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South Korean president Lee greets Modi on 25 years in office

South Korean president Lee Jae-myung congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 years in government, while leaders from Japan, Nigeria, Belgium and other countries also sent greetings. Read More

GE Aerospace ships four more F404 engines to HAL for Tejas-Mk1A

GE Aerospace ships 4 more F404 engines to HAL

GE Aerospace has shipped four more F404-IN20 engines to HAL, lifting total supplies to 14 as Tejas-Mk1A production tries to catch up. Read More

DRDO conducts first live jump of high-altitude parachute system at Nyoma

DRDO tests high-altitude parachute at Nyoma

DRDO has conducted the first live jump of its Advanced High-Altitude Parachute at Nyoma, testing a static line system built for paratroopers at altitudes up to 18,000 feet. Read More

DRDO's HAPS: India tests indigenous high-altitude airship that could fill the gap between drones and satellites

DRDO airship hits 21 km in HAPS trial

DRDO’s indigenous High-Altitude Platform airship has reached 21 km and held altitude for over 30 minutes, a step up from its 17 km debut in May 2025. Read More

Who is Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit?

The government has named Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, a fighter and test pilot, as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff from October 31, 2026. Read More

HSL launches first fleet support ship

Hindustan Shipyard launched FSS-1, the first of five Fleet Support Ships for the Navy, and laid the keel of FSS-5 at Visakhapatnam in the presence of Rajnath Singh. Read More

MV Royad Mammadov: What we know about the cargo ship that sank in Black Sea

MV Royad Mammadov sinks in Black Sea

The Indian embassy in Romania said all three Indian crew members of MV Royad Mammadov are safe, though one is injured, after the cargo ship caught fire and sank in the Black Sea. Read More

Finland pitches Nokia-ICEYE satellite technology for India’s defence, security needs

Finland pitches Nokia-ICEYE sat tech for India

Finland’s new envoy to India has cited the Nokia-ICEYE sovereign satellite communication partnership as proof of what Helsinki can offer New Delhi in defence, alongside a push to expand trade under the India-EU FTA. Read More

IIT Roorkee, India Optel Limited sign MoU to boost indigenous defence research

IIT Roorkee, IOL sign MoU to boost defence research

IIT Roorkee and India Optel Limited have signed an MoU to collaborate on defence research, indigenization, training and industry-academia engagement. Read More

Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu inaugurates AKSI Aerospace’s Agni Kalash combat drone at Vijayawada

Naidu inaugurates AKSI’s Agni Kalash combat drone

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated AKSI Aerospace's Agni Kalash, an indigenous long-range combat drone, at the PanIIT Andhra Pradesh Summit 2026 in Vijayawada. Read More