New Delhi: The government has decided to install Radiation Detection Equipment (RDE) at all eight Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) on the country’s borders with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal, to detect smuggling of radioactive...
New Delhi: From theatre commands to integrated battle groups that will make the military more efficient for modern warfare, to the role of women and tours of duty that could allow citizens to join...
New Delhi: Even as the nation celebrates the fifty years of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war which led to formation of Bangladesh, the spectre of the plight of 834 Indian defence personnel who are reportedly...
New Delhi: The Central Armed Police forces of India (CAPF) would for the first time be equipped with Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) marked level 5 bulletproof jackets in line with Prime Minister Narendra...
New Delhi: In yet another significant development, the Supreme Court in an interim order on August 18 allowed women candidates to take the National Defence Academy examination, scheduled to be held on September 5,...
New Delhi: The disengagement between India and China in the Gogra Heights area of eastern Ladakh has been completed and both sides are back to their permanent bases, the government said August 12. During...
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said August 11 that a tunnel would be constructed like the Atal Tunnel’ under the river Brahmapura at a cost of around Rs 4,000-5,000 crore.
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RENTON, Wash.The first of five Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft for Norway performed its maiden flight yesterday, August 9. The aircraft took off at 10:03 a.m. Pacific time and flew for 2 hours, 24 minutes,...
New Delhi: Army chief General M. M. Naravane has called for a “revolution in bureaucratic affairs” and spoke out against procedural lacunae in the defence procurement process because of what he called the ‘Zero...
New Delhi: Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed and black-topped the highest motorable road in the world at 19,300 ft at Umlingla Pass in Eastern Ladakh, creating a record in high-altitude road construction. It...
New Delhi: The fortnight long 12th Edition of Indo-Russia joint military Exercise INDRA 2021 will be held at Volgograd, Russia from August 1 to 13. The exercise will entail conduct of counter terror operations...
New Delhi: As part of its exercise to step security measures along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the Sino-Indian border, the Indian Army has now deployed motion-sensitive cameras and sensors to monitor...
New Delhi: The nation today led by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, President Ram Nath Kovind, along with chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat, today paid homage to the Kargil War...