(Editor’s Note: This is a partnered post for a television show series that Defence.Capital is a part of.) Atmanirbhar Bharat, a clarion call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeks to put India on a path of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, making the nation a bigger and more important […]
Larsen & Toubro’s whole-time director and senior executive vice president (defence and smart technologies) J. D. Patil, in this exclusive interview, tells Defence.Capital editor N. C. Bipindra that lack of warship building orders is killing India’s private sector shipyards. Ques. Please provide our readers with an overview of […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India may be the world’s second largest arms importer, but its defence market is a notoriously difficult domain to achieve a breakthrough. Airbus SE has not won a single defence order in India in the last half a century. That zero order […]
By Dr S. Jaishankar We are all here virtually to remember Manohar Parrikar, who would have turned 65 years old today. It is natural for us to express our feelings and recall our associations. I myself had the opportunity of working with him as Foreign Secretary. Quite apart […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan The 1950–1951 invasion of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army resulted in significant changes in the Chinese relationship with […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Lieutenant General (Dr) V. K. Saxena From the perspective of self-reliance and ‘Atmnirbhar Bharat‘, India has a reason to cheer in the festive […]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s decision to offload up to 15 per cent of its share in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has met with opposition from employees of India’s lone, state-run aircraft manufacturer. But industry veterans feel a gradual disinvestment of the nation’s aerospace […]
New Delhi: India and Nepal are two nations with one people and for this reason alone, both sides should work on resolving their differences, including the border row, through talks, and work towards a positive transformation in ties, leading experts from both the nations have said. They were […]
New Delhi: India and the United States today signed a long-pending agreement for geospatial cooperation that will provide a deadlier edge to Indian missile systems, even as they decided to hold the inaugural Industrial Security Annex (ISA) summit later this year to further cement the two nation’s defence […]
New Delhi: India and the United States today said they will sign a geospatial cooperation agreement tomomrrow that enables sharing of critical satellite communications and data to improve their military interoperability. A statement released by India’s Ministry of Defence after a delegation meeting between Minister of Defence Rajnath […]
New Delhi: India has released its defence research agency’s procurement manual for 2020 that is aimed at increasing the scope of participation of local industry in military products development. Though the release ceremony was held on Oct. 20 with Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh formally announcing the launch […]
New Delhi: India is ready to sign a key geospatial cooperation agreement with the United States later this month that will firmly set their strategic relationship in the Indo-Pacific region, where both are threatened by a common rival in China. India is likely to put a seal of […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated at 9 am today with expert opinions on the defence export trend all over the article.) New Delhi: India could achieve just about 25 per cent of its $2-billion defence export target in the first six months of this fiscal that began Apr. 2020, hit […]
New Delhi: India today notified its Directorate General of Shipping as the national authority for recycling of ships under a year-old law that governs this key environment polluting activity. The National Authority of Ship Recycling will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The notification was issued in this […]
New Delhi: Just a week after India‘s new defence procurement rules came into force, the Narendra Modi government today said it has abolished the Banking Offset provisions for arms deals with foreign companies worth over Rs 2,000 crore (~$273 million), where offset is mandatory. The Ministry of Defence, […]