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 […]
In the United Nations General Assembly session of 2015, China introduced its vision of a world order called “Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”. The vision document contained a lot of high-principled words such as consultation, dialogue, inclusivity, consensus, and cooperation but was vague and ambiguous on […]
New Delhi: India and China will hold a military commanders’ meet next week to further thrash out differences over the disengagement of their army soldiers along the Ladakh de facto border, which is yet to be completed. The need for the military talks were felt, as the Chinese […]
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 […]
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 Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: The United States Congress has now backed India‘s tough stance against China‘s aggression along the de factor border in eastern Ladakh. Days after US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo slammed China for showing aggression in Ladakh and South China Sea, and backed […]
(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: Pakistan is keeping India‘s western border hot and is opening a new confrontation, even as the Indian armed forces are tackling a military conflict with China on its northern borders. Pakistan has been indulging in unprovoked firing on Indian positions and on civilian […]
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 […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: For the first time since the June 15 military clash with China in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh that left soldiers dead on either side, India today sent out a very strong signal to its northern neighbour that “any unilateral change” […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Indian Army statement at paragraph 16 and a Ministry of External Affairs add-on statement at paragraph 23.) New Delhi: India held a meeting of the China Study Group, a formal gathering of senior Indian government officials, last evening to consider the marathon 15-hour discussion […]
(Editor’s Note: The currency conversion in paragraph one has be corrected to reflect accurate figure in US Dollars.) New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today delegated financial powers up to Rs 300 crore ($40 million) to the armed forces to make emergency procurement of weapons and equipment to […]
New Delhi: It takes a China wake-up call in the Ladakh borders for the Indian Army to finally buy some fire power in light battle tanks for use against the nation’s enemy forces at high altitude battlefields. Amidst China amassing its battle tanks at the Debsang plains, Indian […]
New Delhi: India and China today agreed that ensuring peace between the two nations was the end state to be achieved in their bilateral relations so that there is no future military confrontation on the borders, as witnessed in Ladakh for the last 65 days now. At a […]
New Delhi: Amidst the two-month military face-off with China, India has quietly armed itself with all 22 Boeing Co. Apache gunships, a powerful weapon-delivery platform now being deployed in eastern Ladakh to showcase Indian intent to fight back. The Apache attack helicopters, designed for all kinds of missions, […]
