The deal, valued at approximately ₹6,000 crores and involves the delivery of Akash supersonic surface-to-air missile system, has upset Armenia’s archenemy, Azerbaijan, which has warned that it may destabilize the south Caucasus. Read More

The Border Security Force is planning to raise a marine battalion, a drone squadron and procure all-terrain vehicles for patrolling the Sundarbans to curb infiltration and smuggling in the mangrove delta that shares a long border with Bangladesh. Read More

Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited has delivered the 250th fuselage for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter manufactured in its state-of-the-art facility in Hyderabad. These fuselages are manufactured for customers around the world, including the Indian Army and the US Army. Read More

Ajay Kumar Yadav, the inspector general of the Central Reserve Police Force in Jammu & Kashmir’s Srinagar sector, said women personnel of the central armed police force are deployed in various operational roles in the Kashmir valley and providing excellent support to the force. Read More

In what has come as a surprise to many, former chief of Army staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane said neither of the three services were consulted before the government rolled out the Agnipath recruitment scheme. The ex-COAS also discusses the difficult time during the 2020 Galwan valley clash Read More

This comes at a time when the Houthi rebels in Yemen banned on all Israel-linked ships sailing in the Red Sea and Somali pirates hijacked a cargo ship near the Gulf of Aden. Read More

Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari has been appointed the next general officer commanding in chief of the key Eastern Army Command. He will replace the incumbent Eastern Army GOC-in-C Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who retires on December 31. Read More

India’s air-defence capabilities achieved a groundbreaking feat, in which a single Akash missile system successfully engaged four unmanned aerial targets simultaneously. The drill in which the feat was during Exercise Astrashakti 2023, conducted earlier this month, the DRDO said. Read More

The chief of Army staff, General Manoj Pande, delivered a keynote address at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, on Saturday. In his broad speech, he painted a compelling picture of how national security and economic progress walk hand-in-hand in shaping a nation’s rise. Read More

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, who arrived in the national capital on a three-day visit to India, was accorded a warm reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Droupadi Murmu. Later, Sultan Haitham held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read More