A comprehensive annual maintenance contract for the S-400 long-range air-defence missile system also received approval.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence’s Defence Acquisition Council has approved a comprehensive military modernization package ...
Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan taking salute from a ceremonial guard of honour after assuming charge as FOC-in-C, Western Naval Command. (Photo: Indian Navy)Mumbai: Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan took charge as the new flag officer commanding-in-...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, a gunnery and missile systems specialist with extensive triservices experience, assumed charge as the vice-chief of naval staff in a ceremony at New Delhi, on ...
Pragya Thakur (R) and Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit.Mumbai/New Delhi: A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai acquitted all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, on Thursday. This puts an end to a 17-year legal saga tha...
The Indian Army vehicle that was struck by a falling boulder. (Photo via X) Udhampur/New Delhi: Two Indian Army personnel were killed and three others injured when a loose boulder struck their vehicle in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday morning. Amon...
An artist’s impression of the Nisar satellite orbiting Earth. (Image: Nasa) New Delhi: The groundbreaking Nisar (Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite mission successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Srihar...
Nimisha Priya.New Delhi: The fate of Nimisha Priya, a 38-year-old Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen, remains shrouded in uncertainty after conflicting claims about her sentence status created diplomatic confusion between Indian religious leaders and...
Pralay missile. Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) conducted two consecutive successful flight-tests of India’s first indigenously developed tactical quasi-ballistic missile – Pralay from Dr...
The Supreme Court of India. (File photo)With over a million personnel in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),...
Yarlung Tsangpo river’s “Great Bend” in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, close to India’s Arunachal Pradesh, where the megadam will be built. (Photo courtesy: China News Service)China’s audacious decision to constr...