The prime minister, Narendra Modi, met the president of Guyana, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, on the sidelines of 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Indore, on Monday. Irfaan Ali is on an official visit to India from January 8 to January 14. He is the chief guest of the 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, chaired a roundtable conference with foreign envoys for the forthcoming Aero India. Ambassadors, high commissioners, chargé d’affaires and defence attachés of over 80 countries attended. Read More

The Indian Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force are all set to hold a two-week joint air drill – “Exercise Veer Guardian – 2023” – at Japan’s Hyakuri airbase, the IAF said. The exercise will start from January 12 and end on January 26. Read More

In a breakthrough against the transborder narcotics-smuggling network in Punjab, the Border Security Force and Fazilka Police, in a joint operation, seized 31.02 kilograms of heroin and arrested two kingpins of a cartel engaged in drug trafficking. Read More

This is the story of the Indian Air Force’s first heavy bomber and the indigenous “jugaad” (ingenuity) that helped the service develop this capability, as told by the force itself on social media. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited Indira Point – the country’s southernmost top, on Friday. This visit took place on the final day of his two-day visit to the strategically important Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Read More

Defence minister Rajnath Singh dedicated to the nation 28 infrastructure projects of Border Roads Organisation (BRO), worth Rs 724 crore, during an event organised at Siyom Bridge on Along-Yinkiong Road in Arunachal Pradesh on January 3. Read More

Indian Army officer Captain Shiva Chouhan created history by becoming the first Indian Army woman officer to be operationally posted to the Kumar Post, situated at an altitude of 15,632 feet in the Siachen Glacier – the world’s highest battlefield. Read More

An expedition of the team of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has become the first of its kind expedition to not just travel all the seven states of India’s Northeast (NE) but has set the record of being the first to touch the highest point of each state of the region. Read More

The Indian Air Force said it has successfully test-fired the longer-ranged version of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile against a ship target from a Sukhoi-30MKI aircraft. Read More