The wreckage of the AN-32 that crashed near Jorhat. (Photo: X)New Delhi/Jorhat: Five Indian Air Force personnel died on Saturday morning when an An-32 twin-engine transport aircraft crashed near Jorhat in Assamduring what the force described as a rou...
Image captionNew Delhi: India could be looking at significant gains on two fronts of its strategic partnership with France – fighter jet technology and civil nuclear energy – as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, prepares for a week-long ...
New Delhi: The defence ministry is considering invoking contractual penalty clauses against state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) over its failure to deliver a single Tejas Mk1A fighter jet to the Indian Air Force (IAF), more than two years...
From left: Richard Marles, John Healey, and Pete Hegseth. (Photo via X/@DefenceHQ)New Delhi: The trilateral security arrangement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia (Aukus) has announced its most operationally substantive pac...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit. (Photo: IDS)New Delhi: The government has appointed Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit the next vice-chief of the air staff (VCAS) of the Indian Air Force, placing one of the service’s most experienced fighter pilots and sen...
Rafale fighter jet (Photo: IAF)New Delhi: Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh landed in France on Monday for a four-day visit as New Delhi formally triggered negotiations for 114 Rafale fighter jets – one of the largest defence ac...
Rajnath Singh and Richard Marles co-chair India-Australia Defence Ministers' Dialogue (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: India and Australia have agreed to negotiate a formal memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the supply of defence articles and services, a...
Admiral Krishna Swaminathan. New Delhi: Admiral Krishna Swaminathan took command on Sunday as the 27th chief of the naval staff. He now steps into the role at a time when the service is pushing hard on modernization and facing intensifying strat...
Gen NS Raja Subramani. (Photo: HQ IDS) New Delhi: General NS Raja Subramani, a former Indian Army commander, formally assumed charge as India’s third chief of defence staff (CDS) on Sunday, succeeding General Anil Chauhan, who retired afte...