New Delhi: India’s indigenous defence production hit an all-time high of ₹1.78 lakh crore in the financial year ending March 2026, the Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday, marking a 15.6 per cent rise over the previous year's &...
Pralay missile on Kartavya Path during Republic Day celebration. (Photo: X) New Delhi: In a structural shift with far-reaching consequences for India’s defence industry, the Ministry of Defence has thrown open the production of indigenous ...
New Delhi: The government has appointed Meetu Agarwal, a 2010-batch Indian Revenue Service (IT cadre) officer, as Director in the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence, headquartered in New Delhi.The appointment, formali...
New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, will jointly inaugurate groundbreaking ceremonies for six projects on May 15, anchoring a renewed push to make the state a hub for mil...
Defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh at CII Annual Business Summit 2026 in Delhi (Photo: CII)New Delhi: India is moving to allow private companies to manufacture ballistic missiles, a domain long reserved for state-owned defence public sector underta...
Chennai: A Chennai-based drone manufacturer, ZUPPA Geo Navigation Technologies, has supplied over 500 indigenously built unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian Army over the past three months. The company described it as a milestone for domestically ...
New Delhi: India's defence exports have touched an all-time high of ₹38,424 crore in FY 2025–26, surpassing last year's figure of ₹23,622 crore by a record margin of ₹14,802 crore -- a 62.66% rise that signals the coun...
By Manish AnandNew Delhi: Atmanirbhar Bharat has been hailed as a mainstay of India’s defence sector indigenisation. The slogan sits at the centre stage of Indian dream to break into the league of defence goods exporting nations. But the slogan...
An IAF Tejas. (File photo)New Delhi: Earlier this month, on the morning of February 7, a Tejas-Mk1 single-seat fighter of the Indian Air Force came to grief at a forward base along the country’s western front. The aircraft – returning fro...