At Rs 5,93,538 crore, the total defence outlay for the financial year (FY) 2023-24, including the outlay of Rs 1,38,205 crore for defence pensions, represents a 13.02% year-on-year growth over […]

The primary, if not the only, expectation the armed forces have from the union budget is that the finance minister will pull a rabbit out of the hat and allocate […]

Delivering a talk at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan recently, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine needs NATO’s continued support for as long as it takes, because if […]

The exhilarated motto “India First, Citizen First” is indeed as inspirational as “Today’s era must not be of war”, yet devoid of the geo-political context and realities of threats to […]

Wars – in the future – may not just be fought with weapons and physical strength. There was a time when armies could only kill or harm enemies they could […]

New Delhi: With tensions continuing along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the Line of Control (LOC) with China and Pakistan, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave the […]

Significant Expectations As the general budget will be presented in the parliament today, significant expectations are riding on the defence segment. The country has seen some steady growth as far […]

Ahead of the presentation of Union budget in Parliament on February 1, India’s defence sector deserves to be in the spotlight due to increased volatility with belligerent neighbours. That apart, […]

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” said Albert Einstein. This grim observation was made […]

New Delhi: The three-day visit to India by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was indeed a boost to relations between nations which spawned the oldest civilizations and in contemporary international […]

New Delhi: The 74th Republic Day parade amid much pomp and colour had many firsts to its credit with it being held for the first time at the ceremonial Central […]

Now a day, many nations have embarked on the path of creating a Civil-Military Fusion (CMF).  Basically, dual-use technologies and collaborations lies at the heart of any civil-military confluence. It […]