An NDRF rescue-and-relief team before boarding an IAF plane for Turkey. (Photo: Foreign ministry/Twitter)New Delhi: India has ramped up its aid-and-rescue mission to Syria and Turkey, which were hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake with multiple follow-...
The LCA’s naval prototype landing on INS Vikrant. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: For the first time since its commissioning in September 2022, Indian Navy’s indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant saw two fighter jets landin...
Bengaluru: With an objective to boost India’s defence manufacturing capabilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the HAL helicopter factory at Tumakuru in Karnataka.Tumakuru helicopter facility is a new greenfield helicopter...
Lt Gen VG Khandare (R) and Lt Gen Upendra DwivediUdhampur: National security cannot be confined to the use of the state’s coercive power to overcome domestic and external threats, advisor in the defence ministry Lt Gen VG Khandare (Retired) sai...
New Delhi: This year, the government has increased the defence budget to Rs 5.94 lakh crore from last year's allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore in the Union Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is a...
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, before presenting the Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, allocated ₹5.94 lakh crore for the defence sector while announcing the Union Bu...
Admiral R Hari Kumar and others during the commissioning of INS Vagir. (Photo: Indian Navy) Mumbai: Vagir, the fifth of the Kalvari-class Scorpene submarines, was commissioned into the Indian Navy at a ceremony at the naval dockyard here, on Mon...
Narendra Modi.New Delhi: A two-part BBC documentary titled “India: The Modi Question” on the “tensions” between the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the country’s Muslims, which also includes a claim that the United Ki...
Vagir during its sea trials. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The Indian Navy will commission the fifth Kalvari class submarine “Vagir” on January 23, 2023, the service said in a release, on Thursday. The Navy chief, Admiral Radhakris...
New Delhi: The government has planned this year’s main Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi differently than the previous editions. From the beginning to the end of the celebrations, things appear to have been significantly altered.Parak...