Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari has been appointed the next general officer commanding in chief of the key Eastern Army Command. He will replace the incumbent Eastern Army GOC-in-C Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who retires on December 31. Read More

India’s air-defence capabilities achieved a groundbreaking feat, in which a single Akash missile system successfully engaged four unmanned aerial targets simultaneously. The drill in which the feat was during Exercise Astrashakti 2023, conducted earlier this month, the DRDO said. Read More

The chief of Army staff, General Manoj Pande, delivered a keynote address at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, on Saturday. In his broad speech, he painted a compelling picture of how national security and economic progress walk hand-in-hand in shaping a nation’s rise. Read More

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, who arrived in the national capital on a three-day visit to India, was accorded a warm reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Droupadi Murmu. Later, Sultan Haitham held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read More

Five Indian-American members of the United States Congress issued a joint statement after being briefed by the Biden administration with classified information on an Indian citizen’s involvement in an alleged assassination plot of a Canadian-American Khalistani activist. Read More

The Indian Navy said its “mission deployed” platforms responded to a distress call sent by a Malta-flagged vessel, MV Ruen, in the Arabian Sea. The Navy, suspecting a piracy attempt, said it diverted a maritime patrol aircraft and a warship on anti-piracy patrol in the region towards the ship. Read More

The Defence Research and Development Organization has successfully conducted a test-flight of an indigenously built high-speed and stealth autonomous flying-wing technology demonstrator. Read More

Indian Navy’s corvette INS Kadmatt INS Kadmatt, which is currently on a long-range operational deployment in the West Philippine Sea, undertook a maritime partnership exercise with BRP Ramon Alcaraz of the Philippine Navy in the disputed South China Sea. Read More

The defence ministry signed a long-term contract with the state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited for the procurement of electronic fuzes for the Indian Army’s indigenously made artillery ammunition. Read More

Lockheed Martin said it has delivered the sixth MH-60R “Romeo” helicopter to the Indian Navy. The US-based defence behemoth also said it expects to complete the delivery of all the MH-60R choppers that India ordered by 2025. Read More