HAL's Dhruv chopper in operation at Mauritius reef Bengaluru: State-owned plane maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) indigenous advanced light helicopter Dhruv and Chetak have been pressed into service to rescue people and...
Jaishankar participating in 13th session of India-UAE Joint Commission New Delhi: India and UAE on Monday discussed regional issues pertaining to their neighbourhood and cooperation at the United Nations and other multilateral forums.The two countrie...
Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakpal (retired), seated in wheelchair.New Delhi: Defying the given perception that Covid-19 is deadly for elderly people, an 98-year-old war veteran from Mumbai has completely recovered from novel coronavirus.Sepoy Ramu Laxman Sakp...
New Delhi: After Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached a deal to normalise relations, India on Friday welcomed the announcement between the two countries.Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that India “h...
New Delhi: A total of 87 Indian Army personnel have been awarded with awards on the occasion of 74th Independence Day on August 15.Three army personnel will be conferred with the third highest peacetime gallantry award.Lt Col KS Rawat of Parachu...
The Indian Navy is the principal manifestation of India’s maritime influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In the last few months, since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the globe, the operations IOR have seen an expansion with Indian naval ships ...
Bengaluru: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday inaugurated the HAL-IISc Skill Development Centre (SDC) established at IISc’s Challakere campus in Chitradurga district of Karnataka through a video conference.Speaking on the occ...
An Indian Army T-72 tank high in the Himalayas. Last week, we had Brigadier RJS Dhillon taking us north in a sharp but shallow offensive through Depsang, SSN (subsector north) and the Karakoram Pass in order to gain a bargaining advantage with t...
A June satellite image showing Chinese military build-up in the Galwan valley. (Photograph: 2020 Planet Labs via Twitter)Since the 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a bloody clash with China’s People’s Liberation Arm...
New Delhi: Giving a fillip to India’s Atma Nirbhar Bharat initiative, the defence ministry will stop the import of 101 items "beyond given timeline" to boost indigenous production.This would mean that the domestic industry will receiv...