New Delhi: Global military expenditure reached an unprecedented high of $2.72 trillion in 2024, marking the 10th consecutive year of increase and the steepest year-on-year rise since 1988, according to a new report[pdf] by the Stockholm Internat...
A French Navy Rafale (Marine). (Photo: French Navy)New Delhi: India and France on Monday signed an inter-governmental agreement worth ₹63,000 crore (approximately $7.4 billion) to procure 26 Rafale (Marine) fighter jets, marking a significant u...
The scramjet engine being tested at the DRDL’s Scramjet Connect Test Facility. (Photo: DRDO)New Delhi: The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based facility of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DR...
Pope Francis (December 17, 1936 – April 21, 2025)New Delhi: Pope Francis, the bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.4 billion global followers, passed away on Easter Monday. He was 88. The Vatican confirmed his death ...
BrahMos missiles during a Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (File photo)New Delhi: India has shipped the second of the three batteries of the BrahMos cruise missile system to the Philippines – the first international customer of the supers...
India Sentinels illustration for representation.New Delhi: Ukraine has emerged as the world’s largest importer of arms, according to the latest report [pdf] from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri). The surge in arms im...
Air-defence warriors fire Osa-AK missile at Gopalpur (Photo: Southern Army Command) New Delhi: Indian Army has conducted a live missile firing exercise at the Gopalpur Seawards Firing Ranges in Odisha, involving the firing of the 9K33 Osa-A...
Sukhoi fighters to participate in INICHOS 2025 New Delhi: The multinational air wargame Inichos 2025, being hosted by the Hellenic Air Force, has begun at Andravida airbase in Greece from March 31, wherein Indian Air Force joined the exercise wi...
An Indian Navy officer (R) exchanges notes of Exercise INDRA with a Russian naval officer in Chennai, on March 28, 2025. (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: The 14th edition of the India-Russia bilateral naval drills, Exercise INDRA, started in the ...
An Indian Air Force Tejas light combat aircraft from No. 18 Squadron. (Photo: MoD)New Delhi: State-owned aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has received the first F404-IN20 engine from the United States’s engine manufacture GE Aerospa...