New Delhi: Giving an impetus to the “Atmanirbhar Bharat” initiative, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh-headed Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has given preliminary nod for nine capital acquisition proposals of around Rs 45,000 crore, ...
New Delhi: Global defence firm BAE Systems Inc and Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) have inked an agreement to bring the world-leading Articulated All-Terrain Vehicle (AATV), the BvS10, for the Indian Army.Under the agreement, L&T is the pri...
Seville: Airbus Defence and Space has officially handed over in fly-away condition the first of 56 C295 aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) to begin replacing its ageing Avros-748 fleet.The C295, in transport configuration and with an indige...
PM Narendra Modi (R) with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni (L)New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held bilateral meeting with his counterpart from the United Kingdom, Japan and Italy, Rishi Sunak, Fumio Kishido and Giorgia Meloni, respective...
Joe Biden (L) and Narendra Modi in New Delhi. (Photo courtesy: POTUS/X)New Delhi: The president of the United States, Joe Biden, reached the national capital to attend the Group of Twenty, or G20, summit, on Friday. After arriving in the city, t...
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Rajnath Singh defers his Sri Lanka visitNew Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who was scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on Saturday, had to defer his visit to later date.Citing unavoidable circumstances for the development, the defence ministry s...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on a visit to Sri Lanka on September 02 & 03.During his two days visit, Singh will hold talks with President & Defence Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickreme...
Xi Jinping (L) and Narendra Modi (R) during their brief interaction at the BRICS summit in South Africa. Also seen is the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa (C). (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, may skip at...
Map of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Aksai Chin is shown in red, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in green. (Map not to scale.)New Delhi: China is building tunnels and bunkers just 70 kilometres from the line of actual control in Aksai Chin, at least two ...