Bengaluru/New Delhi: India‘s lone aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed up a $54-million deal with digital technology company Tech Mahindra to implement a project for overhaul of its business operations. In a statement, HAL said it has got Tech Mahindra for a Rs 400-crore ($54-million) contract […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India signing a deal for 93,895 Close Quarter Battle carbines will be a key milestone for United Arab Emirates‘ CARACAL to invest 49 per cent in a Joint Venture with a domestic manufacturer with full technology transfer, the company’s top executive has […]
New Delhi: India today approved the procurement of 72,000 American-origin assault rifles at a cost of $100 million for arming its infantry soldiers, amidst a raging military conflict in northern border with China. This SIG SAUER‘s SIG716 7.62-mm assault rifles purchase is the second tranche of acquisition of […]
New Delhi: With an eye on China and Pakistan, India is all set to place an order for 30 armed drones for nearly $3 billion from the United States, in a deal that will be the first for American firm General Atomics from the South Asian giant. Indian-American […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: In a clear indication of its strong will and intent to push ahead with the corporatisation of the state-run ordnance factories, India’s Narendra Modi government today set up a very powerful group of ministers headed by heavyweights such as Rajnath Singh and […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated on Sep. 11 with additional background information throughout the report, filed originally on Sep. 10.) By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Already interoperable through the annual joint Malabar maritime exercise with Japan, India has expanded its strategic reach in the Indo-Pacific by signing a logistic […]
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: 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 […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. The writer is a Defence.Capital reader and a military affairs enthusiast. For his other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Rohit Verma The ongoing impasse between India and China at the Line of […]
The loss of nearly 20 Indian Army personnel in the savage attack by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the night of June 15 is a turning point in India–China relations. As the facts of what transpired at Patrol Point 14 in the Galwan Valley emerged, it became […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today clarified the nation had lost no territory to China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, amidst a continuing border face-off between the militaries of nuclear-armed Asian neighbors. Indian Army had lost 20 of […]
New Delhi: India’s top officer responsible for defence acquisition has just dropped the bomb: The recently announced hike in the country’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms to 74 per cent will not apply to the Strategic Partnership programmes that the armed forces are pursuing. This is big — […]
New Delhi: The Smart World and Communication Business of Indian major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has bagged a a large order from the Indian Army for establishing a first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art Unified Network Management System to ‘manage, support and operate’ the countrywide Armed Forces Network under […]
By Kartik Bommakanti The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it would be indefinitely postponing the launch of its GISAT-1 Earth Observation (EO) weather satellite. The launch, which was originally scheduled for Mar. 5. 2020 has now been indefinitely postponed by the ISRO. Although the ISRO did […]
By Lt Gen. P. C. Katoch COVID-19 has stormed the world with fatalities in thousands and over 100,000 infected in 124 countries. Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act, says COVID-19 is an offensive Biological Warfare (BW) Weapon that WHO knows about. Bio-war is part of […]
