Air Marshal AP Singh assumed the appointment of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) Central Air Command (CAC) on July 1. Read More

Indian Navy’s INS Kochi paid a visit to Port Safaga in Egypt from June 28-30 and also participated in a maritime partnership exercise with the Egyptian Navy ships. Read More

As part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance, India supplied the seventh batch of medical assistance today, consisting of 6 tons of essential medicines to Afghanistan. Read More

With an objective to ensure smooth processing of monthly pension, the defence minister has urged the defence pensioners to complete their annual identification or life certification immediately. Read More

A total of eight people, including armymen were killed and over 50 are missing after a massive landslide struck the 107 Territorial Army (TA) camp in Noney district of Manipur early Thursday. Read More

An indigenously developed laser-guided anti-tank missile (ATGM) was successfully test-fired from main battle tank (MBT) Arjun by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Army at KK Ranges with support of Armoured Corps Centre & School (ACC&S) Ahmednagar on June 28. Read More

Aiming to double the trade and investment between two countries by end of the decade, India and the United Kingdom have fast-tracked their negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and will hold their fifth round of talks in July. Read More

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Malaysian counterpart YB Dato 'Seri HishammuddinTun Hussein discussed ways to enhance the defence ties on June 27. The two ministers held their meeting on video conferencing. Read More

In this op-ed, Shishu Ranjan assails the #Agnipath recruitment scheme and discusses the ramifications it will have on our national security and society. He said, “We maintain defence forces for our national security and expenditure on such maintenance can’t be left to half-baked policies on the name of reforms.” Read More

In his second article on the Agnipath scheme, Col Dinesh Kumar (R) says the government must come clean on pushing through it. He also raises several questions on the scheme and the fate of those Agniveers released after four years. Read More