Indian Army soldiers in Ladakh.New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, which is headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, approved proposals for capital acquisitions of various equipment required by the Indian armed forces at an approximate ...
An Indian Army soldier training with a Sig Sauer rifle.New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, on Monday, approved the purchase of another 72,000 Sig Sauer assault rifles for the Indian Army from the United States. The deal is worth ₹780 cr...
Africa is the world’s second most populous continent (after Asia) and more than 1.3 million people call it home – accounting for more than 15% of the world’s population. The continent is often acknowledged as the birthplace of human...
Leh: Indian Air Force vice-chief Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora on Friday visited forward air bases in Ladakh sector of Western Air Command (WAC), including advance landing ground Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO).DBO is the world's one of the highest advan...
New Delhi: Stating that India does not only share waters of the Indian ocean with Mauritius but also a common heritage of culture and language, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the partnership between two countries is destined ...
July 26 is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery. Were the intelligence agencies not able to convert the information avai...
An Indian Army T-90 tank during a desert drill.New Delhi: In order to give a fillip to the government’s ambitious initiative “Make in India” programme, the defence ministry (MoD) signed a pact with Bharat Earth Movers Limited for pr...
New Delhi: In order to give a fillip to the government’s ambitious initiative “Make in India” programme, the defence ministry (MoD) signed a pact with Bharat Earth Movers Limited for procurement of 1,512 mine ploughs for the Indian ...
Representative photo from Creative Commons.“... somewhere, my love”War is about death. Death of the human body and humanity per se. Erik Maria Remarque in his epoch-making “All Quiet on the Western Front” got his lead characte...
New Delhi: Amid rising tensions along the northern borders, the defence minister Rajnath Singh-headed Defence Acquisition Council, on Wednesday, delegated powers for progressing urgent capital acquisition cases upto ₹300 crore to the armed forc...