New Delhi: Indian Navy officer Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar has assumed charge as Director General Naval Operations today, on June 7.An alumnus of the National Defense Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, he was commissioned into the Indian Navy in January ...
New Delhi: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Friday took two major decisions, including the approval for the RFP for construction of six submarines at approx cost of Rs 43,000 crore and purchase of air defence guns for the armed forces worth Rs 6,...
The flags (L to R) of the US, Japan, India and Australia – the four members of the Quad.There is doubt among certain sections regarding the relevance of the quasi-security alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia, which is...
New Delhi: Indian Navy has seen a major changes at top slots with appointment of Vice Admiral Ravneet Singh as the deputy chief of Indian Naval staff while Vice Admiral Kiran Deshmukh assuming charge as the Controller Warship Production and Acquisiti...
Tel Aviv: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) recently signed a $200 USD million contract to provide unmanned aerial systems (UAS) services to India, relating to IAI’s Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).This is the fourth major UAS transaction t...
Vizag: Rear Admiral IB Uthaiah took over as the Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam from Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair during a formal ceremony held on May 31.Rear Admiral IB Uthaiah was commissioned into the Indian Navy in November 1...
New Delhi: In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has commissioned Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) Sajag constructed by Goa shipyard limited through d...
As multiple commercial vessels raised distress calls in the wake of Cyclone Tauktae lately, which ravaged the Western coast of India and finally made landfall on the Gujarat coast last Monday, the Indian Navy which was already standby to provide help...
New Delhi: In the wake of Cyclone Yaas, which is expected to make landfall on the West Bengal and Odisha Coast on May 26, the Indian Air Force has put its assets on alert mode as part of its HADR task preparedness.“The IAF has kept 1 C-17, 1 IL...
Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...