A SeaGuardian drone. (Photo: General Atomics) New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, gave its green signal to the armed forces to purchase 31 MQ-9B SeaGuardian, also known as Predator B, drone...
The NIMAS team at the summit of Mount Purgyal in Himachal Pradesh. (Photo by special arrangement) New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
An Indian Air Force MiG-21. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has grounded all its remaining MiG-21 fighter jets, India Sentinels has learned. This development comes within days of a MiG-21 crash in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district. T...
The Sir Creek area. The white line along the creek is the India-Pakistan international border. The red pin marks Rah-da-Pir. (Google Maps screenshot)New Delhi: Pakistan has been beefing up its infrastructure in the disputed Sir Creek region near the ...
S Jaishankar (L) with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the SCO foreign ministers’ meeting in Goa.Benaulim, Goa: At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers’ meeting here, India’s foreign minister, S Jaishankar, launched a sc...
File photo for representation.Udhampur/New Delhi: The number of Indian Army soldiers killed in Friday’s encounter with militants in Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri sector has climbed to five with three more soldiers succumbing to their inju...
Pradeep M Kurulkar. (Photo via DRDO website)Pune/New Delhi: The Maharashtra anti-terror squad arrested senior Defence Research and Development Organization scientist Pradeep M Kurulkar, on Thursday, for allegedly passing highly sensitive defence-rela...
An artillery gun in action during Exercise Buland Bharat. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the ...
Representative image.New Delhi: As Qatar starts the trial process against eight Indian Navy veterans working for the emirate’s subsidiary of Oman-based Dahara Global – a private company, details are slowly emerging on why the Indian ex-se...