A French Rafale (M) landing in US aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush. (Photo: US Navy)New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council has granted the “acceptance of necessity” to the Indian Navy to purchase 26 Rafale ...
A French navy Rafale (M). (File photo)New Delhi: India may sign deals worth around ₹90,000 crore with France soon. The deals include 26 Rafale (Marine) or Rafale (M) warplanes and three additional Scorpene (Kalvari-class) submarines for the Ind...
Indian Army soldiers rehearsing in New Delhi before leaving for Paris to take part in France’s Bastille Day parade. (Photo by special arrangement.) New Delhi: An Indian contingent comprising 269 personnel from the triservices left for Pari...
Giridhar Armane. (File photo)New Delhi: The defence secretary, Giridhar Aramane, embarked on a two-day official visit to Myanmar, on Friday. During his visit, he called on the country’s leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who is the chairman...
New Delhi: Indian Navy and French Navy conducted a maritime partnership exercise in the Bay of Bengal off the Visakhapatnam, on Friday. From the Indian Navy side, INS Rana, a guided missile destroyer, and INS Sumedha, an indigenously built offshore p...
New Delhi: India and the United States inched closer to an agreement where an US company will set up a base in India to manufacture jet engines together with an Indian company. Moving towards this during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first sta...
Narendra Modi being greeted by Indian Americans after his arrival at New York City, on June 20, 2023. (Photo: PMO India)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, landed in New York City, on Tuesday, for his maiden state visit in the United States...
INS Kirpan. (Photo via Twitter/@AdithyaKM_) New Delhi: India has gifted INS Kirpan, an indigenously built missile corvette, which was in service with the Indian Navy until now, to Vietnam. The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, announced this afte...
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...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit on Tejas Trainer-01 at National Flight Test Centre, Bengaluru, on June 15, 2023. (Photo by special arrangement.)New Delhi: The deputy chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, visited the National Flight Te...