New Delhi: To provide an impetus to self-reliance theme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India today made public a draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020, reiterating the already stated policy guidelines such as arms manufacturing target of Rs 175,000 crore ($25 billion), including Rs 35,000 crore […]
New Delhi: To enable live firing practice of air defence weapons on simulated targets for its soldiers, the Indian Army has launched a search for Indian vendors to indigenously design and develop Manoeuvrable Expendable Arial Targets, which could manoeuvre like a real target. The Directorate General of Army […]
New Delhi: The historic moment for which India and obviously the Asian neighbourhood was waiting for came true today at the Ambala air base, when the five Rafale combat jets from France touched down to a rousing welcome from the cantonment city’s general public. The five Rafales — […]
New Delhi: India today launched a contest for defence innovator and startups, to mark the fifth death anniversary of its tallest military scientist and former President Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) opened its second edition of the ‘Dare to Dream […]
New Delhi/Saint-Cloud (France): As we write this, India‘s air force pilots are flying the five Rafale jets from Dassault Aviation‘s Mérignac facility to the Ambala air base, covering around 7,000 km with a stop over at the United Arab Emirates. The first five Rafale combat aircraft in Indian […]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: India’s crude oil import from the United States, the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbon, is set to rise in the future, as the Asia’s third largest economy is looking at diversifying its energy sourcing to meet future challenges. The US, battered by the […]
New Delhi: Vistara, a full-service carrier, has got delivery of its first Airbus A321Neo that offers India’s first flatbed on a narrow-body aircraft. The addition to the Vistara fleet would help the Tata Sons Limited and Singapore Airlines Limited joint venture airline to expand its international operations. The […]
New Delhi: The United States is negotiating a joint development project for an air-launched drone with India involving both nations’ armed forces and defence research agencies, an American official from the Pentagon has said. At the ‘India Ideas Summit‘ organised by the US-India Business Council yesterday, the official […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched India as one of the most attractive global investment destination and urged American multinational companies and corporate sector to pump in money into key sectors such as defence, aviation, infrastructure, technology, agriculture and other manufacturing industries. Modi […]
New Delhi: India is searching for an Indian vendor to design, develop and manufacture Minefield Recording Systems (MRS) based on Global Positioning System (GIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) to prevent casualties among personnel during de-mining operations in the borders with adversarial neighbours. The current requirement projected is […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Five fully-armed Rafale combat aircraft from France will reach India by end of this month and will be ready for deployment from August. The news comes as a boost to the morale of the Indian armed forces facing an irresponsible and expansionist […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on July 21 at 3:00 pm with BEML statement on more details of the contract at paragraph eight.) New Delhi: India today (July 20) said it has signed a Rs 557-crore ($75-million) deal with a state-run enterprise for 1,512 mine ploughs for the army’s Russian-origin […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: Imitation is the best form of flattery. And in a first, India is trying to set up a system to manage its energy data, energy modeling and low carbon technologies on the lines of the United States. As part of the India-US Strategic […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India today forcefully condemned Pakistan‘s continuous attempts to carry out China-backed construction projects in the Indian territories illegally occupied by it such as Gilgit-Baltistan. The Indian response came after Pakistan started construction activity at the Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan region of India’s […]
Hyderabad: Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Limited (TLMAL), a joint venture between Indian major Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and American defence giant Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, today said it has appointed Kiran Dambala as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Dambala assumes this position from the outgoing TLMAL COO Abhay Paranjape, […]
