Indian Navy’s Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft P8I participated in the Multinational Maritime Exercise Kakadu 2022 hosted by Royal Australian Navy in Darwin from September 12-25, along with INS Satpura. Read More

DRDO conducted two successful test flight of Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missile on Tuesday from a ground based portable launcher at the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha. Read More

Military Nursing Service is rendering exemplary service to troops and their families in hospitals located in peace and field stations in India as well as at United Nations peace keeping Missions abroad, said Lt Gen Ashok Jindal, Commandant, Army Hospital (RR) today. Read More

Upon completion of his visit to Mongolia, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has reached Tokyo on a three-day official visit to participate in second India--Japan 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on September 8. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will also join him. Read More

INS Satpura visited Suva, Fiji from September 1-3 as part of its Operational Deployment in the Pacific Ocean. Read More

India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier (IAC-1) was commissioned in the Indian Navy as Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant. The prime minister, Narendra Modi, commissioned the warship at Cochin Shipyard Limited. Read More

The prime minister, Narendra Modi, unveiled the new ensign for the Indian Navy just before the commissioning ceremony of India’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, on Friday. The new design is seen as a bid to junk India’s “colonial past” and Indianize it. Read More

A multilateral strategic command and staff exercise — Vostok 2022 has begun on Thursday at the training grounds of the Eastern Military District of Russia. Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a new flag for the Indian Navy at Kochi during the commissioning of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier IAC-1 as INS Vikrant, on September 2. This is the fourth flag design the Navy would have since India became a republic on January 26, 1950. Read More

Germany’s ambassador to India Philipp Ackermann termed China’s claim of Arunachal Pradesh as its own territory as “outrageous”. Reacting to it, the Chinese embassy in New Delhi said Ackermann’s “irresponsible remarks went too far”. Read More