The navies of India and Indonesia culminated their 4th edition of the bilateral Exercise Samudra Shakti-23 in the South China Sea, amidst ongoing China’s belligerent behaviour in the region. Read More

Indian Navy’s versatile chopper MH-60R “Romeo” conducted maiden landings on the indigenously designed and constructed destroyer, INS Kolkata that will bolster the force’s capability to counter underwater threats, monitor naval activities and conduct surveillance operations. Read More

Manipur has witnessed a significant reduction in the ethnic violence between the Meitei people and other tribal groups in the state in the last few days. The situation was largely brought under control due to the efforts of the Indian Army and the paramilitary forces, especially the Assam Rifles. Read More

A large Chinese deep-sea fishing boat capsized in the Indian Ocean, some 900 nautical miles from India’s territorial waters, on Tuesday. China’s transport ministry has confirmed that two crew members have been killed in the incident and 39 are missing. Read More

The sixth Scorpene submarine of Project-75 commenced her sea trials on May 18. The Kalvari-class submarine, named Vagsheer, was launched in April 2022 from the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited. Read More

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed an espionage case against Vivek Raghuvanshi – a freelance journalist who mostly covers defence-related stories, sources in the investigating agency told reporters. Read More

Pakistan has been beefing up its infrastructure in the disputed Sir Creek region near the international border in Gujarat, according to at least two news reports this week. This comes at a time when India ceased its own infrastructure-building activities in its own territory after Islamabad raised objections. Read More

The Centre has given its approval to include 928 key defence equipment-related components in the 4th positive indigenization list. On Sunday, the defence ministry gave the go-ahead for these strategically important line replacement units, subsystems, spares, and components, which were imported until now. Read More

INS Mormugao, the latest guided-missile destroyer, successfully hit the “bull’s eye” during her maiden BrahMos supersonic cruise missile firing, on Sunday. Read More

In this article, military historian Sandeep Mukherjee tries to debunk some of the myths surrounding what led to the 1962 India-China war debacle. He says the legacy of mythmaking by even scholars over India’s 1962 defeat has not ceased and highlights a Claude Arpi article as a case study. Please have a look. Read More