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NEW DELHI: The government is all set to roll out the process for a Rs 60,000-crore submarine programme, moving swiftly after unveiling a major policy for defence manufacturing in the country. The project is set to be the first one to be launched under the ambitious 'Strategic Partnership' (SP)...

The Indian Space Research Organisation's upcoming endeavours -- the GSAT-19 and the GSAT-11 satellites -- are potential game changers and can revolutionise communications by empowering a digital India and providing Internet services and streaming like never before. ISRO is undertaking a mega...

India is set to finalize a $660 million deal for mobile heavy artillery weapons -- its third major gun purchase in the past year and a sign Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s defense spending spree is far from over, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The deal, expected to be...

Nagrota: : Bravery of the wives of two army officers who were staying in the family quarters helped in averting a major hostage crisis during the encounter that took place in Nagrota area of Jammu yesterday. Soon after the heavily armed terrorists disguised in police uniform entered an army...

The best video you'll see on the Independence Day! Separatists hoisted Pakistan flag in Burhan Wani's hometown in J&K. A Rashtriya Rifle soldier is ordered by his commander to take action. See what he does.. JAI HIND!

Times Now Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami opened a can of worms yesterday. He did not name anyone, but he made his target clear. He was on the aggressive, attacking “pseudo-liberals”, some of whom are within the media. He attacked those “who have been trying to echo the Pakistani line, in the...

Rajnath Singh+ gave away the cold statistics of injuries+ in this month's violent protests+ across the valley, constable Mudasir Ahmed fell to his wounds, the second cop to die in street conflicts. Around 2,228 policemen and more than 1,100 CRPF personnel have been injured along with 2,259...

Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were killed in an overnight encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district, an army official said on Thursday. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dadsara area of Tral last night, following information about the...

The "Make in India" summit in Mumbai that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the weekend has closed with $222 billion or Rs. 15.2 lakh crore in investment pledges. Amitabh Kant, Secretary of India's Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), said he expected 80-85 per...

Starting as a maker of hydraulic pumps, the Bengaluru-based company graduated to components for automakers like BMW and Audi, and then Airbus and Boeing Driving into Dynamatic Technologies' production facilities, an hour from central Bengaluru, is a transition from the grey anonymity of an...

India is seeking to boost arms exports 20- fold in a decade to $3 billion, a push that if successful would transform one of the world's biggest importers into a major seller of defense equipment. Steps by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spur defense manufacturing, if properly implemented, open...

'Checkmating India by its nukes, Pakistan can pursue terrorism against India in the Kashmir Valley and also resume launching Mumbai 2008 style attacks.' 'The military oligarchy in Pakistan has a totally different view of what is desirable and possible in the subcontinent,' says Lieutenant...

NEW DELHI: India and Japan are set to firm up an agreement on highspeed train services, widely referred to as 'Bullet Trains', during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit next week. Senior government sources told ET that Abe's Special Adviser Hiroto Izumi will be in Delhi this week for...

Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour has died of injuries, Afghanistan officials confirmed on Friday. Mansour was critically injured in a gunfight on Wednesday in an argument with commanders in the militant group, Xinhua quoted Afghanistan officials as saying. The incident came as the group...

Srinagar: The Army is today honouring Colonel Santosh Mahadik who was killed on Tuesday in a fierce gunbattle with terrorists in the forests of Kupwara in north Kashmir. The 38-year-old Colonel of the Army's elite Para Commando force was the Commanding Officer of 41 Rashtriya Rifles. He was...

NEW DELHI: Barely had the row over his remarks on Paris attacks faded that senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar once again courted controversy on Tuesday by asking for the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to solve the Kashmir dispute. "Hamein le aaiye, inhein hataiye (Bring in the...

Despite criticism for not having spent enough on new projects, the railway minister has been quick to initiate reforms in some of the Railway's biggest problem areas, says Sudheer Pal Singh. IMAGE: The PMO has rapped Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu for slow progress on key projects. Photograph...

In the history of Indian railway budgets, Suresh Prabhu will perhaps be the first railway minister not to have announced either a single new train or a new railway line, notes A K Bhattacharya. Suresh Prabhu, a recent entrant to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is yet to complete a year as the...

Defence ministry incompetence hobbles development of battle-taxis for the Indian Army, discovers Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: The Future Infantry Combat Vehicle project was approved in 2008, but has seen practically no progress since then Incompetence dogs the defence ministry's plan to harness Indian...

A fortnight after he became the face of the Indian soldier in the Kargil war, on July 8, 1999, Vikram Batra died. He was mortally wounded after fighting through the night while recapturing Peak 4875. He was ill, but had insisted that he was fit for the mission and completed it in a manner that...