Lucknow: In a landmark development for India's indigenous defence manufacturing ambitions, state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has been allocated 75 hectares of land at the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor’s (UPDIC) Chitra...
CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...
Taragiri during its sea trials. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission its latest stealth frigate, F41, on April 3 in a ceremony to be presided over by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh. The frigate will be christened I...
Two commandos of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA special operations unit during jungle-warfare training. (Photo for representation.)“The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha, for then, on that day, you will have los...
A unit of the Indian Army’s Akashteer air-defence system. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Navy have separately issued requests for information on drone systems – one to acquire high-speed aerial t...