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NEW DELHI: The country's most potent fighters, the Sukhoi-30MKIs, will fly in a 'Missing Man' formation down the majestic Rajpath on September 20 as part of the ongoing celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war with Pakistan. The 'Missing Man' formation is an aerial salute performed...

JAIPUR: Manufactured in the City, Blitzer - armoured anti-terrorist vehicle (ATV) will be deployed in Parliament to thwart attacks of terrorists on the building. The ATV would be sent to Delhi on Saturday. It would be handed over to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It would...

From Australia, Anzac class frigate, HMAS Arunta, oiler HMAS Sirius, and Collins class submarine HMAS Sheean entered the Visakhapatnam port VISAKHAPATNAM: India and Australia on Friday started the first bilateral exercise AUSINDEX here in a bid to boost ties between the two navies. From...

The service will be available to passengers for free and the first 30 minutes will have high speed after which the speed will be lowered. The Indian Railways has partnered with Google to provide Wi-Fi hotspots in over 400 railway stations across India. This partnership has been named Project...

I know we are enemies....but as they say, keep your enemies closer, so here's an Indian wishing HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to the people of Pakistan :pakistan:

Mohammad Salim,one of the accused of nun gangrape case being introduced to the Ranaghat Court by the CID officials, in Nadia on Thursday. (Source: PTI) Twelve days after an elderly nun was raped at a convent in Ranaghat in West Bengal’s Nadia district, the Criminal Investigation Department...

Ahmedabad: The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Friday apprehended 48 Indian fishermen and seized 8 of their boats near Jakhau port off the Gujarat coast, officials of National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) said. The Forum claimed that the Pakistani agency guards fired several rounds in the...

New Delhi: With barely a week to go before Barack Obama and Narendra Modi meet for the first time, Americans are discovering that the new Prime Minister is no pushover. As inter-agency meetings to give concrete shape to an imponderable Indo-US summit began within the Obama administration last...

Hi all, The 17th Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea, started on 19th of September and will continue for two weeks till 4 October 2014. This thread is to discuss Indian acheivments in the games. A total of 515 Indian athelets are participating in 28 sports this year. Details- India at the...

Aug. 26: The Indian Navy is working to revive a World War II airbase that was the British Royal Air Force’s (RAF) largest after Lahore in South Asia. Bobbili, just north of Visakhapatnam, is part of a larger expansion plan of the navy that includes opening a base for conventional and nuclear...

New Delhi: Former diplomat Arvind Gupta was Monday appointed deputy national security adviser in place of former police officer Nehchal Sandhu, who had resigned last week. Gupta, a 1979 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, will also be secretary, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS). An...

Delhi, Aug. 5: India is preparing to join the influential Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) strategic grouping, currently led by China and Russia, just days ahead of the Prime Minister’s September visit to the US where his bonhomie with Moscow has already triggered unease. The SCO has...

Pakistan on Sunday released 59 Indian prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi, officials said. The Indian prisoners, mostly fishermen, were freed from a jail in the...

25 capital warships commissioned since 1997, such as INS Shivalik, lack towed array sonars essential in the shallow Arabian Sea waters By Ajai Shukla Business Standard, 16th May 14 At the start of this year, INS Vikramaditya, the navy’s brand new aircraft carrier, sailed into the Arabian Sea...

Admiral DK Joshi's resignation as navy chief after taking "moral responsibility" for the February 26 INS Sindhuratna mishap which claimed the lives of two officers was a farce. A day after he quit, Joshi realised he would not be eligible for post-service benefits like pension and gratuity and...

New Delhi, March 6: India has said Russia holds “legitimate interests” in Ukraine, becoming the first major nation appearing to publicly lean towards Moscow at a time it is largely isolated internationally over its military intervention in the Crimean Peninsula. India’s first official response...

The armies of Nepal and India are holding a joint military exercise named ‘Surya Kiran VI’ at the Integrated Army Training Centre (IATC) at Saljhandi in Rupanddehi district of southern Nepal. According to the Nepal Army Directorate of Public Relations (DPR), an infantry battalion of each...

The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) is expected to announce the final launch date of the second spacecraft in the series of seven satellites that will form the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) next week. According to Isro officials, the satellite, IRNSS 1-B, has...

Even as the defence authorities are tight-lipped on the reasons of the failure of surface-to-surface medium range ballistic missile Agni-I night trial, sources attributed it to metallurgical malfunction and snags in the hydraulic system. Sources said after an abortive mission on February 18...