non-grata, has been asked to leave India within 48 hours , MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Thursday. The staffer...

The Indonesian Navy's KCR-40 missile attack craft, KRI Clurit, which failed to successfully fire a C-705 missile at the 'Armada Jaya' 2016 exercise on 14 September. Source: TNI-AL Key Points Attempts to launch C-705 missiles from two Indonesian warships during an exercise has failed Failures...

When the Line of Control was demarcated after the Shimla Agreement, it was done with a “thick pen” on a small scale map – 1/4 inch to a mile or one centimetre to 2.5 kilometre scale. Once interpreted on a large scale map – one inch to a mile or one centimetre to 500 meters – the differences...

Just as the Philippines hauled China before an international arbitral tribunal in The Hague over Beijing's expansive claims in the South China Sea, Pakistan recently announced its intent to drag India before a similar, specially constituted tribunal in the Dutch city. Pakistan is citing a...

A Pakistani spy was on Friday arrested in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan and he has confessed that he played an instrumental role in smuggling around 35 kg of RDX into India. The spy named Nandal Maharaj was nabbed based on intelligence inputs from the RAW. A cellular phone has also been also recovered...

BORDER PATROL: An army team in Sub-Sector North along the Line of Actual Control with China. The process of force enhancement was put in place over the last five years. Bunkers drilled into barren hills, battle tanks at over 14,000 feet, and additional troops on newly built roads. India’s...

The Indian Army has been deployed across the country under the aegis of United Nations Mission In South Sudan (UNMISS). South Sudan, world's youngest nation is in the news and again for the wrong reasons. Upon landing at the international airport in Juba on Thursday morning, Minister of State...

TIRUNELVELI: The long-awaited Unit-2 (Reactor-2) of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) attained criticality at 8.56 pm on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at Koodankulam, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) Chairman and Managing Director S K Sharma said the KKNPP Unit-2 is the...

VISITORS to the Talegaon plant of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian engineering company, might confuse it for the props department of a film studio. Half-a-dozen hangars spread over 50 acres near Pune, a city in western India, are filled with enough weaponry to thrill a Bond villain: camouflaged...

The first artillery gun after three decades — a 155mm/45-calibre Dhanush gun — will be inducted in the Indian Army, said defence minister Manohar Parikkar during an event organised by ex-servicemen in Panvel on Thursday evening. The last artillery gun — a Bofors gun — was inducted in 1984. By...

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force staged the second day of massive military exercises in southeastern Iran. http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/04/13/photos-irgcs-massive-drills-in-southeast-iran-continue-for-second-day/

Negotiators from Afghanistan, India and Iran have reached agreement on the contours of a deal that will turn an Iranian port near Pakistan into the hub through which all roads to the region from India will run. An Iranian guard looks on at oil docks at the port of Kalantari in the city of...

India on Wednesday approved a $150 million credit line for the development of Iran's Chabahar port, the government said in a statement. The port in southeast Iran is central to New Delhi's efforts to circumvent arch-rival Pakistan and open up a route to landlocked Afghanistan where it has...

KARACHI: Once the producer of almost half the country's steel needs, state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills' (PSM) cavernous factory buildings on the outskirts of the metropolis stand eerily still. A 4.5-km-long conveyor belt that once carried coal from the nearby port is idle and blast furnaces rest...

In what could be a major leg up to Make in India initiative, Sweden-based Saab Group will form joint venture with defence arm of Kalyani Group (KSSL) to manufacture air defence systems. The joint venture, which will be set up by Saab and KSSL, will handle the main part of production and...

India has conveyed to China in categoric terms that it was going to expedite construction of infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh and that it shouldn’t try to disrupt it taking the excuse of un-demarcated boundary as it had done on some previous occasions...

For lower-caste Hindus, a Soneri cup symbolises deep-rooted bigotry KOTRI: Marked by its vibrant interior of red and blue walls, Hajiri Kohli’s modest hotel is popular with communities living on the outskirts of Kotri and Hyderabad. As one enters, the smell of chai fills the air and the...

Sightings of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) are always a thrill in sci-fi comics and films, but in real life - especially when a country is under terror threat and has recently faced terror attacks, it can make people extremely nervous, even in broad daylight. Two back-to-back sightings of...