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 […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated with Australian government’s reaction to the Exercise MALABAR invitation from paragraphs 10 to 14.) New Delhi: The first thought that comes to mind when one hears Australia is joining the trilateral India–United States–Japan maritime exercise later this year: Is QUAD, conceived as a purely diplomatic […]
New Delhi: India‘s lone submarine builder had a dream-like debut on the stock market today, finishing the opening trading day at Rs 173, a cool 19 per cent above its Initial Public Offering (IPO) price of Rs 145, strongly aided by its above par financial performance over the […]
New Delhi: An alert and sharply intuitive operation by India’s coast guard has averted a major shipping and environment disaster off Sri Lanka this month that had threatened ecological degradation along the South Asian giant’s southern coast, the island nation’s eastern coast and the Maldivian atolls. The Indian […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to push India’s strategic-economic interests in the Indo-Pacific Region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched an ambitious project that will connect the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the mainland through an undersea Optic Fibre Cable (OFC). The Indian Ocean Region […]
New Delhi: India has been recognized and appreciated by the international maritime body for its decision on accession to the international convention on recycling of ships with all global environment safety standards. The convention does not cover warships. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), at its ongoing 31st session […]
