New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission two more indigenously built warships – INS Mahendragiri and INS Malvan – next month, pressing ahead with the fastest sustained fleet expansion in its recent history.The stealth frigate ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian Navy Chief Admiral K Swaminathan (L) during commissioning of three vessels (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi/Kolkata: In only the second such ceremony in recent years, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Sunday c...
Vaishali district magistrate Varsha Singh (Photo: special arrangement)Vaishali district magistrate Varsha Singh has launched an initiative that brings career counseling and mentorship directly to students in rural Bihar, many of whom have big aspirat...
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...
LRLACM during its test-flight from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha’s coast. (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: India on Monday moved a step closer to fielding a homegrown long-range cruise missile after the Defence Research and Development Organisati...
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...
President Droupadi Murmu with first batch of women officers trained at NDA (Photo: MoD)Dehradun/Dundigal/New Delhi: India commissioned its first batch of women officers trained at the National Defence Academy into the Indian Army and the Indian Air F...
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...