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-...
Army contingents marching during Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representational photo)The 2014 general election was unique in many ways. The world, perhaps for the first time, witnessed expenditure on a poll campaign on such a massive scale, esp...
C295 aircraft to be made in GujaratBengaluru: Spanish aerospace company Airbus will display scale models of the new-generation tanker A330 MRTT as well as the C295 military aircraft during the Aero India 2023 in Bengaluru to be held from Februar...
LCA Navy onboard INS Vikrant Kochi: In a major milestone which is sure to boost self-reliance in the defence manufacturing, indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant witnessed successful landing onboard by HAL-built LCA (Navy).In a st...
The HAL helicopter factory at Tumakuru. (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, will inaugurate a helicopter factory at Tumakuru, Karnataka, on February 6, just ahead of Aero India – 2023. The state-run plane-maker Hind...
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...
Air Marshal PM SinhaUdhampur: Western Air Command AOC-in-C Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha reviewed the prevalent security situation and operational preparedness of the formation along the northern borders.While interacting with the senior officials, ...
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...
Air Marshal AP SinghNew Delhi: Indian Air Force officer Marshal AP Singh took over as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) on February 1.On the occasion, he laid a wreath at the National War Memorial to honour those Armed Forces personnel who have ...
RAdm IB Uthaiah and RAdm Bimal KumarNew Delhi: Indian Navy officer Rear Admiral IB Uthaiah took over as the director general of the Warship Design Bureau from Rear Admiral Bimal Kumar, on February 1, in New Delhi.Commissioned into the Navy in Novembe...