The state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has submitted its bid in response to the defence ministry’s tender for building three additional Kalvari-class submarines for the Indian Navy. Read More

India strongly rejected the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s call for the resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with UN security council resolutions. This development comes in the wake of the recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld the government’s 2019 move to abrogate the special status given to the erstwhile state. Read More

India seems to have changed its recent stand on the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and voted in favour of a United Nations general assembly resolution along with 153 other nations calling for a ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Ten countries voted against it while 23 abstained. Read More

The Defence Acquisition Council has given the go-ahead to the Indian Army to procure another 73,000 SIG Sauer’s SIG 716 assault rifles. This comes at a time when the manufacturing of AK-203 rifles, a part of the Army’s F-INSAS programme, under a Russia-India joint venture has been delayed. Read More

The Quadrilateral Dialogue or Quad summit, which India has reportedly proposed to be held on January 27 in New Delhi, has been postponed indefinitely, government sources said. Read More

Indian Army officer Captain Fatima Wasim became the third woman to be posted in Siachen Glacier. She is also the second woman medical officer to be posted at the world’s highest battlefield. However, she is the first woman doctor to be deployed at an operational post in the glacier. Read More

The Indian Navy has been grappling with shortage of personnel for a while now. However, the true extent of the shortage came to light when the government gave out the figures in response to a query in Parliament. Read More

Airbus Helicopters and Indamer Aviation have entered a partnership to provide cutting-edge maintenance services for helicopters in India. This move is seen as a significant boost to the MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) sector in the country. Read More

The military secretary’s office has issued a comprehensive promotion policy that will change the way how Indian Army officers of colonel and above ranks are promoted. Read More

The Qatar government allowed the Indian ambassador to the emirate to meet all the eight former Indian Navy sailors who have been sentenced to death by a Qatari court in October for purported espionage, India’s foreign ministry said. Read More