PNS Hangor makes port call in Malaysia (Photo: Malaysian Navy)In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank estimated that Pakistan’s poverty rate had reached 40.5 per cent, measured at $3.65 per person per day in 2017 purchasing power parity terms, with...
Representatives from SMPP (L) and KNDS shake hands after signing the partnership agreement. (Photo: SMPP)New Delhi: Indian defence manufacturer SMPP and the pan-European land-defence group KNDS signed a teaming agreement on Wednesday to jointly manuf...
Simha 4x4 is built around Nato-qualified aggregates. (Photo: Bharat Forge)New Delhi: Private sector firm Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited (KSSL) and the global defence company Paramount jointly unveiled the Simha 4x4, a light armoured multi-pur...
Representational imageMajor military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospecti...
MT Liaki Freedom. (Yvon Perchoc photo via Shipspotting.com)New Delhi: A suspected US missile strike on the Marshall Islands-flagged oil and chemical tanker MT Liaki Freedom late on Friday night killed four Indian crew members, according to a person w...
The Strait of Hormuz chokepoint.New Delhi has renewed its demand for safe and unimpeded merchant shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, after a third vessel carrying Indian crew came under attack within a week, taking the toll of Indian seafarer deat...
Image captionNew Delhi: India could be looking at significant gains on two fronts of its strategic partnership with France – fighter jet technology and civil nuclear energy – as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, prepares for a week-long ...
L&T-built K9 Vajra howitzer. (File photo) New Delhi: The Indian Army is preparing to make one of its biggest artillery acquisitions in recent memory, moving a proposal to procure more than 300 additional K9 Vajra self-propelled ho...
Tony Walton (Photo: BAE Systems)New Delhi: The global defence, aerospace and security company – BAE Systems, has appointed Tony Walton as the managing director for India, effective immediately.Based in New Delhi, Tony will oversee the company&r...