The government has approved the “acceptance of necessity” for three capital acquisition proposals – two for the Indian Army and one for the Indian Navy, on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, chaired a roundtable conference with foreign envoys for the forthcoming Aero India. Ambassadors, high commissioners, chargé d’affaires and defence attachés of over 80 countries attended. Read More

The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited Indira Point – the country’s southernmost top, on Friday. This visit took place on the final day of his two-day visit to the strategically important Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Read More

Defence minister Rajnath Singh dedicated to the nation 28 infrastructure projects of Border Roads Organisation (BRO), worth Rs 724 crore, during an event organised at Siyom Bridge on Along-Yinkiong Road in Arunachal Pradesh on January 3. Read More

An expedition of the team of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has become the first of its kind expedition to not just travel all the seven states of India’s Northeast (NE) but has set the record of being the first to touch the highest point of each state of the region. Read More

The defence ministry has given its go-ahead for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army to procure 120 “Pralay” short-range surface-to-surface conventional ballistic missiles and deploy them against China and Pakistan. Read More

The Union Cabinet headed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has approved the revision of pension armed forces’ pensioners/their family pensioners under “one rank, one pension” (OROP), the government said in a media release, on Friday. Read More

The additional director general of Border Roads Organization (East), PKH Singh, inspected the progress made in the construction of the strategic Se-la tunnel near the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh. It is expected to be completed in April 2023. Read More

The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon systems, and platforms for the three services and the Coast Guard. Read More

The Indian Army’s Mahar Regiment and the Indian Air Force’s No. 8 Squadron entered an inter-services affiliation with each other, on Monday, at a ceremony at the Air Force station in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Read More