New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence today said it doesn’t intend to privatise the 41 ordnance factories, but only provide it a corporate character to ensure efficiency in their functioning. At a meeting between the ministry officials’ committee and labour union leaders today, in continuation of a similar […]
Pokhran (Rajasthan): India today hinted that its nuclear weapons doctrine of ‘no first use’ against a rival could change based on future circumstances. Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh, after paying homage to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajyapee at the nuclear weapons testing site here, told reporters that […]
New Delhi: India will soon have a single-point military adviser for the government to ensure better synergy among the four armed forces of the nation in planning their future. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the creation of the post of Chief of Defence Staff, most possibly a four-star […]
New Delhi: India is trying to prevent its 164,000 employees of its 41 ordnance factories that manufacture weapons for its 1.4-million armed forces from going on a strike from August 20. The labour unions of the 41 ordnance factories had issued a notice to the Ordnance Factory Board […]
New Delhi: India has reserved defence modernisation projects worth 500 billion rupees ($7 billion) for startup, Department of Defence Production Joint Secretary Sanjay Jaju said today. At a Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers seminar on ‘Startups-Cutting Edge for Technology Infusion into Defence’ here, Jaju said the Government of […]
By General Bipin Rawat, India’s Chief of Army Staff Snap Shot Have to look beyond state-owned military production, research efforts Startups, Corporate have to join hands for technology infusion Mechanism being worked out for startup involvement in defence sector The Government of India has spoken a lot about […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is planning to boost defence exports from the current 107-billion rupees ($1.5 billion) to friendly foreign nations by taking the help of the private sector in arms production. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who met with nearly 45 public and private aerospace and […]
Tezpur (Assam): India’s air force lost a Sukhoi combat jet today when it crashed soon after take off from an airbase here. The two pilots ejected to safety just ahead of the aircraft going down. The Su-30 aircraft was on a routine training mission from Tezpur when it […]
New Delhi: To promote ‘Make in India‘ in defence and aerospace, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will interact with top industry leaders at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, here tomorrow. India’s Ministry of Defence, under the aegis of Department of Defence Production, will host the ’roundtable’, a statement from the government […]
New Delhi: India today approved the procurement of next generation long range maritime mobile coastal batteries that would use the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to deliver warhead on inimical forces. The Indian Navy would operate the missile batteries. The decision came at the Defence Acquisition Council meet, the […]
Saint-Cloud (France): Dassault Aviation recently took the top position in two of the business aviation industry’s leading gauges of customer satisfaction, the Aviation International News (AIN) and ProPilot product support surveys. The top ranking, after several straight second and third place finishes, follows a multi-year effort to establish […]
New Delhi: Advanced flight bookings to airports around the holy city of Mecca ahead of this year’s Hajj have increased from Asia, Europe and Oceania, according to research by Travelport, a technology company serving the global travel industry. According to an analysis, India (44,611) had the second highest […]
Pune: Avasara Leadership Institute announced the launch of the Honeywell Center for Advancing Girls in Science, a transformative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program for bright, young girls in middle and high school. Funded by Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), the programme will empower 500 Avasara […]
Chandipur (Balasore, Odisha): India today successfully flight-tested indigenous Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (or QRSAM) against live targets, validating the technology. India’s Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) tested the missiles against an aerial target, this time a Meggitt‘s Banshee target drone for aerial target practice, from the Integrated Test […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is working towards finding solutions to the rogue drones menace, as witnessed in Venezuala a year ago when President Nicolas Maduro was targetted with explosives, in an effort to protect critical national assets. The government has constituted a task force under the […]
