The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
The Agni-1 missile that was test-fired, on May 22, 2026.New Delhi: India successfully test-fired the Agni-1 (also spelled Agni I), a surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the coast of ...
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully completed the final development trials of the unmanned aerial vehicle-launched precision-guided missile (ULPGM)-V3, testing the weapon system in both air-to-ground a...
IAF chief ACM AP Singh in a Rafale simulator (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force is procuring a next-generation multi-domain combat simulation system called Agni – an acronym for air combat, ground planning and network integrated &ndash...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, the chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Photo: CAPSS)New Delhi: Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, the chief of Integrated Defence Staff has called for the immediate and urgent acceleration of the country's homegrown stea...
New Delhi: Bharat Forge Limited, the Pune-based engineering and defence conglomerate controlled by the Kalyani Group, has broken ground on a large-scale munitions manufacturing campus in Andhra Pradesh.The facility, being set up through Agneyastra En...
New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, will jointly inaugurate groundbreaking ceremonies for six projects on May 15, anchoring a renewed push to make the state a hub for mil...
Defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh at CII Annual Business Summit 2026 in Delhi (Photo: CII)New Delhi: India is moving to allow private companies to manufacture ballistic missiles, a domain long reserved for state-owned defence public sector underta...
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The government has appointed Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan as the next flag officer commanding in chief (FOC-in-C) of the Western Naval Command, headquartered in Mumbai. VAdm Vatsayan,...