Prithvi II during a test.New Delhi: India carried out a successful training launch of Prithvi II short-range ballistic missile, on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. The missile was fired from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Odisha coa...
An Indian Air Force B-24 Liberator. This is the story of the Indian Air Force’s first heavy bomber and the indigenous “jugaad” (ingenuity) that helped the service develop this capability, as told by the force itself on social m...
Rajnath Singh near the lighthouse at Indira Point, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (Photo: Defence ministry)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited Indira Point – the country’s southernmost top, on Friday. This visit took pla...
Representative image.On May 9, 2022, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) was fired at the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali. The attack followed the arrest of four suspected terrorists at Karnal in Haryana with improvised explosive devic...
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and immortalized himself in the 1962 India-China war.Yog Raj Palta was bo...
Pralay during a test-firing. (Photo: Defence ministry)New Delhi: The defence ministry has given its go-ahead for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army to procure 120 “Pralay” short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, vari...
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity (AoN) to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon syste...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...
Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon drone at Airshow China Zhuhai 2022. (Creative Commons photo)New Delhi: China is reported to have carried out a big drill involving its hi-tech drones inside their side of the line of actual control near Arunachal Pradesh. ...
File picNew Delhi: Amid fresh spike in border tension with China at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Air Force commenced a two-day major exercise on Thursday in northeastern region of the country, with involving all its frontline platforms, i...