Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

  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...

New Delhi. In a move to boost the defence sector, the government is likely to hike Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to 74 per cent from the existing 49 per cent and boost local production...

  Taking place in the backdrop of the abrogation of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir and creation of Union Territories of the border state, the Second Informal Summit between...

New Delhi: In a move to encourage startups in defence procurement, the government has notified special exceptions which would encourage them to bid for contracts valued less than Rs 150 crore without the burden...

  New Delhi. In keeping with the government’s policy of encouraging private participation in the Defence sector and as part of “Make in India” policy, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that the procedure for exports...

Shibdas Bhattacharjee in his recently published Book, “Modi’s Rule and India’s Unbound Opportunities: Narrative of the Substantives and Beyond” outlines manifold Opportunities evolved in India and the performance of Modi-led government in availing those...

  In 1957, while speaking on the defence budget in the Lok Sabha, well-known Gandhian J.B. Kripalani said, “The mounting expenses on the Army must be cut down. The followers of Gandhi and adherents of...

  PARIS. The French defence procurement agency DGA (Direction générale del’armement) has awarded the RIFAN 2.1 contract to an industrial consortium headed by Airbus and also comprising the Naval Group and Rohde & Schwarz. This...

  BENGALURU. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the 12th biennial edition of International Aerospace and Defence Exhibition and declared the Aero India 2019 open amid a lot of fanfare at Air Force Station Yelahanka in...

MORE THAN four years after the prime minster gave the call to convert India into a manufacturing hub while delivering his first Independence Day speech, there is little evidence of the ‘Make in India’...