A unit of the Indian Army’s Akashteer air-defence system. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Navy have separately issued requests for information on drone systems – one to acquire high-speed aerial t...
An IAF Tejas. (File photo)New Delhi: Earlier this month, on the morning of February 7, a Tejas-Mk1 single-seat fighter of the Indian Air Force came to grief at a forward base along the country’s western front. The aircraft – returning fro...
An IAF Tejas fighter. (File photo for representation)New Delhi: In a bid to break the prolonged deadlock over the Tejas-Mk1A programme, the Indian Air Force and the Ministry of Defence have worked out a set of limited concessions for HAL, allowi...
Anil Kumar Rai.New Delhi: The five-day India-led AI Impact Summit, held at New Delhi from February 16 to 20, 2026, has brought into sharp focus India’s aspiration to recast the terms of global artificial intelligence governance. Presenting Indi...
An Indian Air Force Rafale fighter carrying two Hammer precision weapons. (Photo via X)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, will co-chair the sixth India-France annual defence dialogue with France’s minister of the armed forces and v...
DRDO’s Ghatak stealth UAV. (Creative Commons photo for representation.)New Delhi: India is building its first runway designed exclusively for drones and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. This is seen as a move that ref...
Nikhil Gupta (C) after being extradited from Prague to New York. (Photo: US Drug Enforcement Administration)New Delhi: Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national who self-described as an international narcotics and weapons trafficker, has pleaded guilty in a N...