New Delhi: The Smart World and Communication Business of Indian major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has bagged a a large order from the Indian Army for establishing a first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art Unified Network Management System to ‘manage, support and operate’ the countrywide Armed Forces Network under […]
By Kartik Bommakanti The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it would be indefinitely postponing the launch of its GISAT-1 Earth Observation (EO) weather satellite. The launch, which was originally scheduled for Mar. 5. 2020 has now been indefinitely postponed by the ISRO. Although the ISRO did […]
By Lt Gen. P. C. Katoch COVID-19 has stormed the world with fatalities in thousands and over 100,000 infected in 124 countries. Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act, says COVID-19 is an offensive Biological Warfare (BW) Weapon that WHO knows about. Bio-war is part of […]
New Delhi: India today signed a contract with Israel Weapon Industries for buying 16,479 of its ‘Negev‘ light machine guns, meeting a long-standing need to modernise standard issue weapons for its armed forces. “The Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence has signed the capital acquisition contract with Israel […]
New Delhi: Exemptions under Customs Duty and Goods and Service Tax on defence equipment bought by Indian armed forces could save up to Rs 60,000 crore ($8.5 billion) of the military budget over a five-year period, the Economic Times reported today. This saving could be used by the […]
Snap Shot* Minister assures further reduction in tax for defence sector* Invitation extended to French arms industry to help in aeroengines Paris: India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh today said India and France intend to explore ways to strengthen their defence industrial partnership. Addressing the Chief Executive Officers […]
New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Defence has made projections to the 15th Finance Commission for budgetary support to fund the armed forces’ modernisation projects. The commission, headed by former bureacraft N. K. Singh, held a meeting with the defence ministry officials led by Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh […]
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’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said terrorism and proxy war pose a threat to the entire world, while those nations defeated in wars were now resorting to proxy war and supporting terrorism to achieve their political objectives. Addressing an even to mark the 20th anniversary […]