In 1940 legendary Indian industrialist Walchand Hirachand struck a deal with an American businessman to produce combat aircraft in India. One of the investors in the project was the Maharaja of Mysore who agreed to...
On 14 July 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked his special presence as the guest of honour at the majestic Bastille Day Parade in Paris. The parade commemorates the French Revolution and its foundational...
New Delhi: Indian Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar, August 10 met German Air Force Chief Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz and discussed new avenues of collaboration towards bolstering defence cooperation.
On the social media account...
"Gujarat has the potential to develop as a major defence manufacturing hub in the days to come,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while inaugurating the 12th DefExpo 2022 in Gandhinagar.
Gujarat has the right ingredients to...
New Delhi: The move by the Narendra Modi government to hike Foreign Direct Investment limit to 74 per cent in the defence sector has been welcomed by French firm Naval Group saying it will...
New Delhi. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has called for an increased participation of the private sector in defence manufacturing to realise the Government’s vision of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024.
In...
New Delhi: There have been 1,586 incidents of ceasefire violations in 2019 and 646 incidents of ceasefire violations during the first two months of 2020 up to February 23, on Indo-Pak International border as...
New Delhi: With a view to boosting defence exports and defence cooperation with more countries, the Narendra Modi government has plans to appoint at least 10 new Defence Attachés (DAs) while identifying such countries.
Defence...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on January 16 flagged off 51st K9 VAJRA-T Gun from Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Armoured System Complex at Hazira in Gujarat.
Addressing a gathering on the occasion, he...
New Delhi: In a move to boost domestic defence production, the government plans to announce several steps under a policy to be unveiled in about a month, defence production secretary Subhash Chandra said on...
New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed defence offset contracts with a cumulative value of US$ 5.67 billion in the last three years, Lok Sabha was told on November 20.
In a written...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on November 19 exhorted manufacturing companies participating at the Defence & Security Exhibition 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand to become part of Make in India reaffirming the Government’s commitment...
The steel-cutting ceremony of the first defence and intervention frigate (FDI) took place on the Naval Group site of Lorient. The ceremony was led in the presence of the Minister for Armed Forces, Florence...