By A Correspondent Bengaluru (Karnataka): India’s state-run Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has achieved a turnover of Rs. 5643.25 crore (US$651 million), registering a growth of 36.97% during the third quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal over its Rs. 4120.10 crore (US$475 million) recorded in the corresponding period of the […]
By A Correspondent Kochi (Kerala): India’s state-run Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) on Jan. 20, 2025, laid the keel for the Indian Navy‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC). This is the seventh vessel under an eight-vessel contract awarded to CSL by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on […]
By A Correspondent Kolkata (January 29, 2025):Â India’s state-run defence shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hyderabad-based Indian private defence firm Apollo Micro Systems Limited (AMS) to establish a strategic collaboration for the joint development and supply of advanced […]
By N. C. Bipindra Mumbai: Indian firm JSW Defence Private Limited, part of the US$24-billion JSW Group, today announced a “strategic partnership” with Shield AI Inc., a leading American defence technology company, to indigenise and manufacture Shield AI’s ‘V-BAT‘ fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in India. “This collaboration […]
By N. C. Bipindra Hyderabad (India): Indian precision manufacturing firm Raghu Vamsi Group, a tier 1 supplier to global aerospace majors such as Boeing Co. and GE Aviation, has fully acquired the PMC Group in the United Kingdom to strengthen its core capabilities and expand to the oil […]
By N. C. Bipindra As a rookie in journalism three decades ago, the first lesson given to us by our seniors and editors was that ‘Dog bites man is not news, but man bites dog is, and that is a goldmine.’ Many of us, who have transitioned from […]
By A Correspondent New Delhi: In the regular Union Budget of Financial Year (FY) 2024-25 presented by India’s Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been allocated Rs 6,21,940.85 crore (approx. US$75 billion), the highest allocation among Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
By N. C. Bipindra With the changing sea line of communication and the economy’s eastward shift, maritime security has become one of the most substantial economic and human security pillars. Since the 2004 tsunami, the Indian Navy has consistently proven itself as the first responder to any crisis […]
By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: Sweden’s Saab announced today that it is setting up a production facility in India for its legendary Carl-Gustaf shoulder-fired recoilless rifle’s latest variant through the 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment route. The Swedish defence firm’s senior officials said they were hopeful of […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times Over 200 Indian-origin Jews from the Bnei Menashe community, who migrated to Israel in the recent past, have joined the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for active or reserve duty in the war on the Palestinian group Hamas since the October 7 […]
By T. S. Shankar Chennai: A city-based company has achieved a key milestone by fabricating critical hardware for India’s human space flight mission, handing over two crew model structures for testing to the government space agency. KCP Goup’s Heavy Engineering division, also based in Chennai, had produced the […]
By T. S. Shankar Mumbai-based Jet Airways and its founder-chairman Naresh Goyal are hogging the media limelight for his business acumen in building a world-class private airline capitalising on the then Indian government’s ‘open sky policy’ in the early 1990s and then destroying it on a whim. Naresh […]
By Sakshi Tiwari for EurAsian Times New Delhi: India has finally secured the delivery of its first C-295 aircraft, two years after the country signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space to acquire 56 of these transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The deal was […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times India officially declared itself a nuclear weapons state in May 1998 following the ‘Shakti’ nuclear tests in the Rajasthan desert, popularly called Pokhran-II. But it spelled out its official nuclear doctrine for the first time publicly in January 2003 through a […]
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times August 1 marks the 96th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The world’s largest military, the PLA, comprises over two million military personnel with an annual budget of $224.8 billion. However, despite the numbers and the resources, newfound aggressive strategy, […]
