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India's sea lions: Navy's marine commandos get a makeover and reveal a leaner and meaner new look The Indian Navy's elite marine commandos, Marcos, have undergone a makeover. Members of a Marco stick - eightmember quick reaction teams of the force - were seen in the new gear while on...

Farnborough 2012: “Yesterday we had Raptor salad for lunch” Typhoon pilot said after dogfighting with the F-22 at Red Flag Alaska Although a Royal Air Force Typhoon took part to the daily air display, the most interesting thing at Farnborough International Airshow 2012 was the opportunity to...

K. Vijayakumar, Director General of Police, Central Reserve Police Force, has said that the paramilitary force is on the fast track to modernisation and its combat battalions are quickly inducting the latest firearms and reconnaissance equipment to effectively deter armed insurgents with lesser...

Indian operator Aircel sprung a pleasant surprise Friday by announcing that it had slashed the iPhone 3GS price to Rs. 9,999 (US $180). While the iPhone 3GS is available for free on a contract in the US, as far as total cost of ownership is concerned, the Aircel deal is probably the cheapest...

NEW DELHI — Russia is drawing up plans to claw its way back to the top of the Indian defense market, which is supplemented by the U.S. and other European suppliers. Russia was at one time the biggest arms supplier to India and has been a reliable vendor since the Cold War era. But due to...

1) IMR-3M Obstacle-Clearing Vehicle A vehicle built for heavy engineering in tough environments, it's hard not to respect this road-clearing (or -creating) monster. The two-man crew inside the vehicle can breach tree entanglements, blaze an 8-mile trail in an hour and lift 2 tons with a...

Tesla inherited from his father a deep hatred of war. Throughout his life, he sought a technological way to end warfare. He thought that war could be converted into, "a mere spectacle of machines." In 1931 Tesla announced to reporters at a press conference that he was on the verge of...

NEW DELHI: The number of mobile phone subscribers in India rose to 929.37 million in May with Bharti Airtel alone signing two million new subscribers, says official data. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data released Wednesday evening, with an addition of 8.35...

If you are travelling by a train, chances are it is moving at a speed of about 65 km/hour, which is the average speed of Indian passenger trains. The average speed for freight trains is even lower. However, if plans announced by the prime minister materialise, a speed of about 350 km/hour could...

Islamabad: Hours after reports emerged that Pakistan was to free Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, the presidential spokesman tonight clarified that authorities had taken steps for the release of another Indian prisoner named Surjeet Singh who has been jailed for three decades. "I think...

Why isn't there a troll thread? This is a suggestion though! There has been a significant boost of members on Defence.pk and the number of newbies has prompted an exponential increase in the number of trolls and spams all across. There's a general psychology of getting ego-hurt at times which...

Tianya.cn, China's biggest online forum confirmed on Sunday that private information for 40 million users had been leaked, three days after the country's largest programmers' website CSDN reported a similar leak. Tianya is one of the most popular sites in China; it’s the nexus of China’s...

Chennai: Nine satellite launches, a policy for managing remote sensing data and commissioning of the country's fastest supercomputer - India's space agency can look back at 2011 with a fair sense of satisfaction, though the scrapping of a controversial spectrum deal with a private company...

There are a few things a newbie needs to know about PDF.I have been in touch with this site since January 2011 but joined it in August 2011.In this brief period what I have noticed about PDF and what kiddies should know about it to really get the things going here are put under a nutshell: Who...

I am just curious to know that, is saying "Merry Christmas" a crime of some sort in Islam. I mean no offenses to hurt anyone's emotions or any religious sentiments.It was this muslim girl that apparently wrote "Merry Christmas" on her FB wall and then all hell let loose on her. P.S.:I...