Back in 2006 India decided to upgrade its 52(now 49) Mirage 2000 fighters, at a cost of $35 million each. The upgrade is still not complete and the cost has grown to $45 million per aircraft. Part of the delay was due to Indian insistence that most of the work be done in India. That meant Indian...
Eminent maritime historian and former flag
officer commanding-in-chief, Western Naval
Command, Vice Admiral MP Awati, said India
should give more importance to seaborne trade
without which the Indian Navy will have a
purposeless existence.
Inaugurating the third edition of the Annual
‘Dilli’...
With a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashing near Pune this week, Five Sukhois have crashed since 2009,
Taking to 394 planes of various types that have been lost by the IAF over the last 20 years.
While 151 IAF pilots have lost their lives during the last decade...
NEW DELHI — Indian Army officers and
defense analysts here criticized as irrational a
Defence Ministry decision to spend nearly as
much buying homemade 130mm Arjun
Catapult artillery systems as it would have on
advanced 155mm howitzers.
India is buying 40 of the Arjun Catapult
systems, which is...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has approved
two previously-stalled technology transfer
licences to India and in an unprecedented
move has set aside USD 20 million for
strategic cooperative science and technology
projects with New Delhi.
While the decision in this regard was made
just before Prime...
NEW DELHI: While much has been made of the US' decision to revoke PM Narendra Modi's visa in 2005, the issue did not figure at all in his discussions with President Barack Obama either over the dinner at White House or the bilateral meet between the two leaders next day. Official sources also...
NEW DELHI: It's raining UAVs in India. After years of delay, the government is set to issue at least half-a-dozen licences for manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to private players, although civilian use still remains a closed area.
Sources in the government told TOI that the...
By Hassan Sohail*
India’s BMD capability has evolved after many years of clandestine research and development. Since July 1983, Indian scientists have been engaged in fusing the foreign and domestic research and components for the development of the Theatre Missile Defence (TMD).
India’s...
By ABHISHEK SHANKER
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's infrastructure push has put a rocket under the shares of India's biggest maker of explosives.
Solar Industries India shares have rallied 171 per cent this year, more than double the gains of the best performer on the benchmark stock...
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. will provide the Indian Navy with hundreds of Barak-1 missiles over the next 18 months in a deal worth $143 million. India’s Ministry of Defense approved the procurement in recent days in part because naval commanders have warned of a grave shortage of such...
WASHINGTON: Targeting a five-fold jump in Indo-US trade to $500 billion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged to deepen economic cooperation and will set up a joint program to boost business investment.
After two days of talks focused on ways to...
NAGPUR: For a soldier posted in Siachen or other snow bound areas, keeping his feet warm is a privilege indeed. Since frost bite is as hostile as the enemy in such places, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) hopes to make life a little warmer for the troops with its latest...
WASHINGTON: The US today broadbased its strategic ties with India by pledging to back New Delhi's entry into elite nuclear clubs and as a permanent member of the reformed UN Security Council.
In a joint statement issued at the end of the five-day visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US...
Israel has reportedly invited India to participate in a joint effort on cyber-defense, a project that will aim to be a link between civilian and military authorities in both countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended the offer during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Mumbai. A bizarre incident of a ghost tagging himself in Facebook photos and 'Check Ins' of a Mumbai based techie, Michael Shrivastava, has come into light.
The ghost goes by the name of Deepak Chopra (not to be confused with public speaker Deepak Chopra) has power to tag himself in any photo...
Islamabad. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's and former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's son Bilawal Bhutto got beaten up by his own classmates in his school after he tried to steal one of his classmates' brand new pencil.
The incident took place in a pre-school named...